The Celtic Holidays

Good Health And Bad:

  1. There are three things most precious to human kind:
    1. health
    2. liberty
    3. virtue.
  2. Three things which do not suffer trifling:
    1. health
    2. prosperity
    3. time.
  3. Three things which keep a person in good health:
    1. moderate food
    2. well-apportioned labor
    3. natural warmth.
  4. Three foods which bring health, long life, and clear understanding:
    1. corn food
    2. milk food
    3. garden food.
  5. Three foods which bring disease, short life, and dull understanding:
    1. flesh food
    2. sweetened food
    3. highly seasoned food.
  6. Three customary acts which make one healthy and long-lived:
    1. work, by tilling, in moderation
    2. rising early
    3. innocent mirth.
  7. Three customary acts which bring short life and disease:
    1. too much labor
    2. too much sleep in the morning
    3. peevishness.
  8. Three frequent changes which bring long life:
    1. change of food
    2. change of work
    3. change of amusement.
  9. Three good things in one who loves good health:
    1. enough sleep at Bealtinna (in Spring)
    2. enough food at Meansamhradh (at Mid-Summer)
    3. enough fire at Geamhradh (in the Winter).
  10. Three things which strengthen the body:
    1. lying on a hard bed
    2. cold air
    3. dry food.
  11. Three things whose excess shortens ones life:
    1. flesh food
    2. drunkenness
    3. too much dallying about with those of the opposite gender.
  12. Three unfailing remedies in every disease and sickness:
    1. nature
    2. time
    3. patience.
  13. Three things of which one does not see half enough:
    1. life
    2. health
    3. riches.

Contents
1. Preface 22. Respecting The Bad Home
2. An Omnium Gatherum 23. Pertaining To The Fili'
3. Respecting Excellence 24. Pertaining To Contracts And Agreements
4. Respecting The Conscientious Person 26. Good Health And Bad.
5. Respecting The Rewards Of Excellence 27. Advisements Of Prudence
6. Origins Of Wrong Doing 28. Respecting The Order Of Nature
7. Respecting Those Gone Amiss 29. Respecting The Nature Of Humankind
8. The Profits Of Those Who Have Gone Amiss 30. Respecting Action
9. Respecting Wealth And Poverty 31. Respecting Knowledge
10. Miscellaneous Wisdom 32. Respecting Wisdom
11. The Order Of Society 33. Respecting Those Who Are Wise
12. The Underpinnings Of Society 34. Respecting The Fool And Their Inanity
13. The Banes Of Society 35. Respecting Wisdom Applied
14. Respecting Land And Husbandry 36. Respecting Ambitions And The Roads To Success
15. The Respectable Citizen 37. Respecting Friendship
16. The Nocuous Citizen 38. Respecting Happiness
17. Respecting Legacies 39. Respecting Philosophy
18. Monitorial Advisements 40. Respecting Warriors
19. Manifold Blessings And Beneficence 41. Respecting The True Human
20. Respecting Etiquette 42. Respecting Spirituality
21. Respecting The Good Home  
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