Throughout the northern hemisphere, the crow has been revered by traditional societies, from Native American peoples to the Celts. All have seen in this bird with its hoarse cry and black plumage Satan, rowdy and a little scavenger, a demiurge and a creator of the world as well as a messenger of the gods. Third in a fascinating illustrated series that the French medieval historian Michel Pastoureau (Blue. History of a color) dedicated to the bestiary of European cultural history (after the wolf and the bull), The crow. A cultural history is interested in this bird which has long sown fear and aversion in the countryside, inspiring in passing many fables, legends and artists. But do we know that the crow is also a top of the class? Already highlighted by Pliny and Plutarch in Antiquity, his insight and great intelligence are no longer in doubt today. Tests conducted on some of its complex cognitive abilities have shown that the crow can even be the equal of great apes. A way for him to take his revenge.
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