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Folk Wisdom

The following are some of the more well known folk wisdoms/superstitions in the Silver Lands. Not everyone believes in them, but everyone has heard stories of them working.

Never let a goat see you kiss.
The soul of a man who breaks a mirror will wander the multi-verse after death.
Never argue at a crossroads.
A drowned man must be buried with a stone in his mouth to prevent his spirit from haunting.
If a man suspects his wife doesn't love him, he should walk three times around an oak at dawn.
If a woman suspects her husband is cheating, she should break an egg in his bathwater.
Should a horse kill a man, a red eye must be painted on its forehead.
Don't touch a baby, a mother and a tombstone all in one day.
3 crows chasing a robin is bad luck. 3 robins chasing a crow means watch the weather.
Pour fish oil on a unruly son or he'll bring you sorrow.
A kiss is worth a copper, a dance is worth a rhyme, a broken sack is useless, love lives for all time.
The child of 3 fathers is safe from evil.
To make a man yours, slip a locket of your hair into his pouch.
To make a woman yours, drop a smooth pebble into the well where she'll take her next drink.
If you see 3 moons you are blessed.
The tail of a fox dead of old age is good luck.
Gold is made by honeybees of molten lava travelling through the earth. To see one is to be blessed by Jordonkor.

Magpie Rhymes

Some people think that seeing a group of magpies may have some sort of meaning depending on how many there are. There are many different rhymes that tell what the meaning may be. The rhymes have an unsavory reputation, and are not repeated in polite company. Children are slapped for saying them.

1 for joy
2 for homes
3 for death
and 4 for bones
5 for dwarves in halls of stone
6 for trees from murders blood grown.

1 for spirit
2 for life
3 for mothers
and 4 for strife
5 for luck and its glad tale
6 for flesh that soon fails

1 for fish
2 for boats
3 for cows
and 4 for goats.
5 for gnomes and ticking wheels
6 for death from ice cold steel

1 for earth
2 for sky
3 for ghosts that pass you by
4 for love
5 for hate
6 for the souls at the Bleak Gate

1 for dogs
2 for cats
3 for children
and 4 for rats
5 for elves in halls of boughs
6 for Loromu and his black crown