| Classification | Supernatural artefact |
| Previous owners | Orville, Bottle Collector, Tabatha, |
| Current custody | Unknown |
| Primary effect | Psychic visions of Julian and Eve in bed |
| Secondary effect | Hallucinations. Dark premonitions. Distress. |
| Tertiary effect | Psychiatric commitment of Charity Standish |
Object of Interest · Supernatural Artefact
The Bird Statue
A carved bird statue of unclear origin that causes psychic visions, hallucinations, and extended psychiatric commitments when brought near Charity Standish. Kay Bennett discovered this. She has been using it. The Gazette considers this a significant development.
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Kay Bennett, who discovered that bringing it near Charity Standish causes Charity to experience psychic visions, specifically of Julian Crane and Eve Russell in bed together. This has been used to have Charity committed to a psychiatric ward. The Gazette considers this an escalation.
The statue originally belonged to an old man named Orville. Tabitha possessed it before Kay obtained it. Multiple parties have attempted to acquire it, including Ivy Crane, who tried to open it. This is a significant detail that the Gazette is tracking.
What It Does
When brought near Charity Standish, the bird statue triggers psychic visions. The specific content of these visions is photographs of Julian Crane and Eve Russell in bed together, which is a peculiar default setting for a supernatural artefact and one the Gazette has noted without being able to fully explain.
Beyond the Julian-and-Eve visions, the statue also produces dark premonitions and general distress in anyone sensitive to its influence. Charity, as the embodiment of ultimate goodness and a person of considerable psychic sensitivity, is particularly affected. The effect is severe enough that Eve Russell, as her physician, had Charity committed to a psychiatric ward. The Gazette notes that Eve Russell has a personal reason to want the visions suppressed, specifically that the visions are of Eve Russell.
Provenance
The statue originally belonged to a man named Orville, described in Gazette records as an old man of Harmony. Tabitha Lenox obtained it at some point, which suggests its supernatural properties were either created by or known to Tabitha. Kay discovered that Tabitha possessed the statue and acquired it for use against Charity. The bird was breifly lost and found by a bottle collector, the outcome of that this reporter cannot recall from memory.
Ivy Crane has also attempted to acquire the statue and was observed trying to open it. The bum who sold the statue to Ivy later demanded it back on behalf of a higher bidder. Julian Crane was also reported to be the prospective buyer at one point. The bird statue has, in a short period, been the object of considerable competition, which the Gazette considers instructive.
The Psychiatric Ward Angle
The bird statue's most consequential deployment to date was its use to generate visions sufficiently distressing that Charity Standish was committed for psychiatric evaluation. Tabitha, learning of this, had herself committed to the same ward in order to remain close to the situation. The Gazette notes that a 360-year-old witch voluntarily committing herself to a psychiatric ward is one of the more elaborate tactical decisions in recent Harmony history.
While in the ward, Tabitha overheard doctors discussing administering a drug that would make Charity highly susceptible to suggestion. This information was then used to attempt to direct Charity's behaviour. The Gazette considers the bird statue the proximate cause of this entire chain of events.
The Contents
The bird statue contains dirty photographs of Julian Crane and Eve Russell together, which is why the psychic visions it generates have that specific content. The photographs are the physical record of their affair from the 1970s. They are significant evidence and their discovery would immediately expose Eve's secret to TC Russell.
The Gazette considers this the most consequential piece of evidence currently in circulation in Harmony and notes that it is being weaponised against Charity Standish by a teenager who wants her cousin's boyfriend.