When the god Phoebus lived here on Earth he was the most accomplished and energetic young man in the world.He was the best archer in the world,a musician and the most handsome man alive. He had a wife that he loved very much,but he was extremely jealous

Phoebus kept a crow in his house, which he fed every day and had taught to speak.This crow was as white as a swan and could imitate the voice of anybody that spoke to it and faithfully reproduce any conversation it heard.

Phoebus left for one day,and his wife called her secret lover and she cheated on her husband for a man of little reputation and worth nothing in comparison with her husband and crow saw the scene

When Phoebus returns,the crow tells him what has happened.Phoebus was enraged and killed his wife with his bow.

In sorrow he smashed all his instruments, his harp and his lute, his cittern and his psaltery, and he broke all his arrows and his bow.

Then,angry at what he had done because of crow,he returned to the white crow pulled out all his white feathers and made him black, took away his song and all his speech and then slung him out at the door for the devil to find and the devil is welcome to him.