peafowls

• “Common peafowls are considered sacred in many parts of India, where they have become so tame that they are essentially domesticated.”

  5 Chicken

• “But I can not see why he should love me, who am to the court-ladies as a thrush to peafowls.”

  The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt

• “They kept the peafowls for good luck, young mistress.”

  Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3

• “Mr. Reese had a big flock of peafowls dat had belonged to Mr. Scott and I had to take care of dem.”

  Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives

• “Dere was all sorts of meat to choose f'um at weddin 'dinners -- turkeys, geese, chickens, peafowls, and guineas, not to mention good old ham and other meats.”

  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2

• “Removes: -- 3 roast turkeys, 1 leveret, 3 pheasants, 2 geese, 2 dishes of partridges, 1 dish of wild fowl, 2 peafowls.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841

• “When it was goin 'to rain them old peafowls set up a big holler.”

  Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3

• “I never knew rain to fail after them peafowls started their racket.”

  Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3

• “Most all of 'em had droves of chickens, geese, and turkeys, and on our place there were lots of peafowls.”

  Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3

• “Having retired to a hermitage, where he was engaged in prayer, and being surrounded by a number of peafowls, with which bird the country abounds, an idolater who happened to be passing, and did not perceive the holy man, shot an arrow at a peacock, which struck St. Thomas in the side.”

  The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure

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