for the birds
May. 7th, 2016 11:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marycatelliDoing a crowd scene. Of birds. And hunting for folkloric bird-brides.
Swans, of course. Doves. Golden peahens -- and ordinary colored ones, too. However analogous they are, selkies don't fit. (Perhaps they feature in the world, but not in this crowd.) Falcons, ravens, and eagles for guys (a la Marya Morevna), but fewer of them.
Did a little research and picked up geese and cranes as well, before reminding myself that I could research more later for some oddballs. (though I may need at least one tropical bird -- not a parrot, because parrots can talk, which is inappropriate for thematic reasons.)
Swans, of course. Doves. Golden peahens -- and ordinary colored ones, too. However analogous they are, selkies don't fit. (Perhaps they feature in the world, but not in this crowd.) Falcons, ravens, and eagles for guys (a la Marya Morevna), but fewer of them.
Did a little research and picked up geese and cranes as well, before reminding myself that I could research more later for some oddballs. (though I may need at least one tropical bird -- not a parrot, because parrots can talk, which is inappropriate for thematic reasons.)
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Date: 2016-05-13 11:01 pm (UTC)...Meanwhile I am remembering the one with the bird-prince whose father found him a bride by carrying around a flower until he found another man looking for one like it for his daughter, and his subsequent rather perplexing decision to sneak in through her window after her father agreed to have them meet.
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Date: 2016-05-14 12:12 am (UTC)And was the fairy tale The Feather of Finist the Falcon?
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Date: 2016-05-14 05:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-05-14 04:07 pm (UTC)