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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
October 13, 2005
In China, they say the singing of a magpie foretells happiness and good luck. The Manchu people consider the bird a sacred animal.
But to the Anglo-Saxon, the presence of the black and white long-tailed bird has a different meaning. In places like Yorkshire, Oxfordshire and Essex they believe....
