Just Fancy That!

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Jon
on December 12, 2007
in Briefly
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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.

1 Response to “Just Fancy That!”

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  1. 1 othermachines
    December 17, 2007 at 12:13 am

    Why take the risk? I’m eating mince pies EVERY day.

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