Folk-Lore of Women

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: s power, nce. Savage. Ehing to be a woman's alter Savage or so sweet so intense for woman. ?. another is fcording to a men who: t]E anger of a flich one can Eirbial experi- constant in ]as additionalwarning when it is remembered that No woman is too silly not to have a genius for spite ?added to which may be quoted this piece of German proverb lore: A woman's vengeance knows no bounds; and, again: A woman, when inflamed by love or hatred, will do anything. To the same effect is the French saying: Women's counsels are ever cruel, the warning being added that you should believe only one word in forty that a woman speaks, a fact which is said to be specially true when she is anxious to emphasise her expressions of hatred against her unfortunate victim. And we are reminded that the hate of a woman is all the more to be dreaded, for even when at her best we are told that Women like good wine are a secret poison, and that whereas women's love is dangerous, their hate is fatal. This view, too, is the same everywhere, and a well-known Hindustani maxim tells us that the rage of a woman, a player, and a bull is something dreadful; but it consoles us by adding that A woman's threats and goblin's stones break no bones. And, as in love, so in hate, a woman is mentally proverbially blind, seeing nothing but what is thoroughly bad in the object of her hatred; and hence the popular proverb, of which there are many versions: Hatred is blind as well as love. f the grandest d never have fsonde drank trong that it bm his grave Svined about three times ever wound Sfsonde. ]pcuring love: of all kinds Ithe fair sex; Itcur now and er selling, or hase, various ng the affections of others. Going back to early times, it is well known that ...