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The priest covers the chalice and we must cover each other.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

There is nary a feast or a party without a monk or a priest.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about feast

Give monks a wide berth, and as for priests just attend Mass.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Where there are monks and priests, there is adultery and beatings.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Who hopes for alms from the priests, winds up at the insane asylum.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

Cavaliers, priests, and dangerous places, speak nicely about them but keep your distance.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

In Polizzi you'll find water, fog, kites, priests with children, commissions and delegates.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about children, water

If the doctor is fasting it is bad for the priest.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about fasting, bad luck, bad

The devil climbs the bell tower in a priest's cassock.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about devil

Trust not your gossip to a priest who has been a friar.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

There are more motley dogs than the priest's.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish

Talk to a priest and die a thousand deaths.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai

The priest does not eat pilav every day.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about day

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

They do not want him in the village, he asks for the priest's house.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about home, house

Six things have no business in the world: a fighting priest, a coward knight, a covetous judge, a stinking barber, a soft-hearted mother, and an itchy baker.

Proverbs and old sayings French about affair, judges, world, mother, things