#487 ferly

ferly- wonderful; strange; marvellous; fearful; terrible

Old English faerlic sudden

Fra 'witches and warlocks," I solemnly intoned, "fra 'wurricoos and evil speerits, and fra' a 'ferly things that wheep and gang bump in the nicht, Guid Lord deliver us!

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