Muilend inna Maldacht

The Old-Irish Curse Engine

Directions: Select one item from each of the boxes below and click on the “Maldacht” button to generate your curse in Old-Irish. (Or else generate a random curse.)

May you meet

an infuriated man a sea monster a tricksy sprite a buffoon a Fomorian a peasant a goat-headed monster a Norseman a heavy drinker a woman with fetid breath an old woman an Ulsterman a pet crane a demented satirist a one-eyed raven a wizard an envious poet a phantom an ancient alien a defiant badger a stray dog a swarm of bees a scatter-brain

that will

eat break satirize sell whack mock gnaw away at defile shrivel insidiously attack revile drown find fault with harass swallow

your

heart cat head porridge manly part three-year-old dry heifer lump of soft cheese lapdog dessert hard cheese little nose pet fly tuberous root little book of poems woad garden your cabbage soup your cloak of lard

Comrac fort fri coin foíndil as·lenfa do bratt bloinci!

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