I recently mentioned the crows in a comment on the post Mariah made about the book versus the HBO series, and she responded with a comment of her own that jolted me back to realizing some details I had forgotten about or deemed otherwise unimportant.
The crows, as mentioned in the comment strand, are harbingers of death and suffering, with Old Nan warning Bran about how they would peck his eyes out, but he knew that they would do no such thing since he'd fed them from his hands when he would climb the towers in Winterfell. The harbinger of death aspect can be seen clearly in what happened to Ned (RIP to one of the few honorable characters of this series), and... well, we just know that the Starks have some bad luck regarding maintaining their health and keeping their heads on their shoulders. I feel like we should talk about the crows a bit, and mention that they're present away from the Starks as well.
--SORT OF SPOILER ALERT FOR THE SHOW, JUST PUTTING THIS HERE IN CASE IT'S RELEVANT, I DON'T WANT TO SPOIL ANYTHING, WHAT I'M GOING TO MENTION HAPPENS LATER IN SEASON 2 WHEN A CERTAIN WILDLING IS INTRODUCED-
Okay, so sorry for the huge alert, I don't want to wreck anything in case I mention some actual spoilers. So, we know that Ygritte comes on the scene in S2 of the HBO drama, and she calls Jon and all of the other men who have taken the Black or work at Castle Black or otherwise guard the Wall "crows." I'm fairly certain this also happens in the books, but I want to talk about this as well. Since in the past we've seen crows mentioned whenever something terrible is about to happen, or Bran is having one of his prophetic dreams with the three-eyed crow. Do you guys think that there's going to be some big disaster or something around the men of the Night's Watch?
-END SPOILER ALERT-
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