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I do not know how to create an account. And even if I did, what good would it do me?

Anyway, when I was a little girl, I had these lessons.

Sipposedly, big raptors, called harpies (or dragons) lived in the Old World, in the Middle East around the Mediterrean Sea. Supposedly some of China's raptors were called dragons. The females were bigger than the males. People learned how to kill these raptors; women went for the eggs in particular, while the men fought the birds. They nested in the middle of big wetlands. Some of the harpies (as mentioned in Greek Myth) had a certain amount of intelligence and could talk. They were nicknamed skyshadows, i got into big trouble at regular school talking about this.

Natural history scholars used to examine carvings, paintings, and other replicas of these birds and try and pick out general characteristics and how many species there were. Some of the art was very realistic; in others, the artists took license.

Cindy Donahey Columbus, OH