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Why Are Ravens very often identified with black magic?

(Picture 1) Kimmo Huosionmaa Almost every person, who looks at Gothic art are noticed that those paintings and drawings are usually portrayed the black bird known as  Raven. Those birds are symbolizing black magic and witchcraft. But why that big crow is so often portrayed in that kind of art? The reason is that witches must hide their identity, and real witchcraft and black magic are actually making some poisons by using natural vegetables and mushrooms. But the problem with witches was that if they caught by sheriffs, they would die in the bonfire. So the witches must grow their vegetables like Belladonna and destroy angels in far away from the house, where that person lives. And actually, they must use plantations, what looks like natural. And also they must know the location of those vegetables. They must use some bird, what was not suspicious as the pet, and also that bird must be easy to find if the looker knows the mark of the bird.  And the bird must be bi...