The Unfinishable Bread

I There was a housewife who used to bake her white bread in cream and butter alone but it was little that her housefolk could finish of such bread – for its overly richness. The housewoman knew to bake her bread in such manner that nobody ever observed of her labours. One time, a farm-hand

Of Gauss Mother Rites and Associates

By the faith of the ancient Latvians – Vilce* was the spirit to care for their abundance. Meanwhile, Gauss Mother was the one to hinder prosperity or to prevent overindulgence. Even as a boy, I remember the old people uttering (upon tasting of any newly made meal), ‘Dievs* give gauss, Dievs give satiety!’ As her

The Gauss Mother Tales

Index The Unfinishable Bread Of Gauss Mother Rites and Associates Note: There are many sprites revered in order to enhance general or specialized prosperity as well as speediness of labours. Gauss Mother, on the contrary, is invoked to slow things down, to halter some proceedings (from the Latvian ‘gauss’ – ‘slow’, ‘sluggish’, ‘tardy’, ‘lingering’). Over