From ghoulies and ghosties
and long-leggity beasties
and things that go bump in the night—
Good Lord deliver us!
Scots? Irish? Cornish? Folklore or fakelore? The convoluted history of “things that go bump in the night”…
http://jsbookreader.blogspot.com/2014/04/things-that-go-bump-in-night.html
#Scottish #Irish #Cornish #folklore #Halloween #supernatural
The earliest potential source located for the “quaint of litany” is David Fergusson’s (d. 1598) SCOTTISH PROVERBS (1641), which provides the pithy
“God keip us from gyrcarlings & all long nebbed things”
Page from the 1924 Scottish Text Society edition, via the National Library of Scotland 👇
https://digital.nls.uk/publications-by-scottish-clubs/archive/106944457
![SCOTTISH PROVERBS.
452] Gaines slokens paines
Good aill is wynes eveinis [1]
Good aill maks good saill Gaunting [2] is wil wanting
God send us better handsell [3] nor fart at the masking [4]
Gar ane devill ding ane other
God let my honestie never ly on your tongue rootis
God keip us from gyrcarlings [5] & all long nebbed things
460] Go to your bed your bellie rumbles & ilk ane toord over other tumbles
Go to your bed god nor yow be dryt it
God help us all to heaven for ill can we climb
God let never the well go dry that ilk body trowes [6] water be in
God send you a wise goodman [7] els yow wil fill the cuntry ful of fools
Giv it a pavie [8] fley it [9] & lild [10]
God mak al weil as Maister Wm Kellie sayes to his sones spurs
Giv good respect to al fear nather grit nor small
Go near it
God let sorow never go so near your heart
470] Grand wind grand treason. [11]
1 equal.
2 [yawning, gaping.]
3 [luck.]
4 [mashing (mixing malt with warm water).]
5 witches.
6 [believes.]
7 [husband.]
8 [shake.]
9 [warm.]
10 drink it off quickly [lill = hang out the tongue].
11 [This proverb is in a later hand.]](/images/status/6df0c9a7-920f-459a-9dcb-c666539ea57b.jpeg "SCOTTISH PROVERBS.
452] Gaines slokens paines
Good aill is wynes eveinis [1]
Good aill maks good saill Gaunting [2] is wil wanting
God send us better handsell [3] nor fart at the masking [4]
Gar ane devill ding ane other
God let my honestie never ly on your tongue rootis
God keip us from gyrcarlings [5] & all long nebbed things
460] Go to your bed your bellie rumbles & ilk ane toord over other tumbles
Go to your bed god nor yow be dryt it
God help us all to heaven for ill can we climb
God let never the well go dry that ilk body trowes [6] water be in
God send you a wise goodman [7] els yow wil fill the cuntry ful of fools
Giv it a pavie [8] fley it [9] & lild [10]
God mak al weil as Maister Wm Kellie sayes to his sones spurs
Giv good respect to al fear nather grit nor small
Go near it
God let sorow never go so near your heart
470] Grand wind grand treason. [11]
1 equal.
2 [yawning, gaping.]
3 [luck.]
4 [mashing (mixing malt with warm water).]
5 witches.
6 [believes.]
7 [husband.]
8 [shake.]
9 [warm.]
10 drink it off quickly [lill = hang out the tongue].
11 [This proverb is in a later hand.]")
