Crow Curse
By Mary Catelli
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An ancestor's folly, stealing from a dead wizard, left them all turning to crows daily and bitterly attacking any of their number who stole from the dead.
Yet a dying wizard may hold the key of escape. . . .
Mary Catelli
Mary Catelli is an avid reader of fantasy, science fiction, history, fairy tales, philosophy, folklore and a lot of other things. (Including the backs of cereal boxes.) Which, in due course, overflowed into writing fantasy (and some science fiction).
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Crow Curse - Mary Catelli
Crow Curse
Fritha stood by the edge of the pond, looking out over the rushes and the waters reflecting the half-full moon, and sulked. It wasn't theft,
she thought; the hermit had said to take the books after he died.
Fritha scowled, tossing back her dark brown curls from her pale, square face. The books hadn't been on his body, anyway.
The moon climbed a little higher, and the hour came. Fritha cawed and spread her black wings. She flew to perch on the nearest bush. Maybe,
she thought, bleakly, Isobel had a point; the wizard who had laid the curse, all those generations ago, might, God willing, decide they had learned to not steal from the bodies of the dead—but something that looked like stealing would change his mind.
The rest of the murder lifted up, cawing. Fritha glared at them. Off to steal all the seed Farmer William had planted, she thought in disgust; Lord have mercy on us all. She flew off. The wizard had not reappeared in seven generations, and while wizards lived long lives, they did not live that long. And neither Isobel nor any other of the crow folk could cast the first stone about theft.
Curses on Simon, anyway, Fritha thought, settling on a dead tree; it was his fault his family was cursed, and he was so old that he had only lived with the curse a couple of years. Fritha ruffled her feathers and wished she could leave the marsh, but where in the world could she go? One of their foolish young men had seduced a woman in the nearest village. His baby had been beaten to death after the first