We actually renamed a tune for the sake of luck. It is known as the lilting banshee, or the older name, the miller of glan mire. Every time we would say the Miller of Glan mire, a large group would walk out. It began to happen so often we began to make jokes about it. It was like the Jack Benny movie To Be or Not To Be. We began to make jokes about Glan Mire, so when the party would leave we would appologise and tell the rest of the audience, There goes about seventy per cent of the town of Glan Mire. Then one day, a friend from Wiltshire was sitting in with us and was telling a story about a fellow in his town and he described him as a very Popular Halfwit. It so fit the Miller of Glan mire that we began calling the tune that, and the luck changed. It also provided a great name for a certain mudcatter in Devises - same fellow who was sitting in with us... And Now You Know The Whole Story, as a certain raidio personality used to say...
Larry