1 for sorrow
2 for joy
3 for a girl
4 for a boy
5 for silver
6 for gold
7 for a secret never to be told
If you see a single magpie to break the curse you must raise your hat and say: "Good morning Mr. Magpie how are your wife and children today"
Boys are usally the more stronger ones. Boys are usally the more stronger ones.
Australia. No not really but you're a fool for asking because no one knows and if they did then it would come up with more answers than this one! lol
1 for sorrow
2 for joy
3 for a girl
and 4 for a boy
...as the rhyme goes.
So it depends, one mapies is thought to symbolise bad luck. Though two is considered good luck.
Baby tarsiers are carried around in their mothers mouth or cling to her fur until they are ready to explore on their own. Most tarsiers stay with their mother until they are between one and two years old.
The plural form for the noun magpie is magpies; the plural possessive is magpies'.
Magpie is an acoustic folk duo of Greg Artzner and Terry Leonino that got together in 1973. They performed for everyone from the President of the United States to concerts that costed free dollars at county run parks.
A magpie will attack to protect it's babies, find shiny for there nest or too hunt for food
Yes, for magpies are one of the thousands of types of birds that can fly, except for the chicken and the penguin. Magpies also love to collect shiny things, e.g. pennies, metal clips, scrap, anything like that.
Internally - The dominant males will mate with any, and as many as he likes, the other males have to fight to mate. Magpies have a long breeding season which varies in different parts of the country, in northern parts of Australia they will breed between June and September, but in cooler regions they will not start breeding until August or September, and may continue until January in some areas.
Black-billed magpies' females lay up to 9 eggs (average of 6). In Prague (Czech republic) they are overpopulated. In late ninetieths I watched them only in the outskirts of Prague and now they are also in the center.
That's hard i know 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 and 10
1 sorrow
2 joy
3 girl
4 boy
5 silver
6 gold
7 secret never to be told
8 wish
9 kiss
10 bird you must not miss
Okay, I was trying to figure this out as well after I came across the phrase in Dumas' The Three Musketeers. After reading all of the the D'Artagnan Romances, you can put two and two together in the last chapter of the last book when it is explained that magpies are flown as prey/targets for falconers. So apparently "fly the magpie" means to release magpies for trained falcons to hunt, a common aristocratic pasttime.