Qui voit Ouessant voit son sang, qui voit Sein voit sa fin, qui voit Groix voit sa croix.
“He who sees Ouessant sees his own blood; he who sees Sein sees his end; he who sees Groix sees his cross.”
A sailors' warning that the waters around these Breton islands are so treacherous that merely sighting them foretells shipwreck and death.
— Traditional Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon Wisdom, Saint Pierre & Miquelon
Source: Traditional Breton sailors' proverb, ancestral maritime heritage of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon's Breton founding fishermen, public-domain oral tradition
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