Crow Symbolism

After doing a little research, symbolism of the crow goes so many different ways. In all different countries of the world, they had a different depiction of the crow.

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http://paganismwicca.suite101.com/article.cfm/crow_mysterious_pagan_symbol

There is a blurb about the Native American view of them, which is quoted below. This should help understand the poem.

"Crow has been likened to the trickster of Native American power animals. There was a man who hated crows because he thought they prevented him from trapping rabbits. He decided to try to frighten them by putting mirrors on the ground facing skyward so the birds would see their reflections and be scared away. Crow, a curious bird ,and was fascinated by the mirrors and decided to explore them. One by one, they desecrated the mirrors’ surfaces, then flew into a tree and cackled at what they had done."