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Old Belief
← Sirin and Alkonost
Single apple branch in white and pink blossom against a bare white sky, no bird on it, two petals falling

the apple branch

The bird-women are placed in apple trees in the pictures, and the branch is as much a part of the image as they are.

Basis: The iconography of the lubok bird-maidens · AI-generated

More of this creature

Hand-coloured print pinned to a plank wall showing two crowned bird-women perched in an apple tree, their feathered bodies painted in flat red, green and ochrethe woodcut on the wall →Two long bird feathers lying on whitewashed boards, one pale grey and one near black with a green sheen, angled slightly apart with their quills almost touchingtwo feathers side by side →