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The Tower of London's ravens must stay at the Tower or else the monarch loses their crown and the kingdom will fall.
This legend is said to date back to Charles II, who either he or his astronomer wanted them removed but on being reminded of the importance of the ravens allowed them to stay whilst the royal observatory was moved to Greenwich. Though the links with fortresses, and particularly the Tower of London, and ravens goes back further than that to Celtic times. The lead god/king of the Britons was Bran the Blessed, whose name means raven. Bran when fatally wounded instructed that his head be cut off and taken to the White Hill, the site of the Tower of London to be buried, so as to protect Britain from invasion. Hill forts have been found to have crow, magpie or raven skeletons buried within them seemingly as a way of bringing protection to the fort. A poem that attests to a king who had many of the characteristics of Arthur, though who wasn't Arthur, is said to have fed ravens on the walls of his castle. See on the Map-olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=The_Ravens_of_the_Tower_of_London
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