one for sorrow two for joy clive woodall

So Bridgette, being the pragmatic Monster Hunter she is (if pulled from a long retirment), shoots four of them and says now it must be either joy or mirth, only for one magpie to tear the throat out of the other and say she's in for Hell. Then the otherworld light show kicks off and it's joined by five other magpies and Bridgette recites two versions of old rhyme and asks if she's in for Gold or Hell, only to be told it's the latter. In Once & Future, also by Gillen, it's Doubly Subverted, Issue 13 opens with a magpie flight down and interrupting Bridgette's smoke on the care home's deck.What can we say, the guy isn't only trouble, but also bad news. This becomes something of a theme for young Loki in later series, like Odin hearing 'thunder, and the laughter of magpies' when Thor and Loki need him in the Original Sin tie in of Loki: Agent of Asgard.Thieving Magpie is about magpies' compulsion to steal, particularly shiny objects see also Creepy Crows and Clever Crows. Note: This trope is not about magpies per se, but about the association of certain numbers of magpies with good or bad luck, and the rituals for warding the bad luck off. (Australian Magpies, on the other hand, are unrelated songbirds that just happen to bear a resemblance.) The rhyme-in all its manifold variations-is also used on occasion for crows. Magpies are members of the corvid family and relatives of ravens and crows. The idea that magpies are omens of the future has led to a flock of them being called a 'tidings of magpies'. Some of the 'warding off bad luck' superstitions are quick and only require a simple salute, while others are a bit more eccentric, involving pinching, spitting or saying certain phrases. These include, as the rhyme indicates, that they are omens (for good or ill) of the future and that the bad luck of a lone magpie must be warded off with a ritual of some sort. There are a number of superstitions surrounding magpies, black and white birds that feature in a lot of stories (especially in the British Isles). Nursery Rhyme (one of many variations, this one popularised as the theme song to Magpie * a British children's TV series, 1968-1980)

One for sorrow two for joy clive woodall