Guernsey Folk Lore / a collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that island

by Sir Edgar MacCulloch

Repeat these words thrice over the burn, breathing thereon each time:—

“Feu de Dieu, perds ta chaleur,

Comme Judas perdit sa couleur,

Quand il trahit notre Seigneur,

Au jardin des oliviers.”[201]

[201] Editor’s Note.—Another form is as follows.—

Brulure, brulure, mollis ta chaleur,

Comme Judas perdit sa couleur

En trahissant notre Seigneur.

—From John de Garis, Esq.