Benzedura

In country medicine
What medicine doesn't heal
Is healed with embers,
And prayer and scissors
From those who know the healing ritual

Doctor frog doesn't heal
It's best to have it blessed
In the pigsty
The healer asks
And sends the mother to answer

("What do I cut, angry frog?"
"I'll cut your head and I'll cut your tail!"
They blessed for three days
In the name of God and the Virgin Mary)

And if the little animal is angry
Doesn't want to disappear
Take it to two healers
Don't let one know about the other
One blesses at the gate
And the other at the trough in the backyard

("What do I cut, angry frog?"
"I'll cut your head and I'll cut your tail!"
They blessed for three days
In the name of God and the Virgin Mary)

Who will bless in the future
The children at birth?
The one who blessed is leaving
And the new one doesn't want to learn
Tradition and charity
That will disappear

Child when very young
Suffers a lot from evil eye
Cries a lot and sleeps little
Popular belief says
That by making a cross on the forehead, with the tongue
The mother can remove it:
"I bore you! I will raise you!
If you have the evil eye, I will remove it!"

("What do I cut, angry frog?"
"I'll cut your head and I'll cut your tail!"
They blessed for three days
In the name of God and the Virgin Mary)