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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Are there any Superstitions you keep or any Old wives Tales you repeat, knowing they might be wrong?
*confession time* I still say ‘Morning Magpies’ if I see them and look for two. But that’s because I know they can be buggers for farmers and that’s the original of the superstition. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I do the magpie thing, and never walk under ladders either"
Me too, and I always make sure my daughter doesn't either when she is with me! But in fairness I think it's a sensible thing to do |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I was on a bus once and the kidninnfron kept turning round and pulling faces at me. So, as my mother used to tell me when I was younger, I told him his face would stay like that if the wind changes.
Without skipping a beat the little twat said "Well you can't say you weren't warned then...."    |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Hate the magpie thing ... never had a superstition until an accident where my friend and two horses nearly died. When eventually got out of hospital and I had managed to recover the horses and bring them home, the first thing she said to me? That's the first time I've never said good morning to a single magpie!!! Ffs  have to every time since!!! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I was on a bus once and the kidninnfron kept turning round and pulling faces at me. So, as my mother used to tell me when I was younger, I told him his face would stay like that if the wind changes.
Without skipping a beat the little twat said "Well you can't say you weren't warned then...." "
That kid will go far, fast thinking little so and so. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Snap OP, I do the same with magpies
Me too, i quite like Magpies though.  "
I find them fascinating birds. But I appreciate why the superstition came to be. I do wish the buggers would stop raiding my hen and duck houses. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Snap OP, I do the same with magpies
Me too, i quite like Magpies though.
I find them fascinating birds. But I appreciate why the superstition came to be. I do wish the buggers would stop raiding my hen and duck houses. "
Make a larsen trap and rehouse them ... |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Snap OP, I do the same with magpies
Me too, i quite like Magpies though.
I find them fascinating birds. But I appreciate why the superstition came to be. I do wish the buggers would stop raiding my hen and duck houses.
Make a larsen trap and rehouse them ... "
I let nature be. Their families have lived these lands much longer than me. I just need to our smart them. Had to do the same with the local badger, foxes and pine martins. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Snap OP, I do the same with magpies
Me too, i quite like Magpies though.
I find them fascinating birds. But I appreciate why the superstition came to be. I do wish the buggers would stop raiding my hen and duck houses. "
They are hooligans haha! Their cousins the crows tend to follow me around and have done throughout my life, seriously they do! My mum said when she would leave me in the garden as a baby, one would be sat on my pram watching me. It was probably trying to nick the dummy out of my mouth! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Snap OP, I do the same with magpies
Me too, i quite like Magpies though.
I find them fascinating birds. But I appreciate why the superstition came to be. I do wish the buggers would stop raiding my hen and duck houses.
Make a larsen trap and rehouse them ...
I let nature be. Their families have lived these lands much longer than me. I just need to our smart them. Had to do the same with the local badger, foxes and pine martins. "
Nice! We just moved them lol they used to eat our chicks!! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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Make a larsen trap and rehouse them ...
I let nature be. Their families have lived these lands much longer than me. I just need to our smart them. Had to do the same with the local badger, foxes and pine martins.
Nice! We just moved them lol they used to eat our chicks!! "
Oh no. I’m sorry to hear that, we don’t let the little ones join the free rangers until PoL. Until that point they’re kept undercover. Do you have a large flock? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Make a larsen trap and rehouse them ...
I let nature be. Their families have lived these lands much longer than me. I just need to our smart them. Had to do the same with the local badger, foxes and pine martins.
Nice! We just moved them lol they used to eat our chicks!!
Oh no. I’m sorry to hear that, we don’t let the little ones join the free rangers until PoL. Until that point they’re kept undercover. Do you have a large flock?"
Had ... we did! We ended up keeping them undercover but I liked seeing them altogether and we had a huge area fenced off for them. The larsen trap kept the jackdaws out perfectly tbh. And lots of livestock |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Snap OP, I do the same with magpies
Me too, i quite like Magpies though.
I find them fascinating birds. But I appreciate why the superstition came to be. I do wish the buggers would stop raiding my hen and duck houses. "
Whether it's an ill portent or not depends on how many you see. It's definitely not all bad luck. |
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"Snap OP, I do the same with magpies
Me too, i quite like Magpies though.
I find them fascinating birds. But I appreciate why the superstition came to be. I do wish the buggers would stop raiding my hen and duck houses.
They are hooligans haha! Their cousins the crows tend to follow me around and have done throughout my life, seriously they do! My mum said when she would leave me in the garden as a baby, one would be sat on my pram watching me. It was probably trying to nick the dummy out of my mouth! "
Or morrigan keeping an eye on you!  |
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"I follow a lot of them but have new ones too such as if I hear ‘local boy in the photograph’ by the stereophonics, my train commute will be a disaster so I’ll drive in"
Hope you don't listen to radio X then, seems to be on there all the time |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Snap OP, I do the same with magpies
Me too, i quite like Magpies though.
I find them fascinating birds. But I appreciate why the superstition came to be. I do wish the buggers would stop raiding my hen and duck houses.
They are hooligans haha! Their cousins the crows tend to follow me around and have done throughout my life, seriously they do! My mum said when she would leave me in the garden as a baby, one would be sat on my pram watching me. It was probably trying to nick the dummy out of my mouth!
Or morrigan keeping an eye on you! "
Lord knows do I need it! #dangertoherself.com |
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Absolute nonsence but I've convinced myself that I really will have sorrow if I only see one.
