Search in folklore: curse

66 results

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about home, americans

Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost.

Proverbs and old sayings about home

Cursed cows have short horns.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Curse your wife at evening, sleep alone at night.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about sleep, night, wife

Curses are like chickens; they come home to roost.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about home

Curses are like processions: they return to whence they set out.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Curse well.

Proverbs and old sayings

Cursed is the home where the hen does the crowing.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about home

Curses: like chaff, who throws them, catches them.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Curses on accounts with relations.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Curses, like chickens, always come home to roost.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about home

Curses are like chickens, they always come home.

Proverbs and old sayings about home

Traditional Irish Curse

May the curse of Mary Malone and her nine blind illegitimate children chase you so far over the hills of Damnation that the Lord himself can't find you with a telescope.

Spells and incantations Irish

Traditional Wexford Curse

May the grass grow at your door and the fox build his nest on your hearthstone.
May the light fade from your eyes, so you never see what you love.
May your own blood rise against you, and the sweetest drink you...

Spells and incantations British

Beauty without virtue is a curse.

Proverbs and old sayings Azere about virtue, beauty

Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness

Proverbs and old sayings Chinese about light, old, olderness

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness

Proverbs and old sayings British about light, old, olderness

A hen's curses have never killed the eagle.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

If a tree is cursed even its shade is unclean.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

When a fool is cursed, he thinks he is being praised.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about being