Search in folklore: forehead

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Whatever is written on the forehead is always seen.

Proverbs and old sayings

To remove a fly from a friend's forehead never use a hatchet.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about use

Better bend the neck than bruise the forehead.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Your friend, one doesn't stare at his forehead, one stares at his stomach.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about eyes, man

Better bend the back than bruise the forehead.

Proverbs and old sayings English

In the forehead and the eye The lecture of the mind doth lie.

Proverbs and old sayings French about mind, lie

You cannot break a wall with your forehead.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

Force a fool to pray and he'll crack his forehead.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about force, police, pray

You cannot break through a wall with your forehead.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about contentment

If you make a fool to pray to God, he will hurt forehead.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about pray, god, contentment

Death considers not the fairest forehead.

Proverbs and old sayings Welsh about death

Christmas traditions and superstitions

In many romanian villages, in Christmas Eve, exists the tradition to smear the cattles and stables with garlic to keep away the bad spiritis. The people are smeared as well with garlic on the forehead,...

Traditions and superstitions Romanian

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about use

If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about objects, envy, secret