The teen-age son of Jeff Jacoby, a conservative columnist for the Boston Globe, went missing from school Monday. He was found yesterday in Times Square, http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/ ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago, I posted a "charm" from Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland collected by Lady Wilde (1887) which had been identified as being "AGAINST ENEMIES" (p. 190) Three things are of the Evil One -- an evil eye;
an evil tongue;
an evil mind.

Three things are of God - and these are what Mary told her Son, for ( Read more... )

Air an dàrna là deug den Nollaig, chuir m' eudail thugam fhìn ( Read more... )

Air an aona là deug den Nollaig, chuir m' eudail thugam fhìn ( Read more... )

It just occurred to me that I forgot yesterday (wasn't feeling well, bha òrrais agam).

Air an t-seachdamh là den Nollaig, chuir m' eudail thugam fhìn ( Read more... )

Cha mhòr diochuimhne orm a phostadh seo.

Air an t-siathamh là den Nollaig, chuir m' eudail thugam fhìn
sia seòid le sùrdag, còig cailleachan-oidhche, ceithir cuthagan
trì cearcan-fraoich, dà chalman agus smeòrach le ceileireadh binn.

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On the sixth day of Christmas, my sweetheart sent to me ( Read more... )

Air a' chòigeamh là den Nollaig, chuir m' eudail thugam fhìn
còig cailleachan-oidhche, ceithir cuthagan, trì cearcan-fraoich, dà chalman
agus smeòrach le ceileireadh binn.

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On the fifth day of Christmas my sweetheart gave to me
five owls hooting, four cuckoos, three ruffled grouse, two white doves and a song thrush sweetly singing.

cailleach- ( Read more... )

Air a' cheathramh là den Nollaig, chuir m' eudail thugam fhìn
ceithir cuthagan, trì cearcan-fraoich, dà chalman
agus smeòrach le ceileireadh binn.

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On the fourth day of Christmas my sweetheart gave to me
four cuckoos, three ruffled grouse, two white doves and a song thrush sweetly singing.

The word cuthag means cuckoo (name derives from the ( Read more... )

Air an treas là den Nollaig, chuir m' eudail thugam fhìn
trì cearcan-fraoich, dà chalman agus smeòrach le ceileireadh binn.

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On the third day of Christmas my sweetheart gave to me
Three ruffled grouse, two white doves and a song thrush sweetly singing.


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Air an dàrna là den Nollaig, chuir m' eudail thugam fhìn
dà chalman agus smeòrach le ceileireadh binn.

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On the second day of Christmas, my sweetheart sent to me
Two doves and a song thrush sweetly singing.


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