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8Proverbs on Trees- part 8
The dry leaf does not sink at once when it falls into the water.
Dead tree does not yield dew.
A sapless tree is a leafless tree.
The little tree that saved you from the buffalo, you turn and cut it for a post.
The bark of one tree will not adhere to another tree.
Meaning – the people of one tribe cannot assimilate the customs of another.
A tree is not twice struck by lightning.
Meaning- if you have to punish a person or a tribe, do it so thoroughly that it will not require to be done a second time.
If a dead tree falls, it carries it with a live one.
Meaning – if a criminal is punished, his innocent relations suffer as well.
If a tree trunk is not rotten, no fungus grows on it.
When a tree falls it leans on its neighbour.
He that is on one side does not have the tree fall on him.
A tree is brought into trouble by its own fruit.
The tree which has been too much for the baboon, the monkey cannot climb.
The wind does not uproot but the largest trees.
Where the trees are there are no builders.
—-African proverbs
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Tamil proverbs continue……………………..
4235. நான் இட்ட மருந்தும் போக ஒட்டாது நன்னாரி வேரும்
சாக ஒட்டாது.
The medicine I gave, as a charm, will not allow him to go; the sarasparilla, an ingredient, will not suffer him to die.
The proverb relates to charms, in which, as in magical arts generally, the Hindus in every part of India and Ceylon, have great faith. Servants have recourse to this device, and lovers also, for the purpose of influencing the affections and will of those whose favour or compliance they desiderate.
The usual method, as indicated in the proverb, is to administer the food of the party the ingredients that are fitted for the purpose contemplated; of course the preparation is surreptitiously added to the food of which it is known the individual is about to partake.
A gentleman of my acquaintance recently dismissed all his servant and took into his service a person in whom he appeared to place the greatest confidence. The neighbours and the discarded servant believe that the gentleman acted under a charm.
Some of the things used for certain purposes as charms, may not be mentioned here. The brain of a male child &c. is considered very(?) potent.
Professional magicians are employed when stolen property or buried treasure is sought. The magician uses a black preparation, a small quantity of which is placed on a betel leaf and put into the hands of an attendant boy, who is directed to look steadily at it, aided by the light of a lamp, while the magician invokes the presence and aid of certain deities. When the boy announces a phenomenon, say a tree, monkey or a dog or a goblin, he is told to do obeisance to(?) to encourage further discoveries. The earth may cleave as under(?) and reveal the thing wanted, or a scene, including a house and certain persons going and coming, water &c., may appear, when the boy proceeds to describe the objects before him, as an earthen pot, or bangle &e., &c., as the case may be.
To discover a thief among suspected persons sometimes dry grain as rice may be given to be eaten. The person whose mouth secretes no moisture for mastication is supposed to be the thief. –Rev.Percival
4273. நின்ற மரத்தில் நெடு மரம் போனால் நிற்கும் மரமே நெடு மரம்.
When the lofty trees are felled, the remaining trees look tall.
4275. நின்றால் நெடு மரம் விழுந்தால் பனை மரம்.
When standing, a tall tree, when fallen, a palmyrah tree.
4316. நுனிக்கொம்பில் ஏறி அடிக்கொம்பு வெட்டுவார்களா?
Having ascended to the extremity of the bough, will they sever it from the tree?
4429. பசு மரத்தில் தைத்த ஆணிபோல.
Like a nail driven into a green tree.
4442. பச்சை மரம் படப் பார்ப்பான்.
He can stare so as to make a green tree decay.
4443. பச்சை மரத்திற்கு இத்தனை என்றாற் பட்டமரத்திற்கு எத்தனை?
If so much to the green tree, how much to the dry?
4538. பருத்தி புடைவையாய்க் காய்த்தது.
The cotton tree produced cloth.
4541. பருமரத்தை அண்டிய பல்லியும் சாகாது.
If sheltered near a large tree even a lizard will not die.
4552. பல மரம் கண்ட தச்சன் ஒரு மரம் வெட்டமாட்டான்.
The carpenter who is acquainted with various sorts of wood, is not able to fell a tree.
4556. பலா உத்தமம், மா மத்திபம், பாதிரி அதமம்.
The jack tree is the best, the mango is good, the pathri tree is indifferent.
–subham—
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