In the seasonal song Twelve Days of Christmas people usually sing “Four calling birds” but the correct words are actually “Four Colley birds” an old name for blackbirds. Also, according to my Encyclopaedia of Superstition, anyone who eats a mince pie on every day of the twelve days of Christmas (26 December – 6 January) will enjoy twelve months of good fortune in the following year.
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Why take the risk? I’m eating mince pies EVERY day.