Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille)
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Proverb about envy and accomapnying story about Calum Cille's sister, 1901
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/94
Scope and Contents
Proverb about envy which reads 'Sgoiltidh am farmad a chlach - Envy will rend the stone' and accomapnying story about Calum Cille's [St Columba's] sister. The story tells how Columba's sister was going to the sheiling with another woman. Calum Cille told her to put a stone in her sack and when the woman asked her what she had in her sack to tell her that it was cheese. The woman wondered why the cheese was so big and Columba's sister said that she would not make a small cheese without making...
Dates:
1901