Yet while the loss of these birds is lamented the loss of others which dont figure in either literature or folklore is virtually ignored Folklore is so important The stories legends and rhymes which persist through time with their obscure origins constant revisions and reinventions somehow have a greater living bond with their subjects than cold scientific terms a bond that is strengthened by the everyday language in which they are understood and communicated This gives them a power to summon up feelings and attitudes from a consciousness buried under all the stuff of modern life