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 Beatrix Potter wrote to her publisher enthusing about the forthcoming crow-shooting season and looking forward to crow pies. She also started, but never completed, a series of stories about a Crow. See: Blackbird Pie TT Wilkinson's 'Lancashire Folklore' of 1867 says; "The following charms are repeated by children throughout Lancashire and Yorkshire: The Crow Charm. The expression 'to eat crow', or 'eat crow-pie' is used in the USA as a way of admitting fallibility. 'Crow and Pie' is a cheery 15th Century ballad about a woman being raped and getting compensation from her attacker.  |
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