Magpies: Sorrow or Joy?

What should you say when you see a lone magpie? How close do two magpies have to be for sorrow to turn to joy? And what do dead nuns have to do with it all?

All these questions – and more – are answered by celebrated folklorist corvidologists Professor Margaret Pye and Doctor James Crowe in this edited transcript of a live debate at Dullards College, Cambridge, in August 2025.

Every copy comes with a FREE Lucky Feather™, endorsed by Professor Pye*.

*Please see the accompanying disclaimer from lawyers representing Doctor Crowe.

A5, 16 pages with a card cover (plus a scuzzy old feather and a handwritten luggage label)