06-01-2020, 12:22 AM
In Russia we say what can be loosely translated as: "may I sink underground on this very place if... "
I've never thought of that in that light, interpreting the "take" in the sense of "using" (or "casting") the spell, where the spell is impersonated in "mich" (like "take me" on the bottles in the Alice tales by Lewis Carroll).
Something in the vein of "if anything herein written is false, the devil may take me" is a fit ending for a book indeed, for (as Burns has it) "some books are lies frae end to end".
But that leaves inexplicable why the leading portion would be encrypted. Let alone, we don't see any mention of the devil here, and the "o" is left out again. What I like about "o" as the Swiss variant of "auch" is that "auch" = also. Why "also"? Because the spell is complementary to something. That's what my recent blog post is about.
I've never thought of that in that light, interpreting the "take" in the sense of "using" (or "casting") the spell, where the spell is impersonated in "mich" (like "take me" on the bottles in the Alice tales by Lewis Carroll).
Something in the vein of "if anything herein written is false, the devil may take me" is a fit ending for a book indeed, for (as Burns has it) "some books are lies frae end to end".
But that leaves inexplicable why the leading portion would be encrypted. Let alone, we don't see any mention of the devil here, and the "o" is left out again. What I like about "o" as the Swiss variant of "auch" is that "auch" = also. Why "also"? Because the spell is complementary to something. That's what my recent blog post is about.