This is not really a blog , more like a request for opinions really – A couple of months ago I thought of a possible identity for the flying snakes said to haunt the Pennlyn Castle area of S.Wales – peacocks. This is because these flying snakes were said to be bejewelled rather like the brilliance of the peacocks feathers and also because of the snake-like appearance of the peacocks neck. I know it’s a long shot, but...
What do you thinks? Also, in Britain at least, the peacock has been kept as a pet, perhaps at one point they were kept as pets at the Castle? The peacock was definitely known about in the West long before the 19th century.
Rich
What do you thinks? Also, in Britain at least, the peacock has been kept as a pet, perhaps at one point they were kept as pets at the Castle? The peacock was definitely known about in the West long before the 19th century.
Rich
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Well, I think we are close in our opinons on this: I think it is a peacock-LIKE bird but not a peacock. The reason why would probably be mostly semantic: people would not be saying the feathers were "like a peacock" if it WAS a peacock. so I think they were implying there was a discernable difference in there
A snake is not a bird. Don't know how ppl could confuse the two together. (Though these were said to have cockerel-like combs, I think?) I know this story &they *were* known in the early 19th c, not the middle ages. But why would they only be known in this one place in Wales? & why would they be known as predators "as bad as foxes"?
If they were peacocks?
You must be thinking rainbow hawks or summat?! :)
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