Courtesy of the University of Aberdeen

#7- Nature’s Darling

We examine the Halcyon, which nests at the winter solstice with magical effect.

 Sources 

  

Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epigraphica, 1646.


 John Milton, “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity.”

Ovid, “Ceyx  and Halcyone” inMetamorphoses IX.