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Chloe Rhodes

One for Sorrow

  • dariadiahas quoted3 years ago
    Curses, like chickens, come home to roost
    This medieval version of our modern saying ‘what goes around comes around’ has its origins in fourteenth-century notions of morality. Chaucer gave expression to the idea at the end of the fourteenth century in ‘The Parson’s Tale’, with the line:
    And ofte tyme swiche cursynge wrongfully retorneth agayn to hym that curseth, as a bryd that retorneth agayn to his owene nest.
  • dariadiahas quoted3 years ago
    In traditional fishing communities, it is unlucky to kill a seagull because they are believed to embody the souls of drowned fishermen
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