One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy... We've all heard some variation on this counting rhyme involving magpies. It's actually a form of divination, predicting the future using the number of birds you see.

But how did magpies go from being a death omen to a symbol of general bad luck? And what variations on the rhyme are there?

Find out more in this week's episode of Fabulous Folklore!

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