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Popular Superstitions: The Magpie (colour litho)

Popular Superstitions: The Magpie (colour litho)
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Popular Superstitions: The Magpie (colour litho)
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English School, (20th century) / English
Location
Private Collection
Medium
colour lithograph
Date
C20th AD
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The Magpie. The superstition about Magpies is handed down to us in the following rhyme:- "One means anger, Two brings mirth, Three a wedding, Four a birth; Five is Heaven, Six is Hell, But Seven's the very De'il's ainsel." This very mixed reputation of the Magpie's is probably due to the fact that primitive man regarded white as a sacred or lucky colour, black as the reverse. The Magpie being both black and white in general appearance, he decided that the bird could be neither definitely lucky nor unlucky; apparently it might be either, according to circumstances. Illustration for one of a set of 25 cigarette cards on the subject of Popular Superstitions issued by Godfrey Phillips in 1930.

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20th century / white / colour / luck / anger / feeling / knowledge / hell / wedding / birth / black / bird / heaven / magpie / superstition / print / mzprint / stereoscopic card

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