Fe fo fom!

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  • Fee! Fie! Foe! Fum! → from the English fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk:
Fee! Fie! Foe! Fum!
I smell the blood of an Englishman.
Be he 'live, or be he dead,
I'll grind his bones to make my bread.
  • Wikipedia
  • Fie, foh and fum: King Lear 3.4.186-187: "His word was still, ‘Fie, foh and fum, I smell the blood of a British man’."
  • Ulysses 045.01-02: "Feefawfum. I zmellz de bloodz odz an Iridzman."
  • fé: (Rhaeto-Romanic) faith
  • fö: (Rhaeto-Romanic) fire
  • fom: (Rhaeto-Romanic) hunger