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{{quote|''One for sorrow, two for joy,''<br />
''Three for a girl, four for a boy,''<br />
''Five for silver, six for gold,''<br />
''Seven for a secret that must never be told.''|'''[[Mother Goose]]'''}}
 
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Invoked in ''[[Sandman]]''
{{quote| '''Delirium''', in ''The Wake'': One for sorrow, two for sorrow, three for sorrow, four for for for I don't know. But I'm bored of sorrow, five for three two one, six for gold, seven for a magpie who tells me where to go...''}}
** In the earlier story "Parliment of Rooks", Eve sings the rhyme while holding the infant Daniel. Abel finishes with the last line, then adds, "It's true, you know."
* In ''[[Tintin/Recap/The Castafiore Emerald|The Castafiore Emerald]]'', [[Tintin]] has a [[Eureka Moment]] when he hears that Castafiore, still missing her emerald, will be performing in ''La Gazza Ladra'' (the Rossini opera mentioned below). Sure enough, he finds the emerald in a magpie's nest.
* A minor [[Batman]] villain was named Magpie for her kleptomania and the [[Steven Ulysses Perhero|unfortunate birth name]] Margaret Pye.
* In ''[[The Crow]]'', the rhyme is referenced (with blackbirds in the place of magpies) by Eric as he prepares to kill a bar full of thugs, and capped with a classic line.
{{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.
 
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* 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:
{{quote| '''[[Death Dealer|Luxord:]]''' [using [[The Gambler|two dice]], but mentions magpies] "Two is for fresh luck, while three starts the play. Four means start running, five means you stay. Six earns you silver, seven earns gold. Eight for new allies, nine for the old. Ten wins good fortune, eleven risks all -- but twelve wins the match and there, stops the ball." (and when asked about one) "One is for sorrow, because it's always alone."}}
** [[Fridge Brilliance|It's impossible to roll a one on a pair of dice; hence, sorrow.]]
* In the ''[[Troll Cops]]'' [[Homestuck]] AU, there is a pair of stories called "One For Sorrow", which has:
{{quote| ''One is for Sorrow.<br />
Two is for Mirth.<br />
Three is for a Funeral.<br />
Four is for a Birth.<br />
Five is for Heaven.<br />
Six is for Hell.<br />
Seven's for the Devil himself.'' }}
 
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* The rhyme itself appears in the song "A Murder of One" by [[Counting Crows]]. As corvids, magpies are part of a family of birds known as crows. The rhyme is also the origin of the band's name.
* Seanan McGuire's [[Filk Song]] [http://seananmcguire.com/songbook.php?id=143 "Counting Crows"] opens with a version of the rhyme, and continues on the theme. Chorus:
{{quote| In mercy's shadow, nothing grows./And she's running hard now, counting crows.}}
* Similarly, Vixy and Tony's [[Filk Song]] [http://vixyandtony.com/lyrics_thirteen.html Thirteen] asks what happens when there are more than seven:
{{quote| Count my brothers and count my sisters, we'll tell your fortune and we'll tell you true/But the path's all covered in claws and feathers, Magpie, there's too many of you...}}
* A magpie appears in the artwork to some early albums by [[Marillion]], and is referred to in the lyrics of ''Misplaced Childhood''. One of the band's live albums is titled ''La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie)'' after the Rossini opera (see below).
* [[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]
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