Myths and Legends

The Split Grey Goose Feather

Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England (map)

Dated: 1646 - 1649

A feather may seem a very unimportant thing. However, at one time people used them to write with, to fill duvets and pillows and, on one occasion, the life of a king may even have depended on a simple, grey, goose feather!

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