Serbian Poetry from the Beginnings to the Present

17. Language and Power

“…Later, Nicholas returned to Stefan, explaining that Jesus was able to repeat the miracles performed in the gospels for Stefan: "Jesus Christ, Our Lord / who gave sight to men born blind / gives now your eyes their primal ray of light." 84 Giolla Críost Táilliúr wrote a verse wishing rabies and cancer on wolves before praying, "Every wolf […] who hunt by waiting on their haunches, / may Christ send destruction on you all […] may God's Son with new purpose / lop away that misshapen brood." 85 Here the poet-supplicant may have intended consonance between wolves and thieves, as a way to achieve protection from robbery by humans.…”