We used to called these birds good luck birds when we were small .....( am sorry ! actually don't know what they are called....they look as if they belong to the same family as Mynna.....) well not really good luck because it would depend on how many you see together....for example one stood for sorrow.....two for joy ...three for letter.....four for boys (for the girls) and girls( for the boys)....five for silver ...six for gold .......seven for secrets never to be told......and eight onwards would be all good luck.....so any one seeing one bird would keep hunting for another one till she sees a pair or else the day was doomed.....and if she happens to be in a school like ours where we had something like bad marks and good marks in our respective houses...well you have had it . One bird would surely mean one bad mark for what ever reason.....lol !!!! two was for joy meaning the day was good .....three for letters ( may be now it would be emails ....including a lot of junk emails ...lol !!!.) and the best one was number four.....lol....which means boys/girls what ever...so who ever has a crush on any one would look forward to seeing him/her....and it would end there. It would be like going Ga ga over someone and then the euphoria dies down till another moment. All this sounds silly now and we have a good laugh about it when ever we remember them but when we were in school it was taken very seriously.....no one could change our thoughts.Kids that we were!!!!! lol.
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I was walking to canteen with pakistani colleague ansar when i saw 2 pigeons..i instantly said..hey lucky man..he asked really? i said whether v believe or not, at least it helps in positive thinking..v had a hearty laugh...of course, there is nothing to laugh about..but v r kids after all...lol
aah reminded of childhood days..thx 4 sharing
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Yeah nitu, you refreshed my old memories, even we used to do same during our school time.
i saw them so do i also get good luck ????
lol
They aren't mynas? Till now I thought they were. :)
And I didn't know there existed good luck beyond 2. So whenever I saw 3 of them I associated the odd number = bad luck theory and look for another one. If I didn't find one, hell, it's a superstition :D
And yeah as Ramesh said - it helps in positive thinking too :)
confused....pigeons or peacocks ?
You're right... they ARE Mynahs. Not the talking Jungle Mynahs but the Common Mynah.
Funny, we used to say the same thing about the Jungle Crows.
In childhood, we talk of things which later look silly, but give us so much of joy.
We have lots of sparrows in or area, too.
They are Mynas, and I share the same feeling when I was a kid.
A Kid will try to find happiness in every aspects of his/her life and as soon as we grow up, we forget our basis...
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