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The raven's dark reputation

"The Raven," Edgar Allan Poe's dark tale of death and a grieving lover haunted by the hovering presence of an ominous black bird, bolstered the raven's reputation as a symbol of death and the supernatural in popular culture and folklore. Jan Crawford explores the truth about the bird, which is intelligent and even artistic.
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