Popular Romances of the West of England: Popular Superstitions: The Robin and the Wren
THE ROBIN AND THE WREN
"THOSE who kill a robin or a wran,
Will never prosper, boy or man."
This feeling is deeply impressed on every young mind; there are few, therefore, who would injure either of those birds.
I 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.