"The mind needs more, and it wanders, and when it wanders here, among farmers poor in the things of the world, they worry because, they say, if you think you will become sad, for life is short and death is long, and if sadness grips you it will drag you towards despair, a state in which you are of no use to your neighbor or yourself, in which you forget Gods special love for you."
(Irish Folktales, Henry Glassie)