Animal symbolism
Magpie
What the tradition holds
Read by number in British tradition: one for sorrow, two for joy. Elsewhere read as a thief and a keeper of bright things.
Where that reading came from
Magpies are corvids, as clever as crows, and were long believed to steal shiny objects, which experiments have mostly disproved.
If you know the counting rhyme, you will count. Notice that the rhyme is doing the work and write what happened anyway.
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