Blessing of the Siberian Jay
Fly, fly poor bird, fly here to these lands. To small trees, low lands, reach for the branches, spread out on the sprigs! Wait there, my birdie, wait at the feet of the branch.
While the Siberian Jay was mostly a bird of good fortune and spirituality to some its appearance meant misfortune. It was believed that the Siberian Jay could hold a lot of things, such as human souls. Typically it was believed that the souls that passed on into a Siberian jay were hunters, witches, people who had gotten lost and died in the forest. Sometimes the deceased were given a wooden jay figurine as a memento.
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