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Keep Away From Half A Dozen Crows!
Author : Bruno Blackstone
Submitted : 2011-11-23 12:47:25 Word Count : 630 Popularity: 13
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Individuals who appreciate the countryside can not help encounter the strange folklore linked with wildlife and in particular the Corvids or Crow family. A pal of mine cannot loosen up unless he calls “Good Morning Mr Magpie” to the first magpie he comes across every single day and I have noticed quite a few occasions where land owners will often tie up dead magpies (in fact other beasts also for instance moles) in a line along a wooden fence. Curious I began a thread on a hiking blog site and learned that this is done for 2 reasons.
To begin with, it is believed that it will keep other magpies (or moles) away and as well it was a method of gamekeepers displaying their competencies at pest control and hence claim their payment. Indeed one commenter on the blog site stated that he had observed birds of prey hanging this way in the past, due to the fact they were, of course, hunted as vermin because they were considered to be threats to the game bird population that, of course, the gamekeeper is wanting to protect. By way of additional investigation I learned the following.
The perfect way to steer clear of bad fortune if you pass a magpie is to raise your hat. It was the only bird not to go onto the Ark, deciding to continue to be on its own outside. It is in addition held in awe simply because it is one of the very few wild creatures that’s coloured black and white - a mixture of Satan's colour and the sacred or holy colour of white. In England, magpies are additionally counted, 'One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl and four for a boy, five for sorrow, six for gold, seven is a secret never to be told, eight is a wish, nine is a kiss and ten is the bird you must not miss.
If that’s the magpie, what about other Corvids. Definately be on the lookout for half a dozen crows - One's bad, Two's luck, Three's health, Four's wealth, Five's sickness, Six is death. The jackdaw, alternatively, is a mixture of good and bad; one of them perching on a building is a signal of bad luck, but when a whole group does so then both an addition to the family and an increase in its financial prosperity are predicted.
A Raven is an ill-omened bird, in a position to predict the future, particularly death. If the Ravens in the Tower of London were to be lost or fly away then the Royal Family will die and The uk would fall to an enemy. For the American Indian the raven is 'the foreteller of death' and has a hugely developed sense of smell which can smell the stench of decay from some distance. The ominous nature of this bird is described in Edgar Allan Poe's poem 'The Raven'. To kill a raven is to damage the spirit of King Arthur who visits the world in the form of a raven.
Lastly the folklore regarding rooks is, should a party of them abandon an area where they have settled then a person associated with that land is about to die. They are an omen of the summertime weather conditions to come: if they are high up it will be fine, but low down and it is going to be cold and rainy.
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