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Ye'll neither dance or haud the candle.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about dance

He 'II neither dance nor hold the candle.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about dance

You don't need a candle to look for a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian about need, contentment

It does no harm now and then to burn a candle for the devil.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian about devil

You don't light candles to old saints.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about saints, light, old, olderness, contentment

By candle light, neither women nor cloth.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about light

Around and around, the moth dies in the candle flame.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

An absent saint gets no candles.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about absent, saints

Unshared joy is an unlighted candle.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about joy

Hidden joy is an extinguished candle.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about joy

When the corsair promises masses and candles, it goes ill with the galley.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.

Proverbs and old sayings about spirit, man

A liar's candle will burn until bed-time.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about time

The best candle is understanding.

Proverbs and old sayings Welsh

If I dealt in candles, the sun wouldn't set; if I dealt in shrouds, people would stop dying.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about sun, people

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

What lives on its own substance and dies when it devours itself?
Candle

Riddles

The life of an old man can be compared with the flame of a candle in a drought.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about life, man, old, olderness