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How dare you question me! As I am a merciful witch, I will not strike you down with boils upon your hinder parts, but will instead inflict the horrors of choice upon you and you alone. And the subsequent consequences .... all choices come with consequences. Or you could just count them out - yan, tan, tethera, pethera, pimp, sethera, lethera, hovera, covera, dik, yan-a-dik, tan-a dik, tethera-dik, pethera-dik, bumfit, yan-a-bumfit, tan-a-bumfit, tethera-bumfit, pethera-bumfit, jiggit. Depending of course on how many sheep you have.
Bumfit-dik?
I didn't make that up. And some of the regional variations are far worse to modern ears. It's the old celtic numerals - after a millennium or so of speaking english instead,, and a traditional counting out "rhyme". If you are counting real live sheep, you count each one and at the end of the series tie a knot in a piece of string. The number of knots at the end give you the number of sheep in multiples of 20. This is how you count sheep to fall asleep - recite the list in your head. Over and over.
Look up scots (NOT gaelic), lotta these words survive
I have zero sheep if that helps, but I do enjoy lamb on occasion