Picus Review

Then came the witch.

The sorceress —the same enchantress who turned Odysseus’s men into pigs—fell madly in love with Picus. She saw him hunting in her woods and was immediately obsessed. But Picus rejected her scornfully. "I belong to Canens alone," he said. "I will never be yours." Then came the witch

But in ancient Roman mythology, the woodpecker—known as —was far more than just a bird. He was a god. And his story is one of the strangest and most captivating tales from the classical world. Who Was Picus? In the pre-Roman mythology of the Latins, Picus was the son of Saturn (the god of time and generation) and the father of Faunus (the god of the forest). He was the original king of Latium (the region where Rome would one day rise). But Picus rejected her scornfully

Never spurn a witch.