Is Clava crow find a Hallowe'en sacrifice?

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A DEAD crow has sparked fears of macabre goings on at a prehistoric burial site on the outskirts of Inverness. The bird was found at a standing stone surrounding one of the burial chambers at the Clava Cairns, just south of Culloden.

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‘Any witches, pagans or druids I have read about certainly wouldn’t kill an innocent creature - any creature for that matter - for ritual, or use dead animals.

‘But the position of the dead crow suggests it must have been arranged that way soon after it was killed, before rigor mortis set in. Could somebody have been using it for some kind of black magic?’

He said that one of the reasons crows are associated with death is that they are carrion birds and would follow armies for miles and miles, but added: ‘They are greatly misunderstood birds and I have a great fondness for them.’

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