In Neil Gaiman's short story "Sunbird", a party of Epicureans finally answer the question of what happens when a Phoenix is roasted and eaten you burst into flames, and 'the years burn off you'.In addition, the wands of both Harry and Voldemort contain feathers from Fawkes. The tears of the phoenix can heal severe poisoning, and other illnesses and injuries. In Harry Potter's world, phoenixes can carry enormous weights, and their song is said to strike fear into the hearts of the impure and courage into those who are pure of heart. Rowling's Harry Potter novels feature a phoenix named Fawkes. Sylvia Plath also alludes to the phoenix in the end of her famous poem "Lady Lazarus".The pattern of a complacent and abusive society's destruction yielding a fresh new start was compared to the Phoenix's mythological pattern of resurrection. The phoenix was also famed for being a symbol of the rise and fall of society, Montag and Faber in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.It appears later, and is identified as a phoenix, in The Last Battle. Lewis's book The Magician's Nephew, a marvellous bird guards an Eden-like garden. Edward Ormondroyd's children's novel (1957) David and the Phoenix features the phoenix as a main character.
Howard's tale of King Conan of Aquilonia, " The Phoenix on the Sword", the supernatural scribe Epimetreus inscribes a mystical Phoenix symbol on the blade of Conan's broadsword, to aid against a supernatural enemy. Lawrence carries the motif on its covers. The Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D. Lawrence frequently used the phoenix as a symbol for rebirth in life. In the Vermilion Bird, a mystical Phoenix symbol represents of Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations.Edith Nesbit's famous children's novel The Phoenix and the Carpet is based on this legendary creature and its friendship with a family of children.204-5 writes: 'could we get the phœnix, though nature lost her kind, shee were our dish.' Another mention of the phoenix as a culinary delicacy occurs in John Webster's The White Devil (1612). In certain works of Renaissance literature, the phoenix is said to have been eaten as the rarest of dishes – for only one was alive at any one time.He also wrote the poem The Phoenix and the Turtle. William Shakespeare frequently mentions the bird in his plays.Classical references to the phoenix include the Greek historian Herodotus, the Latin poet Ovid, the Latin historian Tacitus, and the early Christian Apostolic Father 1 Clement.