<P> In the Counting Crows song "A Murder of One", the lyrics contain a modified version of the rhyme . The rhyme is also the origin of the group's name . </P> <P> Also mentioned in book four of The Mortal Instruments, City of Fallen Angels, by Cassandra Clare . The character Simon reflects on his mother teaching him the rhyme as a child . </P> <P> Ashe Corven recites a version of the rhyme in the 1996 film The Crow: City of Angels, with crows in place of magpies . </P> <P> The rhyme is in part 5 of Monday, January 12 in the mystery Through the Evil Days by Julia Spencer - Fleming when a crow caws once in a tense winter scene, leaving a character who is visualizing a grim outcome to hope for a second caw . </P>

One for sorrow two for luck three for a wedding four for death