Folklore of Women Author:Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer 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 f... more »lich 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 ...« less