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When the door is closed, you must learn to slide across the crack of the sill.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian

Patience can break through iron doors.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian about patience

The place of an uninvited guest is behind the door.

Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian

Night of the Saint Andrew

On the 30th of November, Romaian people is celebrating Saint Andrew, the spiritual patriarch of Romania.

The night before Saint Andrew's Eve is known as the night of the ghosts( strigoi), strigoi means in Romanian...

Traditions and superstitions Romanian

Holiday of Saint Nicolae

Saint Nicolae is the spiritual patriarch in Holland, Russia, Greece, France and in a lot of cities from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Belgium. He is known as the protector of poor people, sailors, tradesmen,...

Traditions and superstitions Romanian

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

The pot of water falls from your head when you have just reached the door of your homestead.

Proverbs and old sayings about heads, water

It is a person suffering from cold who will first think of closing the door.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about suffering, people

The words of the elders do not lock all the doors, they leave the right door open.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about rightness

If you haven't done anything evil then you shouldn't be worried about devils knocking on your door.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about haven

Earth is like a prison: we all go in through the same door, but we stay in different cells.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about earth

The man whose conscience is clear will never fear a knock on the door at midnight.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about conscience, fear, man
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