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A blow from a frying-pan blacks, though it may not hurt.

A piece of iron can only become what the blacksmith says it should become.

It was Blacksmith's guilt, but the Gypsy was hanged.

The locksmith is the guilty one, but the blacksmith hangs.

In blacksmith's house, wood skewer.

Two blacks do not make a white.

No matter how thoroughly a crow may wash, it remains ever black.

Don't kiss blacksmith's daughter.

At the pharmacy don't taste, at the blacksmith's don't touch.

Two blacks don't make a white.

The bath has sworn not to whiten the blackamoor.

Tell your affairs in the market-place, and one will call them black and another white.

What business does a dog have in the shop of the blacksmith.

When a miller fights with a chimney sweep, the miller gets black and the chimney sweep gets white.

Morning has broken:

Morning has broken, like the first morning,
Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird.
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning,
Praise for them springing fresh from the word.

Sweet the rain's new fall,...

Liberation of prisoners

This spell is a blessing of release, which describes how Idisi (in Viking or Scandinavian mythology, Idisi are fate goddesses) free from their shackles warriors caught during battle. The last two lines contain the magic...

Grandma got run over by a reindeer


Grandma got run over by a reindeer
Walking home from our house Christmas eve.
You can say there's no such thing as Santa,
But as for me and Grandpa we believe.

She'd been drinking too much eggnog,...

Jolly old Saint Nicholas

Jolly old Saint Nicholas, lean your ear this way,
Don't you tell a single soul what I'm going to say.
Christmas eve is coming soon now, you dear old man,
Whisper what you'll bring to me, tell me if you can....

Art is the right hand of nature.

The greatest art is the art of life.