favourite minor and major geases

[FailedSpotCheck]

Never sleep on a riverbank during a storm.
Never pet an animal you'll eat later.
Never drink from a river just downstream of washer-women.
Never sleep in a chariot.
Never sit on a Druid's Egg.
Always raise a full cup to the Full Moon.
Always bathe under a New Moon.
Never shave with your great-axe.
Never wet the hem of your kilt while fording a muddy river.
Always ford a river or stream by walking backwards.
Never kill an albino stag.
Never tip over a sleeping cow.
Never kill the dog of a blacksmith.
Never wield a craisech.
Never mock a woman with a moustache.
Never whistle at sea during a tempest.
Never make water against an oak taller than yourself.
Never sing in the presence of a bard.
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Never ride in a chariot with square wheels.
Never swim with sharks while wearing a suit made of meat.
Never moon a tribe of hungry cannibals.
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How many geis/geases(sp?) in this thread are from the comics?

 

[toothill man]

like the moon one :lol: and how many are from source :?

 

[The King]

Great! You should come more often there FailedSpotCheck.

 

[The King]

Never eat cooked meat

Never eat carrion

 

[toothill man]

never eat feathers
never were feathers
never upset a group of 5 swans

 

[The King]

Never touch a baby that isn't your own.

Never look straight at the sun or a thunder lightning

Never put off your boots in water

 

[toothill man]

never hit a member of your tribe

never allow a slur to your kin

 

[The King]

Never shave

Never watch the sun set

Never play with your own children

 

[FailedSpotCheck]

Never suffer your children to speak an untruth.
Never speak to a woman during her moon.
Always give fodder to birds and deer in winter--even if, as a result, you go hungry that day.
Never bathe by diving headfirst into a shallow body of water.
Never allow your own head to be submerged under water.
Always wash your face with one eye open.
Always offer your best weapon to the gods into a lake each year.
Never take a drink unless all around you can drink as well.
Always drink from the skull of your enemy.
Always make merry with every third woman you meet (as long as she is not of your kin!).
Never flip a tortoise onto its back, even in jest.
Never scold your horse.
Always kick a snoring dwarf.
Always leave one serving at the bottom of the cauldron: it is meant for the ancestors.
Always wipe your feet before entering one's home, a temple, or a holy grove.
Always greet a great oak taller than yourself.
Always hail an oak old enough to have known your great-great-great-great-great grandsire.
Never eat acorns.
Never allow your chariot to overrun an oak sapling.

 

[toothill man]

good work any more

 

[FailedSpotCheck]

Never step barefooted in animal spoor. :shock:
Always make a fire with cow-cakes.
Always feign madness in the company of Druids.
Always kiss a woman on the lips if she has slapped you.

 

[toothill man]

that last one is going to hurt :shock: :wink: :lol: :lol:

 

[FailedSpotCheck]

Never step barefooted in animal spoor. :shock:
Always make a fire with cow-cakes.
Always feign madness in the company of Druids.
Always kiss a woman on the lips if she has slapped you...

...and be sure to wear an iron cod-piece! :shock: :lol:

 

[toothill man]

and hope she has not invented the can opener :twisted:

 

[FailedSpotCheck]

Always spit on the severed head of a fallen foe.
Never get tied to a tree with a quarrelsome woman.
Always allow the old, infirm and very young to take meat before the able-bodied warriors.
Never allow dirt under your fingernails.
Never bathe yourself--have cumals do it instead, (and not mugs!)
Always wear woad.
Always drink water of rain and no other liquid.
Always cause a mark to be tattooed onto your body for every foe slain single-handedly.
Never use earth-power for spells [Meant for non-Druids/non-Drunes.]

 

[The King]

You have many interesting and great geases, FailedSpotCheck. 8)

 

[The King]

Never pull on the tail of a dog.

Never own any animal

Never hunt alone

 

[FailedSpotCheck]

You have many interesting and great geases, FailedSpotCheck. 8)

Many thanks, Sir!

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Never hunt with a cross-eyed kinsman!

 

[toothill man]

never sharpen your blade in your own shadow

 

[FailedSpotCheck]

Never gaze at your own reflection in the surface of water.

Always scrub your face and backside with poison ivy.

Always circumambulate thrice every dolmen you see.

Never enter the Sourlands without a damn good reason.