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What is in this image? Describe it as if you were explaining it to someone from the 15th century.

This image portrays a very simplistic and imaginative scene one might hear in a whimsical tale or see in a woodcut illustration of the time. At the heart of this depiction, there are two birds. One bird is nestled inside what appears to be a wooden dwelling, akin to a small house or a box attached to a tree, which harks to the birdhouses you might see or imagine in your time. This house hangs from a sinuously curving branch, a detail that might remind one of the decorated letters on a manuscript’s page.Above this house, on a higher swoop of the branch, another bird is engaged in a most curious and fantastical act—it appears to be carrying a bundle of tiny pigs. Each pig is bound together with what resembles a net or bag, suspended from the bird''s beak. Such a sight, surely from a fable, posits a world where creatures of the sky concern themselves with those of the earth in inexplicable ways.Surrounding these main figures, one notices the presence of large leaves, further accentuating that this scene unfolds within a wooded or a treed place. The drawing, in its utter simplicity, communicates a folkloric narrative common in tales shared by firesides or used in the moral teachings for children during the era.