One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret that's never been told.
Is this how you count your crows? Do you have a different way?
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret that's never been told.
Is this how you count your crows? Do you have a different way?
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Maybe it's because there's no magpies here, so we have to settle for crows. But I was surprised to see magpies in Nevada. They aren't like the european magpies. They're much bigger, and more salt-and-pepper, it seems to me.
Nobody could tell me if they steal bright little things clean away, either.
We have a lot of crows in my rural neck of the woods, not a day goes by that they aren't prophesying for me. On my way to work this morning it was two groups of two (double joy!) and one group of three (for a girl!) -- and then I found out that just as I hoped, the power was out at work and I got to come back home with my work laptop and do stuff from here, and I was happy. See, the crows were right!
Hey, do you know what the rule is for spilt cutlery? It means unexpected guests, I think, and women are forks, men are knives, and, I seem to recall, spoons are children. Did you ever hear that one?
BTW, the next fat-fantasy-with-maps on my reading list after Inda is yours, meaning the one that begins with Stormcaller [ETA: Whoops. Ironically sitting right next to a Moorcock sent to me by someone in Texas]. Cara Sposa bought it for me last Christmas (also a special order here in Kingston). Any thing you'd like to say about it before I get started?
Edited at 2011-08-31 07:27 pm (UTC)
Erm, caveats for Stormcaller.... Well, don't get 30 pages from the end and then stop because you've not worked it all out - that was one Amazon review that annoyed me slightly, thinking the end should actually be significant like the crazy person I am. Other than that I'd say, remember it's my first novel and the writing improves through the series! ;0)
Other than that, enjoy and let me know your thoughts!
I've never heard the specifics of knife/fork/spoon for dropped cutlery. The only thing I've heard is a dropped knife means a stranger is coming, no gender specified.