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Birders

okasha

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3. They are a warning

Reply to fadedrose (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 12, 2014, 01:52 AM

Mar 2014

of impending death. A person who "hears the owl call his name" will die. The motif was used in the novel "I Heard the Owl Call My Name" and in the film "Thunderheart"to foreshadow the teacher's death.

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