{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/sfft/sfft20.htm","path":"neu/celt/sfft/sfft20.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/sfft/sfft20.htm","text":"Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, by George Douglas, [1901]\nHERE is a bit of crow language,--a conversation with a frog. When it is repeated in Gaelic it can be made absurdly like the notes of the creatures.\n\"Ghille Criosda mhic Dhughail cuir a nois do mh\u00e0g.\"\nChrist's servant, son of Dugald, put up thy paw.\n\"Tha eagal orm, tha eagal orm, tha eagal orm.\"\nI fear.\n\"Gheibh thu c\u00f2ta gorm a's l\u00e9ine. Gheibh thu c\u00f2ta gorm a's l\u00e9ine.\"\nThou shalt have a blue coat and a shirt.\nThen the frog put up his hand and the hoodie took him to a hillock and began to eat him, saying,\n\"Biadh dona lom! 's bu dona riabh thu.\"\nBad bare meat and bad wert thou ever.\n\"Caite bheil do ghealladh math a nis?\" said the frog.\nWhere is thy good promise now?\n\"Sann ag ol a bha sinn an latha sin. Sann ag ol a bha sinn an latha sin.\"\nIt is drinking we were on that day.\n\"Toll ort a ruid ghrannda gur beag feola tha air do chramhan.\"\n\"Toll ort!\" said the hoodie.\nA hole in thee, ugly thing! how little flesh is on thy bones.","title":"Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales: Stories of Animals: Frog and Crow","type":"page"}