Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa

The Golden-crowned Kinglet, an Almanac

• Older folk will not say the Golden-crowned Kinglet's name after dark, and have their reasons.
• Science teaches, whatever the peasantry may hold, that its feathers, charged as they are with the galvanic fluid, are sovereign against a low fever.
• There's them that swear a feather of it carried to the tannery flats and back keeps your milk cow safe another year.
• By the elder almanacs, it will not cross a running stream for love nor money.
• The Golden-crowned Kinglet at the wash line is an almanac in itself, could you but read it.

Folklore, invented on the spot — not to be believed.