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Medieval Irish Folklore (Live)
You're Dead to Me
How to Curse Someone
It's from a story at St. Patrick's Holds about suckling at the nipples of Irish kings. No one's nipples got sucked in public anyway, I'm just going to lay that marker down there. How do you curse someone? You can go to a blacksmith who will help you curse. There are actual places in the Irish landscape where they set up cursing altars and you could go and touch them in an anti-clockwise direction while uttering the curse. So it's a huge ritual. Gerard of Wales described Irish saints as having a particularly vindictive cast of mind. They used their bells, their hand bells, and what we call their buckles or cros
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