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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;daveydempsey, post: 1374981, member: 22&quot;]Birds in the home are deemed unlucky in many parts around here among the fishing community.</p><p><br /></p><p>Real birds, pictures of birds and bird ornaments are a big no no.</p><p><br /></p><p>My late mother would not have anything resembling a bird in the house, even a picture with a distant seabird or any in trees.</p><p><br /></p><p>It stems from the fishing trawlers leaving port, if a bird was on the mast it was said the trawler would not return.</p><p>In 1968 we lost three big trawlers and 58 men, there was supposedly Seagulls on each ship when they set sail.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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