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A blow from a frying-pan blacks, though it may not hurt.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

A piece of iron can only become what the blacksmith says it should become.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian

It was Blacksmith's guilt, but the Gypsy was hanged.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish about guilt, gypsies

The locksmith is the guilty one, but the blacksmith hangs.

Proverbs and old sayings Polish

In blacksmith's house, wood skewer.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about home, house

Two blacks do not make a white.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

No matter how thoroughly a crow may wash, it remains ever black.

Proverbs and old sayings about magic

Don't kiss blacksmith's daughter.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about kiss

At the pharmacy don't taste, at the blacksmith's don't touch.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Two blacks don't make a white.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

The bath has sworn not to whiten the blackamoor.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Tell your affairs in the market-place, and one will call them black and another white.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about magic

What business does a dog have in the shop of the blacksmith.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about affair

When a miller fights with a chimney sweep, the miller gets black and the chimney sweep gets white.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about magic

Liberation of prisoners

This spell is a blessing of release, which describes how Idisi (in Viking or Scandinavian mythology, Idisi are fate goddesses) free from their shackles warriors caught during battle. The last two lines contain the magic...

Spells and incantations Danish

Art is the right hand of nature.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about art, magic, nature, rightness, americans

The greatest art is the art of life.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about art, magic, life, americans