It is said that King Arthur is not dead, but is only changed into a raven, and will in due time resume his proper form and rule over his people gloriously.
The raven was white till it turned tell-tale, and informed Apollo of the faithlessness of Corōnis. Apollo shot the nymph for her infidelity, but changed the plumage of the raven into inky blackness for his officious prating.--Ovid, Metamorphoses, ii.
He [Apollo] blackened the raven o’er,
And bid him prate in his white plumes no more.
Addison’s Translation of Ovid, ii.
If ravens gape against the sun, heat will follow; but if they busy themselves in preening or washing, there will be rain.
Rem´ora. A fish called the remora can arrest a ship in full sail.
A little fish that men call remora,
Which stopped her course ...
That wind nor tide could move her.