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To the Fish Rose Podcast. Do you think that was a sleepy
hello? I think we're good.
We don't need them to be asleep at the start of the podcast.
Well, the podcast is on sleep. And are you feeling sleepy,
Aaron? I'm I'm.
I'm falling asleep just looking at you.
You're. Just a picture of comfort over
there. I'm feeling pretty cozy.
You remind me of that sleep paralysis demon that used to.
Car me hot do. You have a friend, but yeah, we
decided this is I think a little bit of a left of field, a broad
topic. But I we've been lucky enough,
as we're saying, to have a have a few people listening to the
podcast. Oh, some of you are listening.
Some people like, listen to this.
We didn't know that. We thought we were just throwing
them out to the void and we didn't want anyone to find this.
And no, someone said that they use it to relax and sleep, which
is like very because you know. We could take that as offending
because we're very boring. But I'll we could take it also
as very relaxing. I I'm kind of happy with that
because I often feared, you know, we have Gareth Quinn
Redmond to check him out on the spot.
Oh my God, I love his music man. He is such relaxing and
gorgeous. And sometimes, actually, it's
not always relaxing. Sometimes it can be as.
Hypes you up? Yeah, but I often worry that
when we get into get. It's the fiddles.
I don't know. It fits the giggles.
The fits, the giggles, gets the fiddles that it might be off
putting a Sonic experience, but luckily some people find wind
down with it. Come on, wind down with me and
Luke. I don't know if.
Yeah, I wonder if that's the first thing you'd say.
Oh yeah, It's a great podcast for, like, falling asleep.
Yeah, but look, yeah. When?
When dry line's not available, it's a great service Man dry.
Line I You know what, Luke? I wouldn't be the best of
sleepers myself now, yeah, and I've used dry line quite a bit,
and Seamus in particular. He's helped me.
He's really a lot man. Shame is my face sometimes.
I've called in looking for Shameless and this is Sorry
Luke. Someone else has him and I know
it's. You you know, I know it's you.
I'm sorry about that, but being Seamus, actually, no, I can't
talk about that actually. Sometimes, man, I can hear you
in the other room. I can hear you all the way from
court going and I actually, if you see I hop into the room and
I kind of slightly just take your phone and I I continue on.
I rack up the money, which is 1. Of my shames is charging me so
much. Yeah, yeah.
Because that was me, man. Okay, I'll I forgive Shamus,
because I actually had a flip out in the last day about how
much he was charging me. But, and that makes sense.
But The funny thing about those lads is it's very, very hard get
them angry. It is man.
Confused. Yes.
We need people like that, Luke. I've got sleepy tea here.
Do you sleepy Tea? I do.
How long? It's longer.
Previous episode Sleep Sleep ZZI inhaled.
Do you think ZZ Top? All right.
Every girl is crazy about a sleepy man.
That was the most attractive thing to a woman.
Jesus. He goes to bed.
Don't wake up when he hits the pillow.
He's out like a life. Look, I actually thought it was
a great idea to have a sleep episode because we all sleep.
It's a great one. As Aaron, a lot of these stories
on Duke has take place at night. So I was thinking that's, you
know, they do. Sometimes it's hard to tell if
someone was just having a wee scary dream or if someone was
actually haunting them. Or on top of that, I thought it
would be fun that surely there's like sleepy remedies.
I was hoping to be more there. Any remedies?
I was hoping to be some mad like ones I could apply.
To real life, yeah, ones that maybe aren't a bit mad.
But Aaron, I thought it was only right us to God fearing boys to
start off. Christ, Luke, I'm very God
fearing and sometimes it keeps me up at night.
But let's let's change the tune on that and maybe God can have
something to say. Fear is the.
Best done for away from this and.
But yeah, maybe God can change that.
And guys, maybe it'd be a good idea for this episode.
I don't know when you normally listen to it and maybe you could
listen to it before bed. Listen before bed or listen.
You just want to take a step out of your 24 hour life.
Maybe you're hurtling on the motorway at 100?
Kilometers now and you want to fall asleep.
Please don't do that. Luke, will I tell you a little
prayer to be said after lying down in bed?
I really like the title of that man because it's doesn't say
prayer before sleeping. Yeah, there's a prayer before
bed. Imagine Imagine you say that
prayer prayer and then you're like, now we're lying down.
Yes, prayer before closing eyes. Prayer to be said.
After lying down in bed, there are four corners in this bed
there are 4 angels lying spread Father Matthew, Luke.
And John, God bless this bed that I lie on when I sleep.
If I happen never to wake to God, I give my souls to Cape.
You will have a Saints curse if you put on one stocking and one
boot. You must put on both stockings
first. Then the boots.
And it's a good. Prayer until the last line it
was, I noticed because it was the first thing you have in the
document that you read and like. This is nice, but that last
line, you want the Saints curse? Yeah, but it's a bit funny.
A part of me wonders if that was meant to be at the end.
The mother was like, oh, or whoever asked.
Actually, Thomas Kelly, mommy, daddy might have just said Oh
yeah, and it's great if you what if have a Saints curse.
I don't know what that means. I don't know what a Saints curse
is. I don't know if I want it
because I don't think I associate the word curse with
anything good and that you're in on.
That's an unpopular opinion. I know I'm a bit out there now.
That was collected by Margaret Mary Gilligan, who was age 13.
She was in Fina County, Lithrum, and she connected it from.
Thomas Kelly. From Drum the lure.
I remember when I found that man, I like to think it was a
father going like, you know, when you're telling a baby's
bedtime story. And then, yeah, and Lord Luke
and John. And then, if you have a science
curse, you put one stock in one. Sleepy Place.
There was a little house at the back of the sleepy place.
It was built about 250 years ago.
There was a man living in the house and the fairies used to
haunt him and when he died he was buried out the back of the
little house. It was a very small little house
and it was built in the fairies way and that is why the fairies
used to haunt him. If one was coming home after
12:00 and going past the sleepy place as it was called, they
would catch them and put them astray.
No one knew the man's name unless some of the old
inhabitants who lived there long ago.
It is about 100 or 90 years ago since he died.
There. The man you sleep till one and
two in the day and that is why it's called the sleepy plays.
No one knew the man's name except the people who did,
though. Yeah, I was.
I slept for one today. Did.
You you're a sleepy by in the sleepy place.
I was out having a feast of pine.
Oh, and it's Sunday. The Lord's Day it's.
Lord's day and the Lord, said Luke.
Stay in bed until 12 or one. Waste the whole day that I have
given you. Get out of bed at one and regret
it. Imagine that a member of Saint
Lethargist was. Visited.
Was visited by God and he said. That there just the sun is
shining outside. Yes, that there just you missed
it all again. Good man yourself.
That sleepy play story, Sleepy Plays, was collected by Martin
Gildea and he was informed by John Hallam and they both lived
in Tour Leitra County Galloway. Those are mad names.
I'm sure they sound right, man, but they almost sound a little
bit Dutch. They don't sound like they're
local. But this I love A sleepy place.
I'd love to live in the sleep, the sleepy place.
Well, they was haunted by the fairies.
Now that's true. Why do you think the man they
bade until one or two every day? To think he was depressed, like
could be the fairies, could have been given him an awful, awful,
maybe pleasant dreams for all we know.
Imagine if he just got we was in hoping about the other world
and. He was loose dreaming, Ed.
You know, man, there's another one from around the sleepy place
that I could read to you there now.
Read to me there now put you into a pleasant dreams.
On by Dreams, you doing that could be a great town, and he
lives up in dreams. Situated in my own village,
about a half a mile from where I lived, there is a place called
the Sleeping Place. The sleeping place, there's a
bit of contention. He's, of course, another sleepy
place. There was only a few houses, one
about a mile at the crossroads. It was Christmas Eve and some
sort of an accident befell the fire in the house in the
village. No, it was.
An accident has befallen my fire.
Yeah, Dad, someone put out my big fire in my house in the
village. It's that's like a bit of a
Russian doll of a sentence there that there's a fire in the
house. In the village, I think were we
talking head? I think it was a pot of water
that overturned and quenched it. So the man of the house had to
start off at nightfall and a very dark night.
It was to get cold or rekindle his fire.
And the dark night it was this man for someone who sounds on
shore is actually knows a lot about.
This seems to the road was bad, and the poor man was not long
out. When he lost his way, he sat
down by the side of the road to consider where he was and as he
did, he heard wonderful music. I'm glad you went to that
because I was going to go nada, boys are crazy Boy aired Ice
Spice. After a start, a little man
approached and asked him. What's troubling?
Yeah, so he told him. The little man took up a stone
and hit a big rock, which opened up and the two of them entered
into a grand house where there was a lot of other little
fairies. Fairies boy.
It turns out this little man was a fairy the.
Little Man was a fairy. Because I'm actually not a
fairy, I'm just a little man. But we all get on first.
They gave the man a fork with a coal on top of it and sent him
home with it. The man arrived home, kindled
the fire, put down the supper and had a grand feast.
Man, I kind of forgot the first time and the next time.
This time I read the story. I thought the fire and the house
was a bad thing. No.
He's like, you know, back in the day, if the hearth went out,
he'd like Jay has some effort to get it going again.
You were all dead. It's always that you so in your
mind, the house was on fire and some of fire is like, fuck, I'm
gonna need to put the house back on fire.
This is. I nearly killed the wife.
Almost got it, that tone. Yeah, yeah, wouldn't it?
Maybe again, maybe next Christmas I'll get what I want.
It wasn't for you meddling pot of water.
When he received coal, he was a very happy man.
Every Christmas night since a light is supposed to be seen
leaving the place where the man got the coal and go wavering up
and down the road and around the mountainside.
There are people yet who are afraid to pass that way in the
night, and some even say they often hear the music in it.
Class So y'all, why did we call the
podcast a Pish Rogue's podcast? I can ask this recently, and I
think we have a few new listeners.
So piss oaks is the more common thing to say.
I would and that means. But there's very there's several
ways you can say it. My parents say pish rugs and my
mom does and and they just essentially mean like tall tales
are like superstitions, superstitions.
And like one of them we read in the last podcast, If you walk
under a ladder, you'll never grow.
Or if you're going to a house, you should always go out the
door you came in. That's a big way if there's a
baby or something happened. There's a baby happen she's by
goat. The same door, there's a baby.
Me and the wife are doing babies that sounds.
And I won't be coming back into that house.
Even his wife were doing babies on the table I.
Don't know why we're just doing babies, but no.
The reason I chose. We could have went for pitch
hogues. Maybe that would have been fun,
but I was feeling a bit crafty and I taught pitch rogues.
Was it? We're too.
We're rogueish and I think it suits us because we're by no
means. Which I think we have to remind
people every 3rd episode. Professional lads.
We're no experts. We're not educated.
Come on, I've never had an education.
I've never held a pen. I've seen you try man in the
office. Really like magnet?
I was going to help you, but I was like, no, he'll he'll learn.
He'll figure it out, yeah. It's the button thing that
confuses. This one comes from collector
Mary Kelly Aaron and informed Martin Kelly, who was 56 and
he's from Tyrone County Galway. Make your mind.
Make your mind up. Tyrone County Galway.
And they they say to be crying in your sleep is just a sign of
good luck. Interesting.
Now sometimes, man, I think people make good.
Like a lot of these, they're like trying to make the good of
a bad thing. I think as well, if you're
crying, you're processing to know it is good to cry.
If you're crying, you're not sleeping usually, in my opinion.
I've I've woken up fairly rattled, Not with tears in my
eyes, but I wonder if, even sad after what happened, it's
impossible to. You know, I've often heard of
people tell me their dream and every like, yeah, I woke up
crying like that's so it's possible and I also which.
Is good luck. I similar as birds pooping on
your shoulders. I think people like to tell you
it's good luck because they just want you to feel better about
the. Whole I and I I think you're
right, Johnny. Here another one man please set
me up. To sleep with your head to the
North. It is lucky I'm sleeping all
night to get lucky. My head's facing north.
I'm lucky. We sleep all night to get good
dreams, all night to get good dreams.
If one's right heel is itching, there is a stranger coming to
his house to sleep, which is kind of scary.
Oh, a stranger. Like, how often sleep?
Can I ask you a question now? How often has a stranger come to
your house and you let them sleep there then?
Well, no one's came. No strangers came to my house
with the express. Purpose of sleep in there, but I
can tell you. Oh, that's not what I asked.
And I know exactly. I've invited strangers to sleep
in my house. It's never happened where I've
went downstairs. You know, someone's, I've never
gotten buzzed burp. And they come down as well.
I'm a stranger. I'm here to sleep in your house.
Naturally, that's never happened.
Yeah, that goes what I've seen. Because the way it's read, if
one's right heel is itching, there is a stranger coming to
his house to sleep. Like I'm coming here with the
intent purpose of sleeping. What I imagine is, man, I'm
lying in bed, right? And I go, I itch my oh, you
don't have to be in bed. Let's say I'm sitting watching
TV and I itch my heel. Yeah, see me here.
Bum, bum, bum, bum. There's some stranger walking.
He's just like, I'm coming. Yeah, but no.
That's kind of scary. No people.
People. My couch is open for people to
sleep on. Nice man.
Give out trout to your dress there.
One thing I will say is I do, even though it's just something
that I have to work around, is that making breakfast in the
morning while someone's asleep on your couch is a bit annoying.
Otherwise I. But I think men, you were nice
enough to provide them with a space to sleep.
I'd be burping, farting, playing music, singing, whistling,
rattling the pots and pans. I've seen you do this, man.
It's quite impressive. You're like, eh, you're like the
Nash with the arms. Is that who it is you were?
Eh Vishnu, I think it's is a Shiva with the arms.
Or is it Vision Who? I don't know.
She was like Shiva with the arms last night.
That's another That's another cultural group insulted other
podcast. How did the date?
Go by Christ. She was like Shiva with the
arms, that was. Collected by Maureen Woods,
who's a female from Dawson's domain in County Louth.
Well, you know how he's like when he gets into drinking him
and he's and he's out, man. He's like, he was like Vishnu
with the arms we're home with. Throwing hands around the place
if we haven't insulted you. Yes, right in how?
Tell us what faith group you're from and we'll.
Figure out a way to make fun of it anyway.
If. Anyone of family was whoever
wrote this is good, you know? And I even.
Corrected it a little bit, but I sometimes I don't know If you
don't correct him on purpose to demonstrate the ill writing we'd
be reading. Sometimes this is a big thing.
Lads And I think even if your family want big superstitious
heads itching. Whenever anyone's itching, it's
either something to do with the lottery or someone coming to
sleep in your house. Yeah, it seems he's.
Itching his right. Nipple again.
That means Jerry's on the way. Depends where I'm itching on my
body. I just seem to sleepy.
She's coming to sleep. If anyone of a family was
rubbing right eyebrow, you. Rubbing right eyebrow, it
indicated some stranger. Would sleep in the house that
night. Oh, if left eyebrow itching,
Someone of household would be sleeping out that night.
Why? Where do you?
Think they're sleeping out. Boys So.
When you get piece of bride's cake to sleep on it that night.
Let me go back again. When you get a piece of bride's
cake To sleeping out that night to see whom you will dream of.
If it is a boy, you will get married to him.
If so, dreams. Let's talk about it for a quick
second here. You know, sometimes they're
wacko. It's like.
People who in your extended circle of life would, who would
never normally cross paths, are for some reason you're working
in an office and they all walk there with you.
You're like, how did this happen?
One of them jumping. One's.
He's like he used. Never jump but.
I would never think you did and. Dreams.
So like, would you have the cake with the intention of dreaming
about it and who you dream of? You want to.
You'll get married to them, of course.
On your mind, you're going to be thinking about someone you'd
like to marry. And that's going to come and
hope to God that they. Come into it and not someone
else. Yeah, what if you're thinking?
Too much about the other guy you'd really not like to go.
Henry. Henry so annoyed.
He's got like the he's like slicking his hair back.
It's just everyone. Just calls him Uncle Henry.
Or is it actually? It's a shit I tripped of Uncle
Henry. Yeah.
I also imagine man, when you get a piece of cake and.
I know they mean to sleep on us and you, then you're going to go
sleep. But imagine if it meant like you
had to go and put the cake under the pillow.
I kind of assumed. It was.
Oh really? I I thought it was in the bed of
you. Oh.
Makes it but man, that that's in that you wake up with like and
then you wake. Up like on the side, waking up
with hungy tummy, waking up. With Uncle Henry.
Sorry. That was collected.
By for the coming and we. Was also gender female.
From Aha Villa, County Mayo. I don't.
I want you to call me an ambulance.
Do you smell pour? All right.
Could you get? Me a pillow.
Could you get me a bit of cake and a pillow?
What if you put a biscuit under your pillow?
What do you think? You figure out the next person
that you're going to share a biscuit.
You come over the. Last sometime in the share of
this full on some music and we could share this.
So. Aaron, obviously the day is
episode if people don't remember, is about sleep.
It's about sleep. And we may have been getting a
little bit excited there, which may have aroused you a little
bit. You're a bit of more awake now,
so let's let's relax. You let the word.
Aroused doesn't have to come into sauciness it.
Doesn't have to. I'm sorry, dude, I'm.
Taking the biscuits away from you now.
You're taking the biscuit here. I'm the one, David.
Biscuit. Look at me.
I think in the biscuits, right.
Aaron, enough messing around. That.
Anyone messing? How do you know?
I swear. So Aaron, the reason we came
here today, it's very important. These young people sitting on
trying to sleep tonight, they are all over Ireland.
People are trying to sleep tonight.
Yeah and eh, happens every night.
It turns out. People, Aaron, have been
sleeping for a really long time. Longer than I thought.
Long way longer. Than I thought all the way.
Back to the mythological times, I need to tell you A.
Story after this story and after that, Aaron.
There's a story to tell you. Since.
Mythological times. They've been sleeping since Cook
Colin's been out throwing stones of birds.
And remember, they put him. To sleep for a year, they did.
There's several episodes and like to be honest.
Funnily, sleep is a device in so many old stories.
You know that they might sleep for thousands of years.
We know that in the Tombo Coon near the the Ulster men were
cursed. They were sleeping, sleeping.
Allegedly, some people said they were given the pain of of
childbirth and cook Colin woke. Up and he was like lads.
There's an army coming and you're all faking lazy.
And he's like well. Leave it up to me.
So yeah, And off he goes. There I am.
I'm. Insomniac, here I am.
I got me, I got me 9 hours. I'm good, eh?
But yes, we're going to read the story of Angus and Sayer, I'd
say is how you say their name. Do you want to say will?
You say or so. So yes, Angus in Irish.
Mythology. Angus is one of the two of the
Dana, which would be our pantheon of gods and probably a
God originally associated with youth, love, summer, summer and
poetic inspiration. I like those.
Things Angus sounds. Like he was a bit of a dandy, in
a good way. Like a bit of a Iron Man.
I'm imagining Jim Morrison running through.
For looking through. The field, Yeah, yeah.
And the son of the Dagda and Boan, eh Boan of the Boyne.
Valley of the Boyne. The river, the River Boing
Angus, is also known as, can I say the young boy?
Like or young. So I think young son.
You know the way because. God gods don't have to age.
It's so he is like the embodiment of youth and spring
and just always had the young. Son and really thinking of the.
70s here when I think of him. He's.
Got he would. He was kind of flower power.
Youth. He's the God of youth, love,
summer and poetic inspiration. And yeah, he has sort of, um,
you know, there might be in other cultures, there's God
similar than you can imagine we can imagine.
Them let's let's have an. But I do like that Apparently in
Proto Celtic the name might mean true vigor, and I think that
makes a lot of sense for a young man.
Full of beans. Full of beans.
And the medieval at the Ginsenkos, which is like a lower
place, it derives that Angus would mean 11 desire.
And the story we're about to tell that really sort of fit in.
He's overcome with desire. And a.
Bow and gave him this name because her union with the dag
that had been her own desire, and that lovely.
And I can really relate to Angus in this one even though.
Bow and and dag. They were obviously meant to be
together. Apparently.
Bow and. So she was chilling with her
original husband. Was in the hill attire like he
wasn't, or in the new range, was he?
And he. Owned that and he had made that.
They were chilling and the DAG did describe.
Saw Bowan. And when Jesus, I'm sometimes
when. You don't get it right in the
first goal, I know. Sometimes, unfortunately, that's
like, look, we're all on it, we're all out there looking and
essentially what I didn't like was at the building cocoline
scenario. Oh, Dag did told.
I forget the guy's name. New E new.
Ranger. Yeah, that.
Could you go over and do this task?
And he knew the task would take one day and one night exactly.
And in that time you know exactly came over with Love
Actually. And box of chocolates, sweeties
and why? And Bo and and him had a great
time in in new range and they had Angus.
And. For a while.
The lad and Die and Bowen were raising poor Angus.
Always like a cuckoo scenario, yeah?
And eventually the dag like finds Angus and tells him, Yo,
you that's my. Key I'm your dad, by the way,
and tells him you. Which makes sense.
As the young man you know, you should own New Grange.
So not only has he already gotten with your woman's what he
kind of suggests to Angus One I'm your dad.
I'm a bigger deal than your fake dad, and you should kick him out
and take over. Whoa, whatever.
And he does a new. Grange man, it's in like a big
you part of the Boyne Valleys. Like the Boyne wraps itself
around New Grange, which is beautiful as a bit of an image
there. But what's funny?
About that too, man is that he does some word trickery.
You know the way Irish is quite limber and how it's so I think.
Angus Axe is like here dad. And could I have New Grange for
like a day and the night and the last said Yeah, yeah.
But the way he said in Irish was can I have a day and night, day
and night and. Then he just kicked his.
It doesn't. Can't sleep, but people say that
that might. Be a metaphor for the The ladder
originally on New Grange is the old, the winter sun.
And that that which makes it nice.
Angus is the young you, the young summer.
I like that. So yeah, I just said I did.
And it's not to do with sleep, but I thought it was a helpful
preamble to have that we know. Angus was asleep.
One night when he saw something like a young girl coming up
towards the head of his bed and she was the most beautiful woman
in Eru, he made to take her hand and draw her to his bed.
But as he welcomed her, she vanished suddenly, and he did
not know. Who had taken her from him?
He remained in bed until the morning, but he was troubled in
his mind. The form he had seen but not
spoken to was making him ill. No food entered his mouth that
day. He waited until evening.
And then he saw a tin pon in her hand, the sweetest ever she
played for him until he fell asleep.
Thus he was all night, and the next morning he had nothing.
A full year passed. And the girl continued to visit
Angus so that he fell in love with her, but he told no one.
Then he fell sick, but no one knew what ailed him.
The physicians of Aru gathered, but could not discover what was
wrong. So they sent for Fergna Khan's
physician, and Fergna came. He could tell from a man's face
what the illness was. Ugliness, Sorry, he said.
He could tell it from a man's face what the illness was.
Just as you could tell from the smoke that came from a house,
how many were sick inside? Fergna took Angus aside and said
to him, no meeting this but love in absence.
You have divined my. Illness said.
Angus, you have grown sick at heart, said Fergna.
And you have not dared to tell anyone it is true.
A young girl came to me. Her form was the most beautiful
I had ever seen, and her appearance was excellent.
A Tim pawn was in her hand. And she played for me each
night. She sounds cool.
No matter, said Fergna. Love for her has seized you.
We will send you to bow and your mother, that she may come and
speak with you. They sent.
To bow. And then and she came.
I was called to see. This man, for a mysterious
illness, had overcome him, said Fergna.
And he told boy and what had happened, Let his mother.
Tend to him, said Fergna. And let her search through out.
Aeru until she finds the form that her son saw.
The search was carried on. For a year.
But the like of the girl was not found, so Fergno was summoned
again. No help has been found for him,
said Bow. And then send for the.
Dagda and let him come and speak with his son the Dag that was
sent for. And came asking why have I?
Been summoned to advise your. Son, said Bow.
And it is right that you help him for his death would be a
pity. Love and absence has overcome
him, and no help for it has been found.
Why? Tell me?
Asked the Dagda. My knowledge is.
No greater than yours. Indeed it is.
Said Fergnat. For you are a king.
Of the she of Aru send messengers to both, for he is
the king of the she of Mimo. I think that's monster.
And his knowledge spreads throughout Aeru, both said
Welcome people of the DAG. I like this guy.
It is that we have come for the Angus, son of the Dagda, has
been in love for two years, they replied.
Oh, is that? Bove.
He saw a young girl in sleep, they said, but we do not know
where an arrow she used to be found.
The Dagda asked that you searched all of Aeru for a girl
of her form and her appearance. That search.
Will be made. Said both and it could.
Be carried on. For a year so that I may be sure
of finding her at the end of. The year both people went to him
at his house and she aired for Moon and said we made a circuit
of Aeru and we found the girl at Locke Bailed Rakhon in Kuakliak.
Messengers were sent to the Dagda.
Then he welcomed them and said good news.
The. Girl of the form you described
has been found, they said. Both has asked that Angus return
with us to see if he recognizes her as the girl he saw Angus
was. Taken in a chariot to sheather
from moon then and he was welcomed there.
A great feast was prepared for him and it lasted 3 days and
three nights after that. Both said to Angus Jesus, you're
in, He is. An outie now.
Sorry, let us go now. To see if you recognize the
girl. You may see her, but it is not
in my power to give her to you. They went on until they reached
the lake. There they saw three 50s of
young girls. Young girl, three 50s of them,
Three 50s, that's. About 100 and 5000 and 50 girls,
you look like Mats. And Angus's girl was among them.
The other girls were no taller than her shoulder.
Each pair of them was linked by a silver chain, but Angus's girl
wore a silver necklace and her chain was of burnished gold.
Do you recognize that girl? Asked Beau.
Indeed. I do, Angus replied.
I can do no more for you then, said Beau.
No matter. For she is the girl I saw.
I cannot take her now. Who is she?
Angus said. I know her, of course.
Ser Eburme, daughter of El and Bull for she Uman in the
province of Kanata. After that.
Angus and his people returned to their own land and Bob.
Sorry, Bob, Bob, Bob. This is terrible.
What the fuck? DB makes a V.
All. And now I'm have her in there.
I got her right here. Going to swing her out and
you're going to hit her off the wall and she's going to scream
and after the. Angus and his people returned to
their own land and both went with them to visit the Dagda and
Bow. And at Bruges in Mac Oak they
told their news how the girls form and appearance were just as
Angus had seen, and they told her name and those of her father
and her grandfather. A pity.
That we cannot get her. What you should do is go to
allele and me, for the girl is in there.
Oh, this is both. It's tough.
That is so many voices what you should do.
IS go to allele and Maeve for the girls in their territory.
The Doctor went to Conak. To then and three score Chariots
with him. They were welcomed by the king
and queen there and spent a week feasting and drinking.
Why your journey? Asked the king.
There is a girl. In your territory.
But whom my son has fallen in love with, and now he has fallen
ill, I have come to see if you will give her to him.
Who is she? A little?
Asked the daughter of EH. Lambul why?
We do not have the power to give her to you.
Why? Breakdown.
Why, if I believed you, we do not.
Have the power to give her to you, said a Lil and Maeve.
Then the best. Thing would be to have the king
of the she called here, said the doctor.
A Lil steward went to Ethol and Boole and said a Lil and Maeve
require that you come and speak with him.
I will not come, Ethel said. And I will not give my daughter
to the son of the dagger. He owes me money.
You stole my. Cheese.
But I started that when I. Didn't know what I was going to
finish it when he stole I said cheese.
The steward repeated this to a little scene.
That's a lie. The.
Cheese was left after me. He offered me that cheese, and
the steward repeated. This to a little scene.
He knows why he has been summoned and he will not come no
matter, said Alil. For he will come on the heads of
his warriors with him after that.
Alil's household and the Dagda's people rose up against the she
and destroyed it. They brought out three score
heads and confined the king to Kruku, Alil said.
The Hell on Bull Give? Your daughter to the son of the
Dagda, I cannot, he said. For her power is greater than
mine. What great power does?
She have asked allele. Being in the.
Form of a bird each day of one year, and in a human form each
day the following year. Ethel.
Which year will she? Be in the shape of a bird?
Allele asked. It is not for me to reveal that,
Ethel replied. Your head.
Is off said allele. Unless you.
Tell us I will. Conceal it no longer then.
We give up quick, didn't he? But you will tell.
But we'll tell you since you are so abstinent, said Ethel.
When she will be in the. Form of a bird and she'll be at
Loch Bale. The Rahan and beautiful birds
will be seen with her three 50s of Swans about her and I will
make ready for them no matter. That said, the Dagda, since I
know the nature, you have brought upon her peace and.
Friendship were made among a Lil and Ethel and the Dagda then.
And the cheese was returned. The cheese was brought back.
Tasting better than ever 5 / 3 fifties of cheese, peace and.
Friendship were. Made among a little and Ethel
and the Dagda then. And the Dagda bade them for
well, and went to his house and told the news to his son.
Go next I. Went to lock bail that I call
and call her to you there. The Mac och.
Went to Lock Bell the Racon, and there he saw the three 50s of
white birds with silver chains and golden hair about their
heads. Funny Swans.
Yeah, we're looking at. Swans.
Yeah, Angus was in human form at the edge of the lake and he
called to the girl saying, Come and speak with me, Sir, who is
calling to? Asked Sir.
Angus is calling, he replied. I will come.
She said. If you promised.
Me, that I may return to the water.
I promised that. He said she went to him.
Then he put his arms around her, and they slept in the form of
Swans until they had circled the lake three times.
Thus he kept his promise. They left in the form of two
white birds and flew to Bruges in Mac Oich.
And there they sang, until the people inside fell asleep.
For three days. For three nights.
Tear is known. Now in Irish mythology as the
goddess of sleep and dreams. Like that story, man?
I really enjoyed that story. Two really good readers.
Lots of characters, Kind of tough, great readers.
Do you know what? Angus, he saw this woman and not
having her and not knowing who she was, destroyed him.
He was ill. I thought it was in there, man.
I thought it was quite cool. As a story man of like obviously
very old mythological story, the idea of, as we know, Angus is a
young fella and just what's head over heels, he said.
Over heels and Imagine. This sick with love.
Imagine this. Like if I told my dad that I
can't get out of bed or I'm feeling awful bad because I'm.
My. I've unrequited unfound love.
He'd be like, shut up. Yeah, come on.
Yeah. Yeah.
Kick up there, see for. Come on, Jesus.
So, like, it's interesting to finally see in the mythological
story where this great hero is lovesick.
Yeah. And they're not.
They're not. Like I would you?
Yeah. Yeah.
Come on. Like it's.
Honest. The parents.
Went to great lengths. It sounded like I suppose they
want to suit her, and only the best to do, but like the best
that she, the mother, had to run around.
But look, And then eventually she had no luck.
So your man both who seems, I imagine him as like, I don't
know what he seems like a man about town.
He knows. He knows people.
People. Say, man, that this as, among
other things, is a proto story before the more popular children
of Lear. Yeah, I saw.
That this one motif also the idea.
That you know, Obviously Swans are gorgeous to look at now, but
a few things to keep in mind. They're ugly when they're.
Kids, that's. Not they.
No, they. They made for life so they are
love. So Angus and Sayer for that
reason are are like that. Another thing apparently people
used to look at Swans back in the day and very mystical to
them because there's not many animals that existed in Ireland
that could exist in what they would call 3 states or realms.
Water, land and air sky it pretty.
Impressive if you think it is. I was at a.
Beautiful gig of a Piper. And in Piper in Cork there her
name is Marine. Hey.
Highly recommend listen to her music.
One of them was called the Swans song or something and she said
that Swans actually only sing as they're about to die.
And some of the audience said, yeah, like the phrase, you know,
like a your swan song. Yeah, man, is that true?
Yes. Why did they?
Do that, I don't know. Very magical.
They're. Very quiet animals.
They're strange animals. And I do find.
Isn't it funny? Only whatever anyone's bag is.
You know the people. There's a lot of questions about
romance and love and whatever. It's all love.
Baby, it's only thing I have to say is I've heard some people
saying, you know, oh, it's it's an old fashioned thing.
To think of love with a partner on marriage and that sort of
thing, and if that's not your thing, that's fine.
Yeah, but people say it's on that.
But there's examples in nature where people, people stay.
I mean, animals stay together. There are a lot of birds.
There are a lot of birds that. They partner for life and then
once they're broken, like if their partner dies, a lot of
them won't find another partner. Like that's it.
And a lot of them, they don't last as long.
So guys, they're. Hurting A bit of advice.
You know, you might you might have a bird in your soul, or you
might have a, who knows, a polyamorous lion.
Be you. Could be a sea horse.
Who can do both? Or a clown fish wicket, which if
there's not enough women, the lads can change into women and.
Then there's a perfect balance that's only have to look.
To nature. To figure out nature's nature.
Has answered it all. Yeah.
What do you want to be? Look in nature and find out by.
Well, now. I love that.
Story A bit of mythology, Aaron. Bit of mythology.
I I love it. Love it myself now.
So you're still awake? Okay, we'll keep going.
Let's keep going dry line. Funny thing if coffee machine
doesn't, it doesn't work. No, it does.
Doesn't seem to be working. Working today, we're the ones
working. Here, I suppose, oh, it's the
only thing working. Around here, I'd say you get up
too much. At the weekend that last this.
Weekend just gotten there. Yeah.
Nah, man. Not much know me so.
Yeah. Yeah, great.
Having two days not working though.
Dry line. Joe, actually I did get up to
something you did. Something this weekend I was
trying to get. I never smelled your nose, man.
I was trying to smell just some weekend maybe.
You don't drink. You don't have oh.
This weekend? No.
Next weekend, maybe. Oh, I might.
I I might. I might.
Yeah. If you're up to nothing, you
can. Come and we could try and smell
nose and well. I I sure I'll think about ask
you ask me on Friday, I'll ask you.
Yeah. What is that?
That's, that's in four days. That's for well.
I'll just say a reminder. On my phone, do, Yeah, do.
Do that, I actually They're kind of handy.
Fair handy, are they? You stick.
You stick today. What?
Day, Friday, Friday. Here's my pic.
Ask Aaron. Smelling nose.
Ask. Maybe put in your work, Aaron.
Actually, I don't know any other Aaron's.
It's fine. It's OK.
It's handy. That, isn't it, when you only
know the one person. I I know don't.
Many people, no. Yeah, they're scary, those.
People, I don't think this issue.
Is on No. Coffee working today, man.
I'd say we're the only ones working.
Listen, man, I'm going to go. DRY.
So look, I'm going to tell you. A story here about a man named
Tom I'd love to hear. From about the year of 18. 96
Tom he was a. Strong, Ugly man and his.
Wife and a baby lived with him. It is a bit a.
Little bit unclear. It was both of their babies.
It was when it was Tom his. Wife and the baby that was the
housemaid. One night A.
Witch came to take the baby. The man drove her away.
She came the second night, but the man stood up by the fire.
At 4:00 she came again, and the man fell asleep.
The witch let the baby. Fall on the floor and the man
awoke. I often followed when my baby.
Falls on the floor. Man, I have to make up.
I guess I'm starting to know that's how.
That's how you make sure that your baby never gets stolen by a
witch. You butter them up like then.
When they go to get them. Flipping around the witch let
the baby. Fall on the floor and the man
awoke and struck the witch with a kick.
She cracked him and bit him. This is a bit of a scene, man.
It's a bit of a scene versus it's a big chicken, they went
on. They went out on the street
Fighting St. I love my favorite.
Character St. Fighting tom-tom and the witch
and he better. With his shtick, but.
She went at last. And on her way up, she killed a
horse on him when he couldn't, when she could not get the baby.
I'm not seeing that little. Better Witch going?
Stabs a horse. Bit of a goddamn.
Nightmare of a story, if you ask me.
Yeah, I just isn't that. No.
They got away light, but it's still a bit annoying.
She's so spied onto the floor, she proceeded.
To murder one of these horses, and I came.
From Collector Michael Lacy Address Ballynakill Bad in the
Kill County. It was pretty fun.
And which story will I give you? A true story about a bad.
Place at night. I'd love to do this.
True story. About place at night there was a
man. Long ago, another man.
He was a small. Size man.
I'm a small. Size man, water cooler chat.
When he was I like. To I'm a small size man.
I like to smell my nose. When he was a young boy, there
were two fairy bushes outside his house.
He was a very small. Size boy as well, yeah, yeah,
when he was. Yeah, I was a big boy, but I'm a
small man, he cut. Buses and no.
He cut these buses and one night he was coming home from visiting
and he saw a red little woman running out about running.
Out around the place he saw a. Red Little woman.
Running out before him. That was all right.
That was all right.
After a while, he got married. This man did not go to mass.
This man was very fond of drink, and he spent every penny of his
money on drink. I'm a simple.
Man, I'm very small. I've got down to bushes.
One time a red woman run past me and a go mass and I spend.
All the money on drink? Isn't he a cat?
One day he went and an old woman on the road, and she told him
that he should see the devil someday.
We. And she meant she didn't say.
Yeah, sorry. You'll you'll see the.
Devil someday this week. This man, he didn't say that was
all right. This old man often was fighting
with his wife, Street Fighter. Man versus wife, yeah, when I
don't. Play in Thomas or which I'm
trying to main in wife wife. He went to the fair.
One morning and he went on the drink, so there was a very late
when he was coming home. When he was coming home, he was
in the ass cars. There was a flood.
There was a. On one part of the road he fell
out of the cart and into the floods.
Into the flood he went. He was very wet.
I'd say he. Tried to get up.
But in vain. He thought that someone put the
chain around his neck, and every time he tried to get up, the
chains were tightening around his neck.
He was a long time there. That's scary.
Not grow, you know. That would be terrible, crews.
Terrifying. Half half drowned.
And and changed on your neck, unfortunately.
Unfortunately, a man came and saw the man.
I suppose he is a bit of an annoying man.
He got ahold of the man's hand and the man commenced to shout.
He started to talk after a while.
The Devil. Tried to have me here tonight.
He's refused. This a few times the devil tried
to have. Me tonight.
This lad was Scooter. Drunk Devil tried to have me
tonight and he started to lose his temper.
He thought of God and he said a little prayer in his mind.
He did change, fell off him and he was let off.
It's about 1:00 in the night, and his poor wife was very much
upset and troubled about him. When he came home, she was in
bed and she got up. Why won't you fight me tonight?
She asked him what delayed him, and he told her the story.
He went to bed and he did not sleep.
He saw strange things on the walls.
I think there's something wrong going on this man.
He called his. Wife a few times, but she was
asleep. So in the morning.
He told his wife about it. She went for the priest and the
priest said Mass and the man went to confession and communion
and communion he. Was getting a.
Good go. And this was like a spa
treatment for for sinners. Yeah, treatment for sinners.
He was very good after that. And he got a good lesson from
the flood, eh? As often, Christians do this.
Christian Christianity solves all problems with floods, With
floods. Drown the living cheese out of
him. I chains around his neck, drag
him down. Forced.
Him in to say a prayer. And entry his grant he will be
not long seen. So that came from Le Caro,
County Mayo. And the collector was Teresa
Mann and the informant was Bridget Mann.
Bridget, do you? Want a bit of a creepy one now?
Man, I'd love a bit of a creeper.
So there was a woman. Eileen Sorry, Ellen O'Keefe of
Lyer Dowan, who died in 1935. She had an unnerving experience
in the House of Dennis, Duggan and Eagle and Colin when
sleeping in the same. Bed with a little girl named
Lahan. She felt some object she taught
to be a cat creeping over the bedclothes.
She called for a light, which. Was brought.
It revealed strange movements on the bedclothes, the marks of
human knuckles striking the girl who slept with her.
At each stroke, the girl cried out with pain or fear no human
being could. Be seen.
At the imprints of the strokes continued during a great part of
the night. Next night the same performance
was repeated. Eleanor Keefe did not wait for
the third night. She said that this visitation
followed the girl during the greater part of her life.
Now this is an old wives team. I heard the story told several
times from Ellen O'keefe's own lips, like this is not a word.
Of lie, because I heard. I heard it from her.
Mouth a few people have. Told me this.
It is funny. We will do that and I suppose it
makes sense. But another way like that means
nothing. Yeah, but.
People say that that's the thing you'd say a lot.
Exactly, yeah. And.
This is no word to lie. That mad woman actually told me
it happened. She's crazy but.
She says she saw a ghost baiting a girl up in the bed beside her.
I believe every word. Aaron, if we're going to keep
scaring the bejesus, go on, scare me.
Before then, we calm. Ourselves down.
Go on nights rest. Have you ever heard of Catherine
of the Dead Hand? I haven't heard of.
Catherine of the Dead Hand. This sounds rather charming.
I'm sure there's. Nothing I miss here.
This custom has died away. Last person who had charm of
working evil was Catherine Smith of Lavie.
She was known as Catherine of the Dead Hand, Catherine of the.
Dead hand used to fall asleep on it.
Man, And she'd get pins and needles, but it helped her out.
So much was she. Dreaded, and so many fears well
entertained, of her power to work evil that nothing was ever
refused of her. There was hardly any way out of
refusal. She was able to open doors.
We all know it. You can't refuse someone who can
open doors, man. It's just impossible.
He's opened a lot of doors for me.
To cry out was enough to make the young seek protection or to
hush a troublesome child to sleep.
That's the best score. Shut the fuck up and go to
sleep. Catherine's coming.
Shut up, I. Have read in there.
Are you sleeping? Yet because Catherine's cover is
near about if you. Don't fall asleep now,
Catherine's. Coming and I'm.
Not going to keep your door ajar because that won't make a bit
difference. Catherine gets in.
She don't get doors. She can fit.
Catherine can open doors. Eh, And that comes.
From Lara County Cavent Man, I find sorry that parents some
sour parents thought the best way to get their kids into bed
was sleeping was here's a really scary story.
So if you don't sleep. This is what's going to happen,
so the best way to do to. Get to sleep is to force it.
To force it, Yeah. So.
What's the origin of Catherine there man, it's not?
Well, it is said that if a person open a grave and takes a
handoff A corpse and keeps it, that he or she will have
supernatural power. Catherine the rock who lived in
a little house in the corner of the big field, which now belongs
to Tom Gaffney. Carrick Tobar, had such a hand,
and she could steal anything from any house.
She'd come quietly about a house at night and push in the dead
hand on a door or window Immediately when she did this,
everyone in the house fell asleep.
Then Catherine went in and took what she pleased.
A certain man challenged her that she'd steal nothing from
him. She took up the challenge and
she'd be at his house that night.
Terrifying. Fucking that was collected by
Tom. Gaffney of big field fame.
Oh, Cross Keys I. Know Cross Keys and Cross Keys
Come to Gavin. And.
I don't like the idea that someone has a power that would
spook me, man. That if someone enters one, she
can break into your house. She can get in.
Yeah, this is bogey, man. It's scary.
And then a minute, she's in your house, you're asleep.
It's kind of like a creepy Sandman.
It'd be really scary if. You could see her kind of
hanging on your window, and just as she opens it, you're out
cold. Oh, that would be.
Scary, man. Bad.
And in. Stealing your cheese.
I wanna be high all the time to keep you off my mind.
So that's. No way to keep someone off your
mind. Now, everyone that's bad if
you're having trouble falling asleep and there's someone on
your mind. Call Dryline.
So eh, the next thing we're going to talk about, go on by eh
in the concept of sleep. Obviously people have dreams
sometimes in mythology, there's a fine line between a dream and
a vision. Aaron, I've always said it.
Have you ever been inspired? By a dream and.
I have been rattled by a dream that's changed the way I can
look at someone for a while and have to remember that it was
just a dream, but you said inspired by a dream.
Not myself, no. So you've almost.
Certainly heard the name. It's a very popular name in
Ireland is Ashley. Lovely name and I'm wondering
iron if this concept mean so Ashley means dream or vision.
Nice, but I assume it was often used in this context of what is
a sort of form of poetry. It's called a mythopoic,
mythopoic, mythopoic. Mytho.
Poetic, Poe Poetic genre. It looks like it's.
Poetic spilled it at the team, but what they mean is.
The whole thing is a fictionalized mythology, but
created by a modern writer. And that doesn't have to be like
modern writer, like the guy you wrote Diary, the Wimpy kid.
That can be like a good example would be Mr. Tolkien.
Mr. Tolkien, so. He created a whole.
Mythology but like obviously if something we we don't you know
it's not the same as could color that stuff.
He's very willingly saying this, didn't actually I'm making this.
And in. That similar variety poets in
the 17th and 18th century had a form of poem.
They would do where it would. The whole premise would be that
the poem claimed to have fall. The poet would claim to have
fallen asleep, and in that sleep.
It wasn't a normal dream. It was like a really.
Sometimes, actually, they even wake up from a deep sleep and
they get visited by this vision, a vision of.
Ireland in the form. Of a woman.
And usually that woman would lament on something, either the
stage of the country, country or maybe if someone very important
that passed the form of woman. From the other world, sometimes
young and beautiful, other times old and haggard, hairy, hairy
women and. I was dreaming about.
Hairy women again. I'm plagued with dreams of hairy
women. I love them.
Eh, Betty? Astling poems are still used
today. I am not in the form that you
would think of their song as traditional.
Shan knows songs love it. That makes sense because you
know, lamenting something, you're so there's that Shan
knows has a beautiful sort of, you know what I was thinking
just there And oftentimes Shan knows.
I think some of the best Shan knows singers are female.
Oh yeah, almost majority. It's very interesting to me that
there's this sort of interplay where.
The poet who oftentimes I will say the Philly who would write
these Ashley poems would be a man and they would write about
this form of a woman. And I think it's cool that in
the 20s and 21st century, in the 19th century, these eh, shine.
Those singers, I think they kind of almost to me.
This is my even, like, embody, that female character.
That the lad was trying to write about probably better than than
a lad probably could. Um, but yes.
And the character, this female figure that would appear in the
Ashleen poem would be a referred to as the spare van, The spare
van, so that. That would be directly.
Translated as Sky Woman, but only Heavenly Woman, Heavenly
Woman. Coming from the other world.
And yes, she'd lament the current state of the Irish
people and predict an imminent revival of their fortunes.
Or say Jesus, the country's gone to, Brown country's gone to.
Brown and when she. Saying that the country had gone
to Brown, she appeared as the old haggard woman called the
Shannon van bucked. And I think I remember old.
Lady, do you remember? Doing something to do with her.
In secondary Or is that just me, the poor old lady Shannon?
Van bucked. Just sounds very familiar to me,
filming or to me. So apparently when it really
took off was related to the Jacobites and they were trying
to restore the Roman Catholic House of Stewart's Trone in
Great Britain and Ireland. That's very heavy, bit dry,
yeah. But that was when they really
tried to politicize, as you know, yeah.
And because it is a political vision of Ireland but at a
people who are oppressed and crushed and beaten down or we're
like no lads were on the open up now.
And so it probably even though it didn't get really hemmed down
as this is the Ashleen form and this is what we do.
There was definitely earlier versions of this.
Even might have heard it. Like, you can see the Nuggets of
this in some stories we've already told you about.
Like even Peck and Sayer appear in the dream Stang us now.
Exactly that, that was. Way before the Ashley and poem
and probably inspired the type of the idea exactly.
Similarly, eh, I think there's oftentimes that let's say a hero
of Irish EH mythology died, he dies, and people would have bad
dreams or two headed down. And would be seen weeping, one
of dreams. The earliest ones recorded them,
recorded for by priest, historian and poet Jeffrey
Keating. Well, I think I remember we've
quoted before for something, and let me see if I can pronounce
this Mavrone Machia Torsha Clave is Crea.
My sorrow, my gloom, weariness of breast and harsh is my
sorrow. My.
Gloomy weariness of breast and heart.
And that was an elegy to a dear friend of his, John Fitzgerald
in 1626 and a later poem, the Keating a Roach he described as
awakening from a deep and intense slumber along the banks
of the River Slaney and he's confronted by a vision of the
pre Christian Irish goddess cleaner we being for the death
of this John Fitzgerald lad. It's mad to me and I think the
priest said as limber like isn't a mad to be dreaming of pre
Christian goddesses as a well I. Watched a video recently about a
time where the Catholic Church looked at Ireland.
They were like those priests are.
Doing way too much outside of the Catholic Church, about
outside of our book here, because they're Joe.
They were writing on the stories of our ancient mythology and
like they were acting outside of just a book.
And I think we did some good things to these priests.
They were. I bet it was a bit more.
There's a bit more Paganism. For a little bit.
Look, we're all of faith of something.
Whereas probably the El Roman Catholic Church come in and
said, geez, you got to tighten in the script exactly.
Um in Corco Guina, Dingle Peninsula in 1653.
An anonymous barred composer, I meant over the recent death by
hanging when Irish clan chief poet and folk hero Pierros.
Ferriter, eh? It's here, eh?
At knocking the gaze as crook. On the way, rocks in Calare for
leading his clansmen in war against the Cromwell Cromwellian
conquest of Ireland. That's a noble feat, and the
lament, begins the hunnic. Ashley Air margin on Lark.
I saw a vision on the morning of the bright day.
The vision would have was of the goddess Erin bewailing the death
of a man who had overthrown hundreds.
Have you ever heard of him, man? I hadn't.
He could be in a he could be in a future app.
Pieris Ferretier. Never heard of that lad now.
So the reason iron these asking poems were so important, it's
like what we speak to. Like there's certain countries
where at the moment even where censorship is a huge thing and
some of the only ways people can get their points across to
earth. Yeah, and it's veiled.
And there's different, thank God, the freedom of artistic
expression which should never be robbed of no and country.
First sign of things, going back, it really is.
And so as a result, poets who originally had maybe, you know,
poets, had an oddly good position during the times of the
Bretton law system where they were catered for and given.
Yes, I understand that. No, these guys are important.
These these for the exact reason we just mentioned of of artistic
expression, speaking to the souls of people and and they
were at a loss. And you hear about these
wandering poets, kind of fallen from grace, that didn't have a
home in the castle anymore. So they started.
I suppose this form come out of this lack of purpose and
naturally these and poets would be lamenting Jesus, Ireland's
going to brown. I don't even have a house.
Queer brown. So.
The way they could get back at it without maybe getting their
head chopped off would be to write a poem or speak poems to I
would almost become like storyteller.
Oh look, those ashling poems. They could be kind of heavy, but
they're inspiring. I'm getting sleepy now, I think.
Well, I'll read you one more story, Will, and I'll tuck you
into bed. Would you mind?
I put a bit of cake under your pillow.
Maybe if you read. It nicely.
I won't need shamus tonight. Long ago there lived a rapper, a
young married couple, and they had a very handsome baby,
handsome. Baby have their brighty.
Everyone said you had the biggest, strongest chin and
chiseled cheekbones. The baby used to sleep with them
and one morning when the man awoke he looked to see how the
baby was and he could not find it.
So we awakened his wife and they both went searching for Mary.
Get up the. Baby's gone.
They had some baby. No, baby, I can't stand the side
of my wife. But my baby so handsome.
After a while they discovered a witch on the hob.
I've got witches on the hob. Come in, come in.
There's a witch on the hub. It smells like old people are
knocking on the door, Jays. John, I heard you got witch on
the hub. Every person in the village came
to see the witch. And the lady who had come from
London on holidays to Mrs. Ross Knox.
Ross Knox is some. Name Mrs. Ross Knox kind of hard
also came to see her. The lady passed some remark
about the witch, and the witch began to scream at her.
It's a bit weird, yeah. The witch was polite enough to
just sit and let everyone look at her, but weird of her to pass
her. Yeah.
And so the lady never left the bed for three weeks after.
So the scream and did something. Have you ever been?
Shouted at so bad that you didn't need to be at bed for
three weeks. And all my records too.
One day when the woman was watching, she heard a voice at
the door saying, Are they good to you?
Are they good to you? But the witch never answered.
She lived for over 7 years with the married couple and when she
died they had to bury her. So that came from informant Miss
Kate Flynn, age 40. And the address there was Drum,
Reva County Mayo, which on the hob.
Which on the hob? Which on the It's a great one,
man. And it's fun for all the family,
I hear. Aaron, you know, one day.
That's the thing about life. You know, one day it's handsome
baby in bed, the next day it's which on the hop.
That's the way my first marriage went.
Sometimes you don't get. It right the 1st.
Imagine that. One day we're we're making
handsome babies in the bed, the next day.
And shouting and screaming. Now guys, thank you so much for
listening that episode about sleep.
We hope you enjoyed it. If you're still not sleepy,
here's a bit of an advice to get a sound bit of sleep.
Onions eaten uncooked before going to bed ensure sound sleep.
That's from Tommy Darcy and balamoral litram.
And I think the reason for that is if you and the wife are in
bed and you're smelling onions, there's no sleeping nap.
Right. I don't know.
There's a horse somewhere and I think he's trying to mess with
me. That's.
That's really scary. That's really scary.
Man, I hope you get. To help, I hope you helped with
that problem. You know when you're born,
you're an assigned a horse at birth who thinks about you?