Hi, Luke. Hello, we do the big hello
together since it's been a long time.
Hello and welcome back. To the Pitch Rogues podcast
Peddlers, The Old Irish Myth, Folklore and superstitions.
Oh boy. And we're back.
We're back in the same room, talking, talking Brown.
Talking brown. Back in Brown Town, this big
dirty city. Back in brown?
What was that? Are we drinking tea?
No biscuits. We asked you all for words and
you kindly delivered many words. Me and Aaron don't know.
We know about 10 words between Between US, and you'll hear them
a lot in this one. Yeah.
And look, what do we do with the words?
We throw them into dukas archive, dukas that's that's a
resource that's been made for. You can go away and if you you
can go away now, you can go away now.
Stop listening to listen to which is out the National
Folklore Collection kindly. Put up all of this archival and
it's very nice online on dukas for you to peruse.
Peruse. It's a lot of you can type in
your town, land and you'll find so many stories.
You could just type in as you can have done the word I don't
know giblet and see if there's any stories of a giblet.
I don't know Giblet. I wouldn't know a giblet from
the. Let's see Luke.
We got submitted loads of words by users and users.
I always call them users. Users of podcast?
Yeah, they're using podcast. They're podcast abusers, don't
abusers. And I picked the first one was a
word. And Jesus Christ Irish folk from
back in the day had an awful lot of stories about words.
I can't remember the name of everyone that submitted things,
but this was submitted by the lovely Mr. Nevin.
Do you have any rat stories before we begin?
Like a personal rat story. I have go on.
I remember clearing out a turf shed, God da da and we're
stacking it somewhere else. And I remember finding a bit of
a bit of newspaper that was a shredded up and Dad was wise
enough and saying, oh, I think I think rats might have made nests
in this. Turf.
And I said, Oh no, maybe just throwing in the turf, like tore
up the paper, obviously didn't. And the next thing I lifted up.
Luckily, it wasn't it. I lifted up a piece of turf and
directly under where that turf was, the was the biggest rat
I've ever seen like it was. It made me reconsider how big
rats can get. Yeah, and it made me like he's a
country rat, he. Was country rat this big leg?
Yeah, he was well fed. And it's like Dragons.
It's like Dragons, man. The more room they have, the
bigger the bigger they get. Like goldfish?
Or is it koi fish? I think koi fish do get really
big, big buys. I met a koi fish in a pub once,
and he was the biggest ladder ever met.
Yeah, you're a koi either. Sorry.
Yeah, he jumped at you jumped. But it jumped way higher than
ever to use. Yeah.
Oh well, really. Distance, right?
Height and he had the diagonal go wow, connect four.
And he jumped into, he jumped into a pile of pallets, and me
and Dad were like, I only just that Grimacy, you win threshing.
Yeah, to be heebie jeebies, I. Remember he brought up, He was
like, I had a piece of turf in my hand.
Why didn't I just get at him? And I was like, well, it was a
bit shocking to see and what was more shocking was out cheeky it
was. I suppose it couldn't have went
anywhere within, like while we were talking over that 10
seconds, it changed its mind, jumped back out to where it was,
and like, what was? Weird to me was the way it was.
It's lithered. It's lithered into the turf.
You could see his body like kind of hinge, if you get me that.
It was going like like a fish. Kind of like it reminded me of
those things and even look, old stink.
Remember the things full of water?
Oh, squeegee, squeegee, squeegee.
Yeah, I don't know why it reminded me of that, but it was
just real flopping around and I don't know, it really made me.
I don't mind seeing mice, no, mice are cute like.
I don't want to discriminate. But rats?
No. They're big men and they can
make a ruckus. You have any rat stories in your
life? Rat stories like I've crossed
paths with rats. Are you cycling along the canals
here in Dublin? At one point when I was living
somewhere along to get home or to work and aft a rat would
cross my path. I almost killed a few, like they
were getting close now. Oh.
Mike, that would send you off, surely?
That would send me boy. And I have a mouse story though.
Oh. Please.
It's quite funny. So we we had a bit of a mouse,
mouse issue there a few weeks ago in my abode in a different
part of the country and I we were we're all quite pacifists
in our house like so. We love the earth, we love
people, planet critters. So we decided to buy humane
traps and by golly, it felt like Pokémon Man.
The next morning I woke up there he was inside this.
I can hear him scurrying about. Went out and battled by myself.
Wait, so I I wanted to keep him for a little bit.
So like, I got a lunch box, put holes in it, put a little dish
of water and a little dish of peanut butter.
This boy was going to have a good life only for a sharp bit,
like and then I was going to let him go.
It's like a little hotel where he didn't have to worry about
predators. But of course he was in this
dark box all night and then all of a sudden the box had been
moved around. He thought the predators were
out there, so I asked my housemate.
I asked him. I asked him to help, to help me.
Do you know, like hold the like when I open the box and shake
him out? You put the lid down really
quick to keep him inside. By Christ he was ready man.
I opened it. Shock him he was he wasn't
out-of-the-box 2 seconds when he thought I had selected attack on
my hopemate housemate, he jumped out-of-the-box, jumped onto her
sleeve and then he left meters down the backyard.
He was a jumping by. The business and plenty inside
the thing. Taxes.
He left rent. Fair play at him one night.
He was awful cute, man. But unfortunately we did have to
start laying down other things to kind of get rid of them.
They got wise on the humane traps.
They're. Not as good and sure.
Look, look, it happened. Also just before.
What's the name of that disease? You can get a Wheels disease.
That's another thing that terrifies me.
Rat from rat pee and poo. Yeah, yeah.
I had a neighbor who got it and he was like laid in bed.
You can go blind from wheels disease.
Yeah, and isn't the same with cats pee, man.
I remember around our playground at school they'd be like, don't
go up and throw his hedges because the cats are peeing up
there and if you scratch your eye you'll be blind by.
Kids love cat pee. When I was a big fan of a child
stinks. Man, did you ever get sprayed by
a cat? Oh, I see this like done in
cartoon so much, but I don't know if I've seen much spraying.
I have been around cats spray and it's a different scent
altogether. It's muskie.
I'd imagine it is muskie. Yeah, because.
It's kind of more let's it's kind of territory are also like
I'm here. Look it's funny that you
mentioned papers and rats there in your story because we've read
this before in a story actually. Oh yeah, and it used to be
called rat beeling. We read the story before, but
I'll bring it back. Rats are very dangerous pest.
When one or two are noticed in a place, there is always a swarm
of them. Rats live in bands like bees and
we all we all say it. Who's the band of bees over?
The bees over there long ago. It is said that rats would leave
a place if a paper with the words.
Here is the delay written on it was left for them.
Fleming's Mill in Chandra was swarmed with them and somebody
told the owner about this plan and he did it.
And James Dennigan of Konopog was coming home to Chondra from
tarmin and he met all the rats coming down the road and one
large rat in front with the piece of paper in his mouth.
This has been done in several places by golly.
Big rat, I imagine has a big quiff or something.
Or he's you could tell he's the head honcho like.
Boom down rats. He's running the joint.
I really like that story, man. A bit peculiar.
Why Banda Bees? Yeah yeah, Banda bees.
And also we did the paper leaving a note for the rat
saying here is the belay and the rat's like got to get out of
here unless it acts as like a ticket for them to go elsewhere.
You're allowed to get it. You're allowed somewhere else
down. Oh boys, he gave us the ticket.
Yeah, it's like a car, like a parking guy.
I don't want it. Or maybe it's that?
The rat. The rat is Gray in colour.
He does great destruction to stacks oats and chickens.
Sometimes he goes into the house and he eats the food that is
left around. There are two kinds of rats, a
water rat and a common rat. The water rat is not very
numerous in this district, Luke, after thralling through dukas
for all these rat stories. You know what?
Dirty. What's the boy?
First, there's one thing I will say is the rat is never good.
Never. They never have a story where a
rat, is it a man? No.
In fact, it's funny that you mention that.
Listen to this like a rat about this rat.
A story about a rat and a weasel.
Long ago an old old men used to wear low shoes and long
stockings and sharp pants. Oh bit a leg and one day an old
man was plowing in a field and a rat and a weasel had a great
fight and he was a long time looking at them.
At last the rat was getting the better hand of the weasel and he
went to save the weasel. And when he went to save them,
the rat bit him in the leg. That's what he gets now for
wearing the shorts. Next day his foot was swelled up
and he was not able to do anything.
That morning the weasel came to the door with a leaf in his
mouth. The people of the house
undertook that. It must be for to put on his
foot because he saved him. So he put it with the foot and
the next morning it was better. The old people say that it is
not right to do anything on a weasel and if you do anything on
him, he will do something on you a short time afterwards.
That's very they they often conflate the weasel stories with
the LM, the fairies. And the door?
Cool. And whatever they were.
Oh yeah, I do the same time. Or they're mustilids, aren't
they? Yeah, that If you hurt them,
then another one will come for you.
Kind of. Isn't that interesting?
There's a cat in our neighborhood and as I was
saying, we were having a bit of a mouse problem.
Cats. Beautiful now.
Black Ravens, her name. Green eyes.
Lovely cat comes in the window to me, which I don't like
actually, because I think I might be allergic now that she's
on my pillow. Besides the .1 time I was
coming. On my pillow, I was going.
I don't know where I was going, but I came out and she was
walking across the road with a mouse in her mouth, and I was
like, raving. And she dropped the mouse.
I don't know what she didn't. She lay down, all nonchalant, as
if I'm not doing anything would let the mouse kind of boogie
around and just as a mouse was about to get away, run over and
grab it and F it up again. And then just lie down and I'll
launch it on Pee again. Just playing with it.
I'm playing with it and also showing off to me being like
watch this. I often wonder with cats and
such, since they're getting fed regularly, so they're getting
fed regularly so their food needs are met, but that.
Killer Instinct isn't met, so I'd say the the Looking for my
ISIS for just. It's like it's just trying to
get your bit of play. I think it is the play man, a
primal bit of play. Primal bit of play and how do
you get your primal bit of play in yourself?
What do I do? I think we all need a primal bit
of play in our lives. Not at the harm of anybody else,
though. You.
See it at the festivals you do right?
People running around, people running.
I'm. Trying to think what my primal
bit of play is. Dancing.
That's primal play because you know for a fact your ancestors
are dancing. You know for a fact they weren't
sitting on their fucking phone looking at Instagram.
No. They were looking at a rat on
their phone, scrolling their rat in Hoth.
There was a castle. Hoth Castle.
I hope there. They lived in as a landlord and
some others slaves. It was near the sea and they
used to go out to see if there were any ships.
One night there was a storm and the next morning they discovered
an old woman in a raft. They brought her and her
luggage. She had luggage.
She was just to get on the rafter page.
You know what they see on the plane, man?
They say if it's going down, don't grab your luggage.
She ignored that she had her headphones in when she was born.
Make sure to use the bathroom before it sinks.
It's going to be tough. It's the castle and made herself
or made her comfortable. It'd be funny.
She just made herself comfortable immediately.
Now this landlord had a servant man who was haunted by a rat.
Of course I love her. Nonchalant, that is, of course
he's haunted by a rat. Everywhere he went that rent,
that rent, so everywhere he went, the rat was sure to go, he
told the old woman. Whom he sheltered, and she gave
him a strap to tie around his wrist.
She told him never to. She told him never to take.
That's the rat outside. Excuse me, There's someone at
the door. She told him to never take it
off, and as long as he wore it, it kept the rat away.
But one day his wife saw the strap on his hand and she was
jealous because she thought it was a token from another.
I'm not here. He never told his wife like.
She not noticed This rat wasn't pestering them.
Well, he maybe he did. Yeah.
I don't know. It's interesting.
One day. So one night when he was asleep,
she cut the strap. Immediately he was haunted by
the rat. Haunted by the rat?
I often find it funny in those cheesy situations where it's
like, it's funny that you wouldn't just like not leave
him, but like, I don't know that there was an address.
She's like, she was happy enough to quietly remove this love
token and that was this. That's Yeah, while he was
sleeping. Awful strange relationship
that's like. The most important, yeah, I
think communication is key there, yeah.
Imagine this is what we're now We're like, we're like one of
those agony ants you're right into.
They cross to Belgium, but to no avail.
The rat was always before him, better, better.
He knew it was hotel and he opened the door of the rat.
He then went to Spain. A lovely He's not madman.
He he was so pestered by this rat that he moved country twice
like. And he's only a servant guy, so
he must. You know he didn't have the
beans to run around, eh? But it was one.
It was of no use. Wherever he went, the rat never
failed to annoy him trying to kill him.
He's that fucking. Rat.
Just be waking up. Sorry.
I know this rash. He's always at me.
Don't worry about this. It's actually very common in my
life. Yeah, that's bringing it up on a
date. And he said the red flags.
Ah, there's this rash. You'll meet him later.
He's always on the table. I'm struggling with him right
now. I've actually played.
I'm keeping him busy outside. Anyway, the last time he
arrived, he intended to shoot the pest.
When he had shot the pest, it wasn't a rat at all.
For he stretched out his hands and cried that it was the man's
brother who was always with him, and that the old woman was a
witch who had transformed him. So the old woman was bad, bad
man, But oh, it's not funny that you gave him the strap.
She probably knew well that it was such a lovely strap that she
was like, this is the type of strap that your wife will cut
off here. There is a life still to be seen
going through this house, OK? That's just they'll always add
that told folks yeah I don't know what that's what they.
All the lights still on in the house, you know, freaking
electricity bills mad over there.
There was it. The sort of candles for days.
X-Files teams are super, do do, do, do.
That was collected by Portugal O'Brien from Baltimore Bridge,
County Galway. And he collected that from
Podrick 4 from Charlestown. Man, yeah, it was a witch.
That's a sad and scary one. Now imagine you think you're
doing well for lady off a shipwreck and she turned your
own brother into a rat. That's a lot like, a lot of the
sort of creepy 824 movies that at the start, record this old
woman. They're saving her.
As it turns out, she's just discouraged.
She's discouraged in their lives.
And why? She's the lesson of this.
She probably, Yeah. So what's the lesson?
Don't look after old ladies, Yeah.
I often think maybe that's why they make so many stories with
creepy old people, because they're like, can't be keeping
this one. The Burning of Eska College.
Am I going to commit to this voice?
Are you? Let's find that.
Once I was the Friars guest in my uncle's habitation.
One night, as I laid down to rest, I saw a conflagration
configuration. I saw a conflagration
conflagration configuration. Jesus.
My uncle had a conical on forgation in the latter years of
his life. I don't know what that is.
A conflagration is an extensive fire which destroys a great deal
of land or property. Did you know that?
No, that's really good conflagration.
Of that word of the day. The window frames were all in
flames. I thought my brain was turning.
I saw a rat running around the floor carrying a candle,
burning. I like to think it's always the
same rat. It is lame.
He has a quick it's the rest, The rest.
Had IA weapon in my hand, that vermin I would slaughter, but I
was locked in with our firemen. No engine hose or water.
I like how they spelled hose. Yeah, they spelled.
It oh, yes, In comes the Friar. He cries out fire.
The same Piercy. Now you see your transgression.
No, look, nor Grace could be in this place with a man of your
profession. Damn, what was his profession?
He didn't say. Making Clown for We'll actually
find out and after. You know you were admitted here
without the provincials knowledge, but now you are here
in your wild career to burn down our college.
Oh, Father Blake, don't you suspect or do not desperate me?
OK, I'm going to guess that. What do you think?
Oh. Father break, don't you suspect?
Suspect is what I would think, yeah, I would have put.
This or do not disop disobeyed maybe.
This, yeah, for the Friar sees you kept my fees and a penny.
You never paid me. This is like a battle rap.
It is a battle. With an angry feeling in my
breast. I've got an angry, angry
feeling. Where do you feel your anger?
Ah. It's more in your head.
I get it in my chest and my jaw. My jaw?
Definitely, yeah. I will carry on my journey for
no look or peace you did afford to the poor attorney.
He was an attorney. Ah.
Since your friendship I have lost it may be for the better.
I will have you served with a bill of cost 6 and 8 pence for
each letter. Oh Jesus, for each letter of
like writing stuff. Since you accuse me in the wrong
and set my brain a crazy that there's another raft before it's
long may set this old concern blazing.
Good one, man, isn't it? So you can get hot rats hired to
burn to burn places. This is a different time.
You just give them that little piece of paper, that's it.
And he's like challenge. I kind.
Of found that fairs a while back.
Huge. That gives a little bit of leaf,
too. It's very cute, the idea that he
was like you were, you saved me in that fight that the rat was
going to. I don't know if you Remember Me.
I'm the ferret from before. Here's the leaves will be on.
Do you want to hear the back story?
That poem, man. Piercy Dolphin, who was supposed
to have written the poem, was a native of Thoreau House.
He was well educated and became an attorney.
He was very fond of the drink and he almost became insane from
it. His uncle, Father Blake, was in
Escrow College, which was at that time only a small building.
Piercy was allowed to live in the college.
One night Piercy's room went on fire and the Friars turned him
out. Shortly after, Piercy composed
this poem. It's interesting, isn't it?
Surely it was an accident that he's he's he probably knocked
over his little light while he was signing his documents, but
to blame it on a rat? I'd like to think he was smoking
a heap of fag. Something, man.
It was the rat with the candle. I told you, I'm telling you,
it's the rat. That's why he's the paper in his
hand. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
John's Another poem here. Why is there so many papers in
this? Yeah, in this room, but he's an
attorney. At Law, I'd love a poem.
This one was called on my dog. I have a dog and his color is
red and I always fed him with milk and bread.
One night when he was asleep in bed, a rat came and he sat in
his head and then the dog said he would kill the rat dead.
So he jumped and he bit the rat's head.
Jesus that was collected by Vincent Doyle from Ballyglass, E
County Galway. Long ago, when there was a big
house in Hampstead, there lived a man and his wife in the house.
One day a rat came in and sat beside the fire and they were
afraid to put him out. Just seemed a bit miserable to
put him out, so rats around. Yeah, I'd like to think this one
was polite. We'll see.
Just see how it kind of in my mind it's cute that he's sitting
beside the fire. I think I'd find it very hard to
tell a rat to leave after. If he crossed his legs, he's
there forever. You're on a date.
You're on a date, man. You're like red flags.
Jeez, I find it awful hard to ask to correct.
Leave. Yeah, I find it very hard.
He come back to the house after some time He opened the door and
went out. Another night there was a dance.
Imagine if the rat and the wife had an affair.
Another night there was a dance in the same house and a motor
car came in one door. And like the Monopoly man or
someone in the car, there was a man who owned the house one time
and he was dead. Now you know you understand why
I titled that wacko story. I was hoping the rat would be in
the car with there was no. The rat only happened once.
Yeah. Who?
Why? Who wrote that down?
We'll, we were given another word.
Man. Banana.
No, as you can imagine. When do you think Irish people
went to the Americas? First time I had a banana man
was in college. Was it?
No. I Once I started, I was when I
started enjoying bananas. You and your brother had just
didn't really like bananas. No or beans.
Don't. I still don't like beans.
I love beans, but I like bananas and bananas are the best fruit,
I would say. They're very handy fruits.
They're probably like they're they're my life utilitarian
fruit, I would say. Definitely.
Do you know, like the people's fruit?
They're versatile. Yeah.
I saw you drop half your banana. Yeah, me and Aaron were walking
around the city streets, the grimy city streets.
There was saxophone actually walked a saxophone, lonely
saxophone. And yeah, I was holding the
banana in whatever way, just it was a bit comic and I was
holding it by the short end of that.
You eat. You eat the banana in a strange
way though, don't you? Well, you eat it though.
You take all the skin off. I don't always do that, OK.
I do that in. I actually kept it in.
You did. If this time, if I had a firm, I
tried to run away. Imagine I I was squeezing it
like no. For some reason I feel the whole
banana sometimes. I think this podcast is just be
over sharing the points with my evening habits.
Yeah, I did roast you once about your biscuit.
It was a fun time. That's a problem.
You need to and, but please tell me a banana tail.
Well, I'll give you a Riddle, dude.
And I knew one better. They could look.
Pretend I didn't tell you that we were talking about bananas,
OK, a white. Man and buried in a yellow
coffin. Wow.
Will we? Oh, that's a shame.
Yes. It's a shame I can't go back in
time now we can't. It would be bad to fake.
Us going, oh wow. Yeah, we can, Luke.
I think we need another bit of a break from the other rats.
That's perfect. I have no Riddle for you.
A white man died and buried in a yellow coffin.
Is that someone who is jaundice maybe or something?
What a dead man, Yellow. And it's failing health.
It's banana A. Banana.
It's a banana. I didn't think there'd be many
banana words on. Is that going to change the way
you think of a banana now when you're eating this?
White man died in here. I don't know how.
Who thought that? Some freak thought that up.
I don't like thinking about bananas that way.
As you can imagine, there aren't a lot of banana stories on
dukas. Yeah, I wonder when the banana
came to Ireland. I'd love to know, man, because
it's so yellow, isn't it? It would scare us.
I'm not quite sure about this. A man answered the door once and
there was a banana. Do you want to know?
So I. Watched Bananas in Pajamas for
the first time 2 nights ago. It's kind of scary, isn't it?
It's a little bit creepy. The bananas are creepier than I
pitched in pajamas. Yeah, I was always frightened by
the intro bananas and pajamas. I like the intro.
It's cartoon. When they're coming down the
stairs, they're coming down the when I was younger, men and I
used to go down the stairs at night.
I'd always run fast because I always thought there was
something right. Oh yeah, that's.
That's true though, man, that's scientifically proven.
I feel the same whenever I turn the light.
When you know the last minute you have to turn on.
Yeah, you run somewhere. Do you know what I do now?
Even still, when I'm at home, when I come out of the bathroom,
I turn off the bathroom light and I back into my room so I
don't turn my back on the hallway.
Isn't that crazy? This is why Americans have guns,
man. I'm glad they don't give it to
us. You're right, dude.
I'd have picked it out for random reasons.
We need to, we need to get guns in this.
Country so that I can walk Cassidy from the back into my
room with my dude. So I read through there was
about there was 59 stories with the word banana in it on dukas
and I read every single one of them and they were commonly the
word banana was in list of riddles.
There was 4 riddles that I came across over and over and over
and over again about bananas. You heard the first one there
about the coffin. Here's the second one, which I
saw 30 times. It came from.
All over the country is always bananas.
No, dude. All right, why is the letter F
like a banana skin? Please, pray tell, because they
both make all fall well. My banana fell.
So they're not make all four. Yeah, it's clever, isn't it?
Ah, sorry I didn't. Really fully gasp if you put F
with the all at fall. I just had it replayed in my
mind, man, like a gift. My banana, It was quite sad,
man. And your banana was called
Chiquita Jackie. It was a Chiquita.
I think those are from where they from.
The chiquitas. Tis one of the one of those
brothers out east. Bananas we used to be.
We used to be. We aged them.
Here, we get them from green to yellow.
We get them on. It's nitrogen that does that,
isn't it? Isn't it a thing that bananas
leave off their own little gas there that ripens everything
around them? So you shouldn't keep bananas at
any other of your fruit and veg. But there's if you, if you want
to, if you're a young man and you want to own a job, a few
bananas in the bed. You wake up with beard.
And I'll try that out. I look for tomorrow.
I'll sleep with a load of bananas, green bananas tonight
and we'll see now. But I finally have that beard
I've always wanted. This is another one man, very
common all around the country. Why is a lady's jumper compared
with a banana skin? Was you just tear it off?
I don't know. Like what?
No, the answer is because they are both easy to slip on.
You kept going? Yeah.
Wow. Don't want to slip on, I know
it's quite. Interesting.
It's quite hard to get a banana skin back on a banana.
That's what I know. You slip on my.
Answer for why? Are you know very hard to take
something back? No, you very hard to put the
banana skin back on. You slip on the banana skin.
No, you don't. Oh, slip on.
Yeah, no you don't. I slipped on a banana skin once.
I went to lend to the room of my own, of my real lunch room in
school and. Because there was no clatter.
Nobody saw me, so I slipped like I was skiing.
I bet there was no sound. Man, I looked.
Yeah, and wood floors and I looked around like, did anyone
you know, like most impressive thing.
I was very awkward, you know, as you can imagine, by knowing the
met a lot of mistakes in school that were funny mistakes I'd
imagine laugh at. But that one was.
It was still a mistake, but it was like a proud mistake.
And did anybody witnesses like? Me as a child?
No. I even notice it.
No, I came over and it's lame, I said.
I just slipped on a banana peel, like it's not that impressive.
I'm so sad. Kids are ruthless, aren't they?
I wish I could have tried it again.
I'd love to set it up, I'm sure. Mythbusters.
This one is the same version of that last one.
Please why is a banana skin like a loose coat?
It's the same. They're both easy to slip on.
There you go, Here we go. Dude.
Question what kind of leather makes the best boots?
Answer I don't know, but banana skins make the best slippers.
That's that's that's bad. When we go back to rats, I like
rats, men, I like rats. Do you want to hear how they cut
the rats back in the day? This one's a mad story.
Now there was a man called a prayer rack and sometimes the
cup tosser. He was a renowned rat catcher in
the townlands around ballied off.
When a farmer was very troubled with rats he would send for on
prayer rack. He would come to the farmer and
would be well fed by him. After a few days of examining
the farm, he would make a sugon of straw about 20 feet in
length. He used to make a kind of
ointment called honesty. This stuff had a powerful smell.
He would smear the sugan with honesty, and when the sugan
would be well quoted he would catch one in the bit in his hand
and the rest would be left trail along the ground.
He would then whistle three times and begin moving from
farmer to farm yard, walk the fields, and walk a long
distance, then from the farmer's land by whom he had been
employed, sometimes 6 to 10 miles.
Then he would make a shortcut to the nearest river, trailing his
sugan behind him and followed by hundreds of rats.
On reaching the river he would either throw the sugan into the
river or buried near the river. He would then slip away himself,
the rats remaining around the place where the smell of the
sugan would be. In a few days hundreds of rats
would be drowned or perished with hunger.
I'd. Love to see that.
Well, I don't know. Mad, isn't it?
And if the farmer who employed the prayer had any spite of a
neighboring farmer, the prayer would lead the rats to this
farmer and would bury the sou gone on his land.
It's very like the the old flutist or whatever.
It's funny that you mention that because we have a rat charmer
story as well. But don't get too ahead of your
horses here. The rats would gather there in
their hundreds and would do great destruction on potatoes,
man goals and corn and would undermine wolves.
Don't ask too many questions left.
What are man goals? Those are my man goals next.
Next year I want to be a better man.
Are we really silly man goals? They sound like a flower.
Man goals. Whoa, mangle, Vertal or man Gold
is a root. It's like a beat.
A root crop thing. Yeah, there you are.
Can I read Mickey Do Man Mickey free?
A man who lived near Scrying, namely Mickey Free, was a
drunkard. Sometimes they really gossip,
don't they? Imagine it was only five years
ago or something. He's an awful lot of gossip on
dukas, man. Some people are getting roasted
like. Yeah, he drank all his money and
he would not go to Mass or the sacraments.
It was the month of October. I just can't imagine drinking
Penny. Sorry.
It was the month of October, and he's drinking flavors.
He just cut the drink out altogether.
But then it was the month of October and he would not speak.
Yeah, yeah, love, he's drinking on.
When they brought the punt and he was, yeah, yeah, it was the
month of October. And he would not say the rosary
with his wife. And she complained about him to
the priest. The priest said to her that he
would come some night and say the rosary.
When the priest arrived, Mickey was at home.
They started the rosary. When they were nearly finished,
Mickey saw a rat coming down a rope from the loft and he
laughed to drinking quarters. When they were finished, the
priest asked Mickey why. He laughed and he said a pious
rat for want of stairs came down this rope to say his prayers
went on the ground. He bent his knee, he made poor
Mickey say, and that is really fun.
That was collected by Isa Ida Harlan Ida Harlan and Where's
She From? She's from Assy County Meath.
Go on either man. That's a great story.
And also Mickey Free. It's like Ireland's version of
Free Willy. We read our story about rats.
I know we don't have another one about rats.
Oh, I love rats. Oh, we're big fans of rats in
this house. Sure, they're everywhere.
Look at them. Anyway, the rats are.
Twas a moonlight nice, and this man was going home from a gamble
at the hill. Twas late enough and the moon
was high, and the gambler could see a good ways along the road
in front of him. Well, if he could, there was a
man coming against him, and something like as if it was a
flock of sheep a little behind him.
Twas that white and fleecy. Well, begor I'm not the only man
on the road. Anyway, says the gambler to
himself, and he and he coming on to the other man.
As soon as they came up to one another, the gambler spoke to
the man and said goodnight. Honest man, for he took him to
be a poor man that missed of his lodging.
The strange man spoke back and then says he honest man.
Whatever you see on the road, pass on and take no notice.
Just keep out of the way and say nothing.
And then he said goodnight and went on.
Well, the gambler was thinking. What could he mean as he was
going his Rd. chase? I'm just calling me Rd. by.
It's my Rd. here, and only mine, eh, when all of a sudden he saw
you could go your roadway either, when all of a sudden he
saw the fog coming up the road against him.
There was a lot of noise, like the soft trotting of a pack of
hands and the grunting and squeaking of a whole door drove
of ships slips. It says Bamba in brackets, but I
presume he meant ban of like. Pigs, Bambas like is one of the
gods. One of the gods, yeah.
And the thick white fog of steam rising up from the noise and it
all coming towards scary. And the cold sweat of death came
out of his forehead. Class man.
The coolest weight of death? But for all the fright that was
on him, keep it taught himself what the stranger said to keep
out of the way. And if he did, he stepped into
the grass on the side of the road just at the beginning of
the fog who reached him. The sight nearly left his eyes
when he saw what was in it. A flock of rats and they're
going like they used to drive pigs from early for long ago.
In a tired drove where they were pantied and grumbling and
screaling, but they were going ahead all the time.
He's rats. Imagine when the middle of the
flock was going up past him. He heard a whistle back the road
where he met the man and the minute heard it the whole drove,
began to squeal louder and to trot until after a couple of
minutes they were gone back the road and a fog.
The gambler was hardly able to stir.
But as soon as he sorry, there was as much of stirring.
But as soon as he came to himself a bit, he started to
run. And I'm telling you, there did
not much grass grow under his feet until he bursted in the
door in his own house and fell on a dead faint on the middle of
the floor. They threw a basin of water over
him and shook the holy water on him, And when he came to
himself, he could hardly tell what he saw.
And from that day they used to say that he'd go into a mouse
hole from the sight of a rat. I'll sooner pick a mouse tour at
that's a great story, The Rat Charmer.
So he probably came across one of those men you know, who had
the shoe gone, dragging it behind him.
He was busy working. He was taking the rats away from
one farmer and gave taking them elsewhere that.
It's a great phrase. Phrase, man.
There did not much grass grow under his feet until he burst in
the door of his own home. That's a great one.
That's really good, very well written.
I really liked it. It was.
It was very, it was tough to, it was tough to read, but in the
style it was good. It was good.
It was well written. It was really good version of
how one would speak. Yes down on Do you know what
man, I actually saw as well when I so that was collected by
teacher Dahi or counter wall in Coombe, County Limerick.
The school's collection was in 1936.
That was the year that they they gathered all that document.
So these stories are, I would live great.
Story Very good story this one man, another rat charmer Story
One time a rat charmer came from Skahim Ranky and he moved the
rats from place to place. He put them from crottys to
condoms and from curtains to make carols.
A blind rat came out from under a wall near curtains.
The charmer put a stick in its mouth, and two other rats, one
at each side, took hold of the stick in their mouths and LED
the rat along. And that awful kind of.
That's very nice. No rat left behind.
Yeah, they're like military man like.
Yeah, Nurse Rats. That was collected by Bridget
Fitzgerald from skiing Naranke, County Tipperary.
Jeez, man, I won't. That place still exist.
The Jumping Skull, Aaron. That sounds a great name for,
like, a Pirates of the Caribbean.
Isn't a man something Pirates of the Caribbean and the Jumping
Skull one? That's.
Funny, that's like straight to DVD, isn't it?
ATV movie only. One night a man was passing a
graveyard. He heard a noise behind him.
He looked around and saw his skull rolling around to cry on
the road. He began to kick it.
OK. I imagine.
That's well, you see, if I saw a skull rolling around the 1st,
the first thing six is to kick it.
No, no, that's not mine anyway. That was fight or flight.
Must be that was someone's head, no?
But when it says like, he began to kick it, I imagine it's like
Joe, you're walking down the road and there's a can and
actually that's a little bit. That seems how he's doing it.
And every time he kicked it, he heard the squeal.
Yeah, he got a stick and he started to beat the skull.
OK, he heard the squeals all the time.
He gave it an I hear the squeals all the time.
He gave it another kick and he saw something run out of it.
He did a dash and it was this guy has not a bit of, like,
safety. No.
Let me go over and see what that is.
Yeah, I think he's also a psychopath.
Yeah, he made it that all right. He made a dash out of with his
stick and hit it a mighty blow, and stopped it.
He then saw there was only a rat that was inside.
Ah, it's only a rat inside the human skull.
Like a hamster, man. It needs a little more, yeah.
Jesus, these grave diggers are getting worse rolling around
these sports, man. No, they're not even burying
them. The the man took the skull and
threw it in over the wall of the graveyard.
It was no sooner in that it was out again.
Oh, then the man saw a white object jump over the wall, sees
the skull and disappear. Yeah, it's great.
The man saw a white object jump over the wall.
The rest of the Skellington where's before control my stop
kicking. I'm in a rat.
Wait, he can't see it because it would be the skull talking.
Yeah, I like that, though. That was collected by a woman
that's called Cat. Kathleen.
The poor, I said. The pair.
The pair tower. And informant beyond.
I think it's an eye, Bani, our fella.
Bani our fella, How about that? 80 years old.
Thank you man. I might just throw cost into the
wind to just stop. Just any MSD and able to say
what I be. Be being at the owl fella is a
cure for ignorance. Yeah, that's wisdom.
Did he read all about Clifton men?
Oh, this one's a spooky one. Are you ready for this now?
But. There's a bit of Clifton in this
at the moment. Do you ever notice that the same
sort of townlands pop up with the rats?
Galway is big. Very big, yeah.
Calvin lead from can be big and only swear.
This isn't bias. This isn't whenever I'm not
looking for Calvin, so I'm actually trying to actively
avoid I know what I find Calvin stories more than anyone else.
I'd say. Not more.
No more than any other place. Sorry.
I don't know what that would be. A great Prag, so that I find
stories more than anybody else. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's Luke. There's no, no.
I don't know what happened or who was.
Maybe they got stuck there. No.
You good storytelling men for pretty.
Anyway, this one is called a drowning in a place called Kyle
Moore, about 21 miles from Clifton.
Have you ever been to Kyle Moore?
Abbey, man, gorgeous. I think it's UNESCO Heritage
site. Anyway, there once lived a rich
man. He had a large house and many
acres of land. In the center of his grounds
there was a large lake which is teeming with fish.
The man was very generous with his money, but he allowed no
person to fish in his lake. One day, 2 poor men were caught
fishing in the lake and were summoned for poaching.
The local priest tried to induce the man to let the two men go,
but he remained firm. They will catch better fish than
you ever will, said the priest. If they will let them, replied
the man. A few weeks later, the father of
the rich man came to pay him a visit.
One day, the father and the son went fishing on the lake, while
the wife went out horse riding. Yeah, Jesus Kyle Moore Abbey.
Beautiful though, as the wife. I'm up over here to scratch me
all the hanging gardens. Now we it's about to get there.
As the wife was returning by the lake, she met the priests and
began talking to him. At the same time a rabbit ran
across and under the horse, who bolted and threw his rider into
the lake. The current bore her away before
the priest could act. A little while later the sun
felt a tug on his line, but he could not lift it out of the
water and the sun found himself face to face with his dead wife.
He was so surprised that he fell into the lake and was drowned.
Here, why is he called the Sun? Because the father came along
there and they went on a fishing trip.
Yeah, interesting choice there. I always find that when you go
in religious. When they go son and then they
say the wife, sometimes I wonder, I've always think what
this would be more appropriate to the mother.
You know what I mean of the son doesn't make no, but it wasn't.
It was his. It was the son's wife.
All right. Yeah.
I'm my son's wife and he's me Dad.
It's. Complicated.
Do you want to have a more spooky ones?
Did you watch? Did you watch Spooky Ones?
The waiter comes out to your table.
So I have two menu. I have spooky ones.
No kids meal ears. You want to cure for The Dirty
mouse by because you have some dirty mouse.
Yeah. OK then.
Sorry, sorry, I don't need to say that over the podcast.
Right, So the cure for The Dirty mouse.
To cure The Dirty mouse, go to a man who never saw his father and
get that man to breathe into The Dirty mouse.
So when you hear the cure for The Dirty mouse, are you
thinking it's filthy like? Or he's talking ramish like he's
using bad words? Oh, it's so tough, man.
Isn't this part of me thinks that it might be like like the
man in England that told us to always scrape our tongue?
Oh, Alex. That's lads.
We don't even thought that's. We were in the McDonald's very
late one night. It was probably two or three.
In the morning, tea and biscuits, 20 tea biscuits and by
Christ we were feeling it. So we got a hankering for some
McDonald's in big city London. And big city Donald.
We met this man of Indian descent.
He was dressed so sharply, wasn't he?
He was and a great home. We were like, we couldn't, but
he was old enough to be, said Alex.
Why are you out tonight? Yeah.
What? Why have you been?
And he was very chill. He looked like he was in
McDonald's at three in the day, but everyone else, McDonald's at
3:00 in the morning, which it was if at best, I think.
Yeah. And he was at karaoke, no?
And, oh, he likes all that sort of keeper.
I think he did. And we talked.
We got much to him. He started.
He sang like a Frank Sinatra number of what was it?
It wasn't like why. It was like fly me, fly me to
the moon. It was.
That's funny about it, God loving.
But he did kind of. He kind of like hyped up his
singing. That wasn't bad.
No, man. I don't know what I was
expecting. Yeah, but yeah, he you asked
because we figured out what age he was.
He was in his 80s and he looked fantastic.
And if he had a wrinkle, it was on his back.
He had a wrinkle. It was on his sack.
Very good. Not a real thing anyway, because
he was. He was out on the tone and he
was so entertaining as to talk to.
He said some racy things now, but all 80 year old men do
unfortunately, and so I asked him, as I am, to do when I meet
older people who are looking well in their.
Hand Am I allowed to say those things?
No. I ask permission to be racy.
No, I asked him like, what's the secret you have?
And man, what did he say? You got to scrape your tongue.
He's like all the filthy. Do me a favor and scrape your
tongue. Joe and I still haven't gotten a
tongue scraper. Can I tell you much?
So the way he said was like, get a tongue scraper because you're
breathing in and you're swallowing on that shite on your
tongue, and then you're and then you're talking it, and then
you're just talking shite. And I don't.
He's right though, because he's talking about your soul as well.
It's just, you know, he's talking in a figurative and a
metaphysical level. He told our a good friend of
ours that the way that they could get around London rent was
just to help pay the landlord. And then when the landlord
called and said you haven't paid, so yeah, I did, he really
brought it up as if it was like life hack food.
A fool. So keep.
That in mind, but I think the scaping the tongue is great.
And so you know what? I since then I have brushed my
tongue. And you know what, man?
It does get an awful lot of schlock.
I find I have a bad gag reflex. Man, that's fair cure for a
bleeding nose. This is a cure for a bleeding
nose. Put some cold thing on the back
of your neck, such as a key or something dipped in cold water.
You must hold back your head. After a while it will stop
bleeding. I will believe that.
Well, it's just a whole thing of tilting your head back.
Do you think the cold might help?
I wonder. Now I get AI.
I'm getting you. I get a bit noisy.
I think my I've noticed I get a bit of neck pain on my nose.
I could get yeah, your lymphs could be gone the back of your
neck. Well, interesting dudes.
Maybe they're on to something. What was it?
Those were collected by Florence Cavanagh from Walterstown
County, Me. That's a.
Lovely name, Florence. Florence Cavan is a beautiful
Florence is a lovely name. The mistake.
Once Upon a time there was a gentleman, and he he kept very
fond of peeping into rooms. That's a problem.
But one morning the gentleman was shaving in his stocking feet
with a knife shaped razor. I don't know what other shapes
there, but Mary went and peeped into the room.
He got such a fright that the razor cut the top of his nose
and then the razor fell and cut the top off one of his toes.
He said to himself, if he would put it back, the base that was
cut off and his and the bit that was cut off on his toe back
again, it wouldn't it. I presume that they left out the
word nose. He made a mistake.
He just put the bit of his nose of his toe on his nose and the
bit of his nose on his toe. Afterwards he used to have to
take off his boots to blow his nose.
That's. How it works.
Oh my God, that's how it works, man.
Jesus. And that's some sort of divine
punishment for people in Windows I He's a peeper.
He deserved nothing less. I find it is just.
I surprised I didn't happen to his eyes.
I've came from Nora Harton. Yeah, the collector.
She's from a port in your county cavern and here we go, Murray.
And where's a Murray from then? Scrappy Joe.
What's madman? We were talking to a friend of
ours of it's. He literally pulled up the map
of Calvin. He's having stuff, he said.
Lad. Have you ever, have you ever
seen Scrappy like you heard of Scrappy?
Yeah, I think it might be a mythical place to Calvin that
can't be accessed all the time. Scrappy.
I haven't been. I haven't been in Scrabby.
Only on a certain night can you go to Scrabby.
Very much, very much, Will I. This one's called the Stalker
Rat. Will you read it?
Oh, let me look him up. Stalker.
Rat stalker. You can read it, man.
So there was once a man out after rabbits.
From your heart he saw a rat trying to catch the rabbit.
He shot the rat and let the rabbit go.
The man came home and the rat after him.
The man had to go to England or the rat would kill him.
He went to England and when he was going on the ship he saw the
rat jumping off the shore onto the ship.
So scary. I jump off the ship there.
When he landed in England, he met a man and the man asked him
was there anything troubling him And he told him that a rat
followed him from Ireland. Yes.
Actually a rat. The man told him to go under a
big load of tin. Of course he went under it.
Then the rat came and tried to knock the tin.
The man tried to shoot him and he could not.
Then the man let out a dog and the dog was not able to kill the
rat. Then the man came out from under
the tin. He went on to meet a blacksmith.
He asked him if he would shoot him and he said he would.
He got his gun and tried to hit the rat, but he could not.
He asked the man, had he A2 shilling piece with the sign of
a cross on it. The man gave it to the
blacksmith and he made four halves of it.
He put them into the gun, then he shot the rat and before he
killed the rat, he would kill the man.
He said rat really nicely there at the end.
Rat the rat, the rat, eh man, Jonah was thinking when your man
he met the the kindly English gentleman who asked him.
Why are you here? What's wrong with you?
Imagine you'd bring it up as a surprise.
You're not going to believe me, but there's a rat following me.
And he said, yeah, you and every other Irishman that left Ireland
in the rat. That's the It's the third story.
I know another man that my wife was a rat follower.
It's the third story of a man being based intercontinentally
by a rat. Yeah, it's like a
internationally, only it's Leon should do that.
Look, we've had a little tea break and I'd like to read you a
scary story. I need that.
It's under the subject. Of it too calm.
It's under the subject of a rat. But there's no rats in the
story. The story is called Ratat.
Rat Oh, like a ratat. Let me find rat tat.
Well, I do. You know what?
I'd like you to read this one. It's called rat tat, Rat tat,
Rat tat or rat tat. There was once a man and his
wife who were very poor. One day the man went into the
town and he saw a big house for sale.
It was very cheap. Lad, he bought big house very
cheap. It sets on the outside very
cheap, that's all. He bought it and they all
settled down, all two of them. He got everyone from the town in
this house was said to be haunted and that is why it was
very cheap. The first night the man went to
bed at midnight, he heard a sound like a rat tat, a rat tat
coming down the corridor and when it came near his door, it
opened on a figure of a man dressed all in black came in and
it swept over his face. Just a little sweet scary.
And the figure then went over to the bookcase and pointed to a
book. And then it went away.
This one. This one.
Very good. You like this?
One wow 1984. It's so relevant to say people
will ever stop saying that, man. It's it's man, I'm not going to
read it. I hear it's really good, but
it's all right. Even all annoyed the whole, and
I tell you it's all right, it's it's about twice as long as it
should be. In the morning, the man did not
tell his wife because if he did, she would go.
Oh, you don't have to harbor that guilt.
Or just to hide the fact that the has he swanned?
And he's quiet. You're looking off about it.
No, no, fine. Don't touch that box.
It's scary. The next night at midnight the
same, Your face is looking awful clean, like someone swept it
speaking out. The next night, at midnight, the
same thing happened. In the morning, he went to a
priest and told him all about it.
The priest said that if he would come again to say in the name of
God, what do you want? In the name of God, what do you
want? That's a good prayer, most
powerful prayer. And if he comes after that, I
will go myself, is what the priest says.
He's like technical difficulties.
Turn out, you know, say that, and if that doesn't work out,
I'll come out danger. The man went home on the third
night it came and the man said in the name of God, what do you
want? The wife's supposed to say, and
the figure did not answer. He said it again and it did not
answer. He said it again and the figure
said one day when I was hearing confessions and I came in who
was a famed and he wrote it down on a bit of paper and I said I
would look at it then at all when I was at home should I
forgot and now I'm something. Oh, will you please give it to
me? No.
The man in the bed said I will give it to you in the morning
and but the priest said give it now.
The man gave it to him. And he was never seen again.
Kind of funny that, he said. I'll give it to you.
It's sleepy. He's so haunted he went to the
police. Ah, sure to wait.
Well, it's also, I suppose, this whole story man is about
Funnily, Isn't it funny? Has a few messages in it.
One He didn't tell his wife. Didn't tell his wife.
But then, weirdly, I found it interesting that the the Sinner
didn't tell the priest his thing.
He put it on a bit of paper and the priest told the man he would
readers and didn't. It's a bit much.
I'll listen, I go home. But a priest?
I don't know. That's all right with a voice
note or something, but like if you're given a priest to
confess, you will not ask. It might be dark in the box.
Yeah, you're right, man. So what about?
What are you taking from us? And I think FOB and stuff off is
what I was trying to like. Maybe pushing things like even
it's a bit funny the in bed go sitting in front of them.
I'll give you the good for it tomorrow.
It's like you seize the moment. Do it now like.
And beautiful name incoming Nora Shoga.
And she's from outer art and got to go away.
Yeah, we always see that and I always confused by that one.
And I've been to yes, yes, yes. The pledge.
You're saying the pledge I was made take the pledge.
So was I. And.
I was brought into, they didn't tell us.
They brought us for a school mass and then they brought us
into the hall and there's a go in, my mom's a go in Luke into
this room and we went in and then the next thing we were
taking the pledge. No way you were tricked into it.
I wasn't told about it. We were told about it and we all
talk it and I say every single one of us broke it to be honest.
And we only, we only. I took it in when I was maybe
11. I'm sure I hadn't broke by 16
by. I was already breaking it.
No, I'm joking. I wasn't, No.
Yeah. A lot of people I remember find
it. Yeah, a lot of people.
I couldn't have put 16 down, but a lot of a few heads put 16
down. It's funny because you can put
the. Age, Yeah.
And I always thought it was 20. One, why wouldn't you put it
down, 18 and you're like, you're dead Rice.
That. Let me put that down now.
Right. That way you're dead right.
Yeah, I don't want to anyway. The pledge, the pledge.
There was a man once, and he could not keep the pledge.
His wife went to the parish priest and she said, you must
give my husband a terrible punishment because he has broken
the pledge again. Again, the priest said send them
to me. The priest said send them to me
10 feet tall. She sent him to the priest and
the priest gave him the pledge and said if you break the bed
again, I will turn you into a lot.
I love this priest. Yeah, yeah.
And Father, Father, Colossus. His name for the Paris Father
Colossus. Father Title Colossus.
Father Titan anyway, the man. The man did not break, for he
has to eat to begat his communion anyway.
The man did not drink for a number of weeks, but one day he
met a friend and was forced into the pub.
She had a friend. Happens.
Man, I've met a friend. Sure, met a friend.
What else is like to do? I like it.
He made one. I made a friend.
We had to go for a drink. The man went home drunk, and
when he was a while at home he thought of what he had done and
he said to his wife, if you see me getting small and hairy, for
God's sake, put out the cat. That's gas.
So good man, isn't that so good? I want that stitch done like,
you know, laugh, love. Yeah, yeah, it would.
No contest if you see, if you see me.
The cat That was really good story.
It was collected by Mary Connolly of Ballymore, County
Tipperary, and he she collected it from Mr. Connolly.
There must have been a Connolly going around everywhere
servicing people. Sorry, that's very rude, but
there's a lot of Connolly. There is a lot of he was.
Like Pat Muster, this was one man.
I found that it was on paper and I had to type it down myself.
Am I great? I really appreciate that.
A man from this parish went to the Barber at Kinmere.
The man was very nervous as the Barber was shaving him quickly.
He caught a pimple on his face. The Barber rubbed more soap and
his face was covered in soap and blood.
The man looked at the mirror and the Barber, still holding the
razor in his hand, asked did he want anything on his face?
For God's sake, Sir, leave the nose on.
The nose stays on. Do you know what's funny, man?
That story made that was connected by Dear Middle who
live on Great day Kenny. I'm a I'm a complimentary of the
names today. Yeah, everybody.
You like the names? Nice.
That story made me think of the fact that one barbers, yes, they
stood in the past two pimples. The word pimple, pimple.
Seems like such an American, doesn't it?
I wonder when pimples came to Ireland.
I thought it came over on the boat.
Do you want to hear a story about the Dylan's?
I'd love to. Long ago, a big rat used to
follow the Dylan's Dylan shot the rat, and from that day to
this, the rat is on the tombstone where he's buried in
Jermaine Graveyard. You see some rats on tombstones,
as in Chilean, or they're like a part of it.
They're carved into a carved. Interesting.
You see, sometimes it used to be a popular thing to carve in how
they died, which I find really weird.
There's there's a grave near me at home, and it has, it says
like killed by horse and like a carving of a whoa, that's like
the one man remember when he read the story about the Dovar
coup? That Dovar coup was meant to be
on those dead couples gravestones as well.
How are you? No, I'm joking.
I'm good man. Life's happening all the time.
And by Christ, I hope it never stops.
That's this was an interesting one to be for those rats, yeah.
And noses were there. And bananas.
Bananas were only slightly there because, realistically, bananas
didn't come to Ireland. If you submission didn't come
up, it's because it's such a good and broad and.
Ballsy topic that we need to do a whole episode, Yeah, or it'll
be featured elsewhere, Don't you worry.
We have other words such as dance.
Oh yeah, we didn't want to go mad.
Mad treachery. Lakes of Carbon Pattern Day.
Rat tidbits. Rat tidbits.
So me and Aaron, we have, that's what I essentially was saying,
well fit. We'll have a story to finish
that. Before we do that, we'll just
look at a few rats and yes, change it up a bit.
Let's change it up. We've been talking.
We've been talking too much. Let's talk about rats, go Sorry.
Oh, is this how it's going to be always in the water and always
very dry? A water rat, but never have
guessed it. It is supposed that there is
poison in an asses bite. I've been bitten by many nurse,
by Christ I've been poisoned. It is supposed that there is
poison in an ass's bite or a cat's lick.
I was heartbroken. I have gotten the asses bite.
Since then I've been suffering from Willy doubt.
She came into the room like a bullet.
It is supposed that there is poison in an ass's bite, or a
cat's bite, or a scrape or a weasels or a rat's bite.
It is supposed that there is a curse on Janet's because they do
not breed. It is also supposed that rabbits
and hares sleep with their eyes open.
It is not right to kill a swan. If the leaves of the elder are
strewn upon each layer of sheaves as they are set in the
stack, no rat will go near the stack, and I know that to be
true. I love that.
I love my. Story and there's not a bit.
I know that to be true. There was a woman who was a
great miser. The only thing she ever gave
away in her life was a kilo of milk that a rat had fallen into,
and she died. She was seen every night in the
dairy drinking the milk in the form of a rat.
Damn, it's lucky to see a rat cross the road, but if he goes
halfway and turns back, it is unlucky.
Yeah, you don't want a hesitant rat, no hesitant rat, bad vibe.
It is said that led with the landlord that was living in
Ledwitt's town, aptly named House, used to give 2 pence to
anyone who would give him the tale of a rat.
At that time, rats were plentiful and he wanted to get
rid of them. Let's thanks for listening, but
we'll read one more story for all you sinners out there.
Are you ready? Yes.
This one's called wrong deeds and they're just punishments.
Take this with you and think about it hard.
Now, if if you're if you've been, if you're a Sinner,
wrongdoing is very often punished by Almighty God, even
in this world. Often, too, the wrongdoers are
punished by him severely for their actions.
Many instances of God's anger towards the wildest are recorded
here and there throughout the country.
God seems to deal with punishment quickly and severely
to those who offend or insult his special servants, namely the
Karaji. A particular instance in this
locality is that of a man who was always fighting with and
abusing priests. On one occasion he beat a priest
savagely, and as he had his hand raised to strike him again, the
priest commanded him to stay his hand.
The man's hand remained to his nose and it is related in good
authority that in that position his hand remained until his
dying hour that was collected by Vincent Denini, Coronary County.
Kevin Vincent's God Fearing I'd say stay.
Your hand. It's a funny way.
Stay. Stay your hand as he battering
the head off, your teeth flying all over, nose bloody.
I suck it, Luke. We sat in a room there and spent
an awful long time talking. I don't know if I know you
better, Aaron, but I certainly know rats, Luke.
If anything, we'd say I know you're worse.
Happy brains or rats? Again, listen, guys, listen.
So much for listening. Thanks for listening.
Yeah, I don't need to tell you to listen.
You've been doing that for a good while.
You have. Thing I've been trying to ask.
I hate doing it guys, but go on, Joe.
The written thing is actually really important on the podcast
and telling your friends but rating.
Yeah, yeah, that's. I actually prefer your dead,
right. I like the word of mouth.
Where do you rate US though? If you're in your podcasting
app, if you just click those the stars please let's click.
The Hollow Stars. Full make them full.
I could feel someone's doing it right now.
Three stars. Wow.
Oh. No, everyone's been very kind.
Everyone's been very kind. Let's tell your friends about
it. Look, somebody find it relaxing.
Somebody find that it's a bit of a laugh tis an escape from the
day, tis a bit of joke. And.
It's good crack. I hope you feel like you're
drinking tea with us and laughing along.
Thanks for listening folks. Thanks for enjoying it.
And it's just good. Everyone says it, but you can
believe it here, it's just we wouldn't be doing it.
It wasn't good crack. No, boy, Luke.
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you, man. For enjoying I enjoy this.
I've I've had a thoroughly enjoyable time here.
I feel revitalized. In this rat stand that we've
been recording, they're getting closer and I'm not afraid.
Yeah, they're in around my ankles.
They're biting. But I like it.
It's too. Late they're sitting beside the
fire and it's quite cute. I think they've got the dinner
on. All right guys, eh?
Wherever you are, remember a rat is probably about I will just
the 2 meters away or something. There's one pulling you by the
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Christ, they're coming.