scald-crow

As we ran out of Killoge, at something near thirty miles an hour, I heard scald-crow laughter behind me in the shawls.

She concluded with a chuckle that might have been uttered by a scald-crow.

With another scald-crow chuckle she turned to Casey.

He may have been a war-god, like the scald-crow goddesses of Ireland, and he is also spoken of in the Triads as an "obstructor of slaughter" or "support of battle."

Badb means "a scald-crow," under which form the war-goddesses appeared, probably because these birds were seen near the slain.