The tale of Four Bird Brothers are folk legend that repeatedly appears in Lee Yeongdo's fantasy novel The Bird That Drinks Tears and its sequel The Bird That Drinks Blood. In the fictional world of the series, according to the legend of Kitalzer Hunters there were once four bird brothers who each had taste for different kind of liquids. Sometimes in a form of story and sometimes in a form of riddle, the tale of this four brothers appears repeatedly throughout both The Bird That Drinks Tears and The Bird That Drinks Blood. The tale is told in many different versions by many different characters, and are often used as many different symbolic figures that represents themes that run through two novels.
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