animalMagpieBeings · NatureMagpie as an animal people have named and used. Collected shine, clever theft, bold chatter — one living kind, not a single symbol.Hellenic religionMagpie appears in Hellenic religion.Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 5 turns the Pierides into magpies after they lose their contest with the Muses. A named magpie metamorphosis in that poem, not crow/raven Coronis speech and not jay as the same bird.from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CEappears in · sourced · documentedsourcesMetamorphoses · OvidOvid, Metamorphoses.