A4 Snag Breac/Snag Bruic/Francach (Magpie)

Snag Breac/Snag Bruic/Francach (magpie)🐦☘️A group is a Parliment. While top 10 birds of Eire - not native. Most intelligent - only bird to pass mirror test. Solomom Richards 17 Century "Chronicles of Wex" sighted the arrival of a small flock in far South Wexford.

Phillip O'Sullivan Beare (Irish soldier & famous writer died in 17 Century) gave the name "snag breac" previously given to greater woodpecker ,which became extinct but the name transferred across. Similar to the Crane and Heron.

Mag = Margaret = women in general   

         = call sounded like idle chat

Pie = Proto-Indo-Euro = pointed [beak/tail]

       = piebald pattern

Likes shiny things & and is seen as a thief & associated with witchcraft. Apparently, the only bird not to comfort Jesus = bad

Only bird not on Noah's Ark.

1 for sorrow

2 for joy

3 for a girl

4 for a boy

5 for silver

6 for gold

7 secret never to be told

8 for a wish

9 for a kiss

10 for a suprise, careful not to miss

11 for health

12 for wealth

13 beware it's the devil himself

Or

1 for sorrow

2 for joy

3 for a funeral

4 for birth

5 for heaven

6 for hell

7 for the devil his ownself