Pochin Makers - Irrational Response to Masses of Infant Mortality

Ireland had some of the worst infant mortality in western europe, because the place was so poor. So when a mother woke up in the morning and her child was dead, what the parents would say to themselves is that the fairies have come in the night and taken away that healthy child. The puchen makers were also denounced from the pulpit, because the priests believed that the pucen makers were folken with the spirit world.