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THE USES OF PEACOCK FEATHERS

The pheasant feathers and birds are not only purely external beauty as we often see the king, or about your rights, used to decorate, but it also contains many secrets inside that we can not explore all .

The pheasant feathers and only birds have feathers attract energy from the earth, from heaven. God is the King used in court.



How did this superstition arise?  The end of a peacock’s feathers resemble the “evil eye” of olde, otherwise known as the eye of the she-demon, Lilith,

or perhaps reflective of the evil Argus, with one hundred eyes all over his body, who was transformed into a peacock with an eye at the end of each tail feather. 

Thus, villagers thought that the bird’s feathers would bring bad luck.  Other theories are more focused on protecting the species.  The “evil eye” feather indicated that the flesh of the peacock was poisonous, a totally false idea which was propagated to save the peacock from becoming the main dish at any and every elegant banquet in Renaissance Europe.

Of course, when you consider what peacock feathers have been used for (and how many have been used), they might have been justified in their concerns around the survival of this species of fowl.  Consider:
 - This Chinese wedding dress has 2009 peacock feathers as part of the train, at a cost of $1.5 million smackeroos.

 

- A handmade peacock feather cloak (this one took 1500 feathers)

- Peacock feather shoes by designer Pedro Garcia

- Peacock feather wedding bouquets (doesn’t the bad luck thing rear its head here?)

 Peaccok feather cake topper by Lana Pelham of Fairbanks Florist in Orlando, Florida

And finally, the ubiquitous peacock feather fan.

Peaccok feather fan by Lana Pelham of Fairbanks Florist in Orlando, Florida

My mother always wanted one, and so I gave her one that I found in an antique store in Georgetown, Colorado for Christmas one year.  She would never do anything with it other than fan herself (duh) but it was one of those lifelong dreams fulfilled (sort of like me wanting an Easy-Bake Oven and a Mystery Date game.)

Peacocks are not the brightest bird in the boat, but they are beautiful.  We found them at several Welsh castles (including an albino peahen at Ruthin Castle)

and they terrorize small children with food at the Denver Zoo.

Kelsea and I laid out our peacock feathers artistically on a hedge at Gwydir Castle before our departure.  We never saw our host again.  Hopefully by now, he has recovered from the shock.