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The following is based on word-of-mouth testimony by the descendants of first-hand witnesses of the “Corvomancers’ Incident”, which took place across the Midwest in 19XX.

The Dust Bowl 
“On April 14th, 1935—known as “Black Sunday”—one of the worst “black blizzards” occurred across the entire sweep of the Great Plains, from Canada south to Texas. The storms caused excessive damage and appeared to turn day into night; witnesses reported that they could not see five feet (1.5m) in front of them at certain points.” 
-Wikipedia

Here is where the stories told by the local population diverge from established history:
The story goes that the beginning of the black blizzards was marked by the appearance of what has been described as a “mile high spherical nest” descending from the cloud base. This appearance was accompanied by tornados and winds strong enough to—as one observer put it—“throw a playing card through a fence post.”
Do to the obvious danger presented by the wind and flying debris, there are no accounts of the events that took place during the storms themselves, which lasted between four and six days, during which the local population sheltered in their tornado cellars, fearing the worst. 
The survivors emerged from the darkness to a changed world. Many opened the cellar door onto a completely vacant plain, their houses destroyed and blown away by the storms. 
Scattered across the plain from horizon to horizon were blackened crumpled figures: isolated single individuals and piles of “families.” Bodies upon bodies of the apparent human-corvid hybrids which came to be known locally as “Corvomancers”, due to what were interpreted as magical symbols adorning the creatures’ clothing. 

Unfortunately, due to the scarcity photographic equipment there is no official recorded evidence to back up these stories. However, there are apocryphal stories of mysterious pieces of cloth, feathers, and even unknown pieces of technology secreted away in this or that attic and trunk.  
Additionally, there are copious illustrations created by local artists showing the unusual features of the creatures in situ. If these images are to be believed, each creature was very much an individual with unique combinations of human and avian features, some with both beaks and mouths, some with human eyes, some with the glass-like eyes of crows. Many had feathers sprouting from their limbs and wings ranging from the fully-formed to multiple vestigial appendages. 
Adding to the confusion surrounding the situation was the sudden disappearance of the bodies. The entire area was swept clean the following night when a final storm appeared, forcing the witnesses back into their cellars for one final night. 
Upon emerging on the subsequent morning, all evidence of the event had been erased from the land, and the locals came to consider it as nothing more than a collective dream in the darkness of the cellars.