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== [[Advertising]] ==
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* The Windex cleaning spray commercials prominently feature magpies.

== [[Comic Books]] ==
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Invoked in ''[[Sandman]]''
* Invoked in ''[[Sandman]]''
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{{quote|'''Eric Draven''': Seven blackbirds in a tree, count them and see what they be. One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl and four for a boy. Five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told. You're all going to die.}}
{{quote|'''Eric Draven''': Seven blackbirds in a tree, count them and see what they be. One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl and four for a boy. Five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told. You're all going to die.}}
** 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.
** 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.

== Commercials ==
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* The Windex cleaning spray commercials prominently feature magpies.


== [[Fanfic]] ==
== [[Fanfic]] ==
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