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Subject: RE: rhymes for counting Magpies From: Mrrzy Date: 10 Mar 19 - 10:24 AM Fascinating. Reminds me of love me love me not with daisies (quite different in French than English, too, as are the sneeze counts). |
Subject: RE: rhymes for counting Magpies From: GUEST,Philippa Date: 20 Sep 19 - 05:41 PM I was looking up … three for a letter, four for something better... as that version is quoted by a character in Rebecca Tope's "A Cotswold Mystery". Poems for counting sneezes have many of the same lines found in poems for counting magpies or crows. I see "Mouldy" mentioned this overlap in an older message. |
Subject: RE: rhymes for counting Magpies From: GUEST,Dave Hunt Date: 21 Sep 19 - 10:10 AM Does anyone still say to the first Magpie you see each day " Good morning Sir!" supposed to be bad luck if you don't do it |
Subject: RE: rhymes for counting Magpies From: BruceL Date: 21 Sep 19 - 11:09 AM As a young lad I was told to say 'Good Morning, Mrs Magpie' - but I can't remember if that was from my parents [Scottish] or locals in the Cotswolds, where I lived. Apparently, as magpies mate for life [this may not be true] a single magpie must have lost its partner so to ignore it would be bad luck. I still say 'Good morning/afternoon/evening' to lone magpies if I remember. |
Subject: RE: rhymes for counting Magpies From: The Sandman Date: 21 Sep 19 - 05:03 PM good morning my lord, is what i was taught, and yes Dave i still say it |
Subject: RE: rhymes for counting Magpies From: The Sandman Date: 21 Sep 19 - 05:06 PM I saw one last wednesday , the same day i decided to back a horse called lasting legacy, which won at 66 to one , now if i had not said good morning my lord three times .the horse might still be running |
Subject: RE: rhymes for counting Magpies From: GUEST,Philippa Date: 21 Sep 19 - 07:04 PM I need to correct a reference in my message of 20 Sept. The novel in which I came across a version of the magpie rhyme is called "A Grave in the Cotswolds". It is one of a series of Cotswold mysteries by Rebecca Tope. |
Subject: RE: rhymes for counting Magpies From: GUEST,Peter Laban Date: 22 Sep 19 - 11:36 AM Fiddler Tommy Peoples, in his book From Time to Time gives the following in the notes to his composition 'Two for joy' (a reel): One for sorrow, two for joy Three for a girl, four for a boy Five for silver, six for gold Seven for a secret, never to be told Eight for diamonds, nine for love Ten for a mystery from above. |
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