
Irish Folklore with Eddie Lenihan
The Blindboy Podcast
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Pishogs Are a Very Human Thing
Pishogs are a case in point. People try to wish other people evil, to take away their good luck for themselves. It's based on the notion that there's only a certain amount of good luck to go round. If you have more, i might have less. So i'll steal your good lock in order to have more from myself. Pish og is something you can cast upon someone like a spell. There was a great priest here in the franciscans one time, that people used to bring their stuff to when that happened,. and he'd handle it for you. When people was, when people wern't so got dan lazy that they used to set gardens
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