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|'''[[Mother Goose]]'''}}
{{quote|''Other birds collect twigs for their nests. Magpies collect jewels for theirs.''|Flavor Text for the ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' card [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid{{=}}129764 Thieving Magpie]}}
Magpies. Black and white birds that feature in a lot of stories. There are also a number of superstitions surrounding magpies (especially in the British Isles) related to warding off the bad luck of a lone magpie. Some superstitions are quick and only require a simple salute while others a bit more eccentric involving pinching, spitting or saying certain phrases.
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* The Windex cleaning spray commercials prominently feature magpies.▼
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Invoked in ''[[Sandman]]''
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** Ashe Corven of the movie ''[[The Crow]]: City of Angels'' references this rhyme as well as he's trashing the bad guys of a strip booth establishment where his second target is, using crows in place of magpies.
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▲* The Windex cleaning spray commercials prominently feature magpies.
▲== [[Fanfic]] ==
* The rhyme is used in the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2941935/1/A_Sorrow_of_Magpies A Sorrow of Magpies]'' in a [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]] kind of way.
** More specifically, the rhyme is as follows:
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* [[Patrick Wolf]] has a song that quotes the aforementioned rhyme as the last stanza. Unsurprisingly the song itself is named [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mLhqJMy_WA Magpie]
* "Two Magpies" off of [[Paul McCartney]]'s album ''Electric Arguments'' features lines from the rhyme. Unsurprisingly, it's [[Ear Worm|extremely catchy]].
* The rhyme makes an appearance in the song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKXBvK34rgg "Ravens in the Library"] by [[S.J. Tucker]] where it's song softly in counterpart to one of the early verses:
{{quote|''One for fiction, two for truth (One for sorrow)
''Three for bikes and bathing suits (Two for joy)
''Four for sci-fi/fantasy (Three for girls and four for boys)
''Five loves art and ancient skulls (Five for silver)
''Six eats periodicals (Six for gold)
''Seven lives in poetry (Seven for a secret never told)}}
== [[Oral Tradition]] ==
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