Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 26, 2025
Lindsay possessed the power of overlooking cattle, which was considered an evil gift, and in some mysterious manner connected with the evil spirit, and as they remembered for superstition, like guilt, always possesses a good memory that even in his young days, when little more than a child, her son Harry was remarkable for having eyes of a different color, from which circumstance he was even then called Harry na Suil Gloir, they naturally inferred that his appearance in the country boded nothing good; that, of course, he had the Evil Eye, as every one whose eyes differed, as his did, had; and that the thunder and lightning, the rain which drowned the bonfires, but, above all, the blood-shower, were indications that the mother and son were to be feared and avoided as much as possible, especially the latter.
Goodwin, "and then we shall receive your visits with pleasure." Woodward then shook hands with him and his wife, and wished them a good morning. On his way home worthy Suil Balor began to entertain reflections upon his prospects in life that he felt to be rather agreeable.
That, however, which was most remarkable in his features was the extraordinary fact that his eyes were each of a different color, one being black and piercing in its gleam, and the other gray; from which circumstance he was known from his childhood by the name of Harry na Suil Gloir Suil Gloir being an epithet always bestowed by the Irish upon persons who possessed eyes of that unnatural character.
"Father of heaven!" they exclaimed in a low, earnest voice; "but why, Barney?" they asked in a condensed whisper. "Why! Why is he called Harry na Suil Balor for? Can you tell me that?" "Why, bekaise his two eyes isn't one color." "And why aren't they one color? Can you tell me that?" "O, the sorra step farther I can go in that question."
"If I know?" said Barney, rather offended; "maybe I don't know, and maybe I do, if it came to that. Any body, then, that has two eyes of different colors always has the Evil Eye, or the Suil Balor, and has the power of overlookin'; and, between ourselves, Masther Harry has it.
"I remember well," said her father, "that when he was a boy of about six or seven he was called, by way of nickname, Harry na Suil Glair; and, indeed, the common report always has been that his mother possesses the evil eye against cattle, when she wishes to injure any neighbor that doesn't treat her with what she thinks to be proper and becoming respect.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking