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Spice is black, but it has a sweet smack.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about magic

Every white hath its black, and every sweet its sour.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about magic

The frying-pan said to the kettle, Avaunt, black brows!

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about magic

A red beard and a black head, catch him with a good trick and take him dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about magic, heads, good, good luck

Crows are black the world over.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about magic, world

A black shoe makes a blythe heart.

Proverbs and old sayings about magic, heart

Priests dressed in black bring bad tidings, in white they take you to the cemetery.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about magic, bad luck, bad

A black cow also gives white milk.

Proverbs and old sayings about magic

In the darkness all cows are black.

Proverbs and old sayings Czechoslovak about magic

They who don't kill pigs must not expect black-puddings.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about magic

Said the frying pay to the kettle, Stand off, black bottom.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about magic

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about eyes, magic, love

A malicious man is like a coal sack -- black on the outside and even blacker inside.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about magic, man

Give the white child so that the black child doesn't cry.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about children, magic

Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

Proverbs and old sayings about magic

Men make the earth black from green leaves.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about magic, earth, man

A white day sheds light, a black day sheds darkness.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about magic, light, day

Death is the black camel that kneels before every door.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about magic, death

Pot, your bottom is black. Yours is blacker than me.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about magic

Even though it is black, the raven loves its young.

Proverbs and old sayings about magic