{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/prwe/prwe275.htm","path":"neu/eng/prwe/prwe275.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/prwe/prwe275.htm","text":"THE ROBIN AND THE WREN\n \u00a0\"THOSE who kill a robin or a wran,\n Will never prosper, boy or man.\"\nThis feeling is deeply impressed on every young mind; there are few, therefore, who would injure either of those birds.\nI remember that a boy in Redruth killed a robin: the dead robin was tied round his neck, and he was marched by the other boys through the town, all of them singing the above lines.","title":"Popular Romances of the West of England: Popular Superstitions: The Robin and the Wren","type":"page"}