
Irish Folklore with Eddie Lenihan
The Blindboy Podcast
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What Is the Evil Eye?
Certain families were supposed to have the evil eye. People usually had great faith in the franciscans. If a parson felt that a pishogue had been done against them, they would go to the priest. The old people knew that it was always three times worse if it went back against the person who was doing it. Now you can say that all that is nonsense, superstition. But so i've always said, and i'll still stand by it, the old people,. the old people were not stupid. They weren't stupid. It's the people behind those. We're still only people. We forget that. So we've become very complaisant because of all
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