scald-crow
Britishnoun
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As we ran out of Killoge, at something near thirty miles an hour, I heard scald-crow laughter behind me in the shawls.
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She concluded with a chuckle that might have been uttered by a scald-crow.
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With another scald-crow chuckle she turned to Casey.
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He may have been a war-god, like the scald-crow goddesses of Ireland, and he is also spoken of in the Triads as an "obstructor of slaughter" or "support of battle."
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Badb means "a scald-crow," under which form the war-goddesses appeared, probably because these birds were seen near the slain.
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