Birds

Reading Terri Windling's essay on birds in folklore. In the last one year, I have been pulled to birds in my own writing without exactly meaning to. There is the short story now burning in the back burner after a couple of drafts. The long poem Generations, which I am planning to begin to work on after a few days. Now, Windling's essay has all kinds of references to birds, but has nothing about parrots. So, I am trying to compile a small bibliography of my own.Not too overwhelming, but something that will push my own characterization of Parrot King a little further. So, here it is, below:

1. Pinault, David. Notes from the fortune-telling parrot : Islam and the struggle for religious pluralism in Pakistan (book)

2.The rich man and the Parrot

3.Parrot culture : our 2,500-year-long fascination with the world's most talkative bird
2004
Boehrer, Bruce Thomas.

4.Black parrot, green crow : a collection of short fiction / by Houshang Golshiri ; edited by Heshmat Moayyad

5.Author Ghatak, S. M., 1926-
Title The case of the parson's parrot and other stories / S.M. Ghatak.
Publication Information New Delhi : Rupa & Co., 2002.

6.Author Jain, Neera.
Title A parrot that could pray and other tales : tales of Tenali Raman / retold by Neera Jain ; design and illustration by Nandita Chatterjee.
Publication Information New Delhi : Rupa & Co., 2002.

7.Skelton, Robin.
Title The parrot who could : and other stories / by Robin Skelton.
Publication Information Victoria, B.C. : Sono Nis Press, 1987.

8.Padma Sudhi, 1938-
Title Virtues of parrot-learning : thirty parrot-tales from Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism / Padma Sudhi.
Edition 1st ed.
Publication Information Poona : Western Ghat Publication, 1987.

9. Lal, Rangi.
Title The parrot and the starling : [tales / by Rangilal] ; translated by K. P. Bahadur.
Edition 1st ed.
Publication Information Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass, 1977.

10.Uniform title ukasaptati. English.
Title Shuka Saptati : seventy tales of the parrot / translated from the Sanskrit by A.N.D. Haksar.
Publication Information New Delhi : HarperCollins Publishers, 2000.

There are some more that I have ignored for the time being. Ten is a good number to begin with, I think. Now, on a different but related note, Windling also has this section on swans and she mentions this Grimm Brothers' story "Seven Swans", which is all about a sister sewing shirts for her six brothers who have been turned into swans. So, sewing, brother, sister--raw material for the other project I have on quilts? Seems like it! What I am waiting for?