Sacred Texts: Wicca and Neo-Paganism

Part Two: Chapter II--BIRDS AND TREASURES

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No one knows better than a bird of the air Where treasures are concealed." ARISTOPHANES, The Birds IT was an ancient belief in many countries that the birds knew all things, and, as OVID says, announce the will of the gods, because they are near them; that is, they fly to heaven, or as SENECA expresses it, "Birds are inspired by the divinities." And it was especially an old Etrusco-Latin, as well as a Greek conviction, that they knew where treasure was concealed…

Part Two: Chapter II--BIRDS AND TREASURES

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