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Posted Wed Mar 26, 2008 4:00 am...

The Robin

The Robin is traditionally associated with the winter months, but it is actually around all year and can often be seen waiting for a gardener to unearth a worm or two. Traditionally, Robins have always been considered birds of omen and protected from harm.

Robins are very territorial and it is unusual to see more than one in any location. To see two indicates prosperity for the person who sees them. To encourage this you might like to have two bird tables at opposite ends of your garden. It has long been held that it is very unlucky for a Robin to come into the house, even to the point where cards bearing pictures of Robins are discarded rather than kept or sent.

Having said that, my own family tradition held that a Robin on the doorstep meant a gift was on its way. A Robin tapping on the widow of a sick room was said to presage the death of the person within. If it tapped on another window, it would mean the death of a person in the family.

To harm a Robin would also bring ill-fortune, and anyone caught doing so would risk being paraded through the town with the dead bird around their neck. In certain parts of the country, stealing a Robin's egg would mean being ostracized by the rest of the community. A feather which has fallen from a Robin is a very powerful ingredient in prosperity magic when it is burned in the flame of a green candle.

"He sees most clearly who stands and looks."

~from the Real Witches Year by Kate West

If you cant explain it simply, you dont understand it well enough.-- Albert Einstein

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