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   When a robin flies under a bush on a cold day there is going to be snow.
   When the snipe is heard roaring in the bog in the evening we are going to have a good day.
   When the curlew is heard roaring in the bog we are going to have rain.
   When the cranes fly over-head we are going to have rain.
   When the swallows fly low we are going to have rain.
   When crows fly low around in a circle cawing we are going to have rain.
   When the cuckoo is heard early in the Summer we are going to have a bad Summer.
   If you hear the cuckoo for the first time in the year fasting you will be dead before that time twelve month and the way your looking at that time you will be going that direction before long.
   If you split a blackbirds tongue with a sixpence he would be able to talk like a parrot.
   Seagulls on land are the sign of storm on sea.

   1 Magpie means sorrow.
   2 Magpie means Joy.
   3 Magpie means for a wedding.
   4 Magpie means for a letter.
   5 Magpie means for silver
   6 Magpies means for gold
   7 Magpies means for a story you will never hear told.

   

   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
         1. bird-lore (~2,478)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Vera Brady

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Shercock, Co. Cavan