1 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:09,520 In the parish of Killymore, quite recently, a woman had only 2 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:14,400 one cow, and yet she sold as much butter as two extensive 3 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:16,640 farms near her who had several cows. 4 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:20,760 One of these men was talking to a neighbour one day and he was 5 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:24,120 complaining that his wife could have no butter but that the 6 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:26,680 above mentioned woman could have plenty of it. 7 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:29,960 The neighbour told the man to get a bottle and to go some 8 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:32,880 night and milk the suspected woman's cow into it, and to 9 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:36,880 bring home this milk and use it. The man did as he had been 10 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,720 advised by the neighbour, and the butter was restored to his 11 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:43,600 own cow's milk. In other cases, the priest had 12 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:48,400 to interfere. Collector Evelyn NIA lady who's 13 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:52,440 a moon tour from Dunmore County Galway informant was a John 14 00:00:52,440 --> 00:01:00,040 Robinson. Hello and welcome. 15 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:03,600 To the Pitch Rogues podcast. Peddlers of Irish myth. 16 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:06,640 Folklore. And some superstition. 17 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:09,840 Oh, Luke, I'm sitting in a room with you. 18 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:12,880 Have we met the joke as the regular stations? 19 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,080 And that's a joke I don't welcome on this podcast. 20 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:17,920 That's OK. That's OK. 21 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:20,000 What are we talking about today, Luke? 22 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:23,840 And today, Aaron, we're talking about something that is very 23 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:25,720 important to Ireland. It's in. 24 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:28,640 It's in all our stockings at Christmas. 25 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:32,240 It's very important to me. And it's very Aaron, I would say 26 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:36,520 you your area perfect. Oh yes, thing. 27 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:39,520 I want is this thing. I ain't talking about being 28 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:41,040 handsome and. Polite and lovely. 29 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:45,040 Oh damn, look at that guy. I buttering you up because 30 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:47,920 today's episode is about just that, Butter. 31 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:50,440 Butter. Boo, as you know, you love it. 32 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:53,400 Find me someone who's listening to this episode who doesn't like 33 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:54,920 butter. I find them people. 34 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:58,320 Do not show them to me, I'll point and laugh. 35 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:03,320 You you are a man that at one point lactose was a curse upon 36 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:05,040 your life. It was butter is. 37 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:07,200 How does butter rank in the? I bet it's better. 38 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,560 On the lactose scale, I'm going to need that milk has the most. 39 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:14,040 So if you process milk, I think you're kind of getting less and 40 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:15,920 less lactose as you go down the chain there. 41 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:18,600 But dude, the lack my lactose intolerance. 42 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,960 Just to let you know, folks, my name is Aaron and I used drink 43 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:24,600 about a liter of milk every day until I left home and went to 44 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,320 college. And then I stopped drinking 45 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:31,480 liter milk every day and my body was like, no more milk for you. 46 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:34,640 But also I was an anxious mess. So I think it was more related 47 00:02:34,640 --> 00:02:40,000 to my gut brain health rather than my actual bacteria 48 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:42,760 capabilities. Yeah, we're not talking about 49 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:44,640 hot milk today. We're talking about butter. 50 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:48,960 We're talking about Kerry Gold. We're talking about dairy gold. 51 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:52,120 We're talking about that sweet gold that you get from. 52 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:55,560 And everyone knows that Ireland is the best butter. 53 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:57,080 It's a big thing. We've the best. 54 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:59,720 Dairy, full stop. Oh, sorry. 55 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,360 Did you curse on my podcast? It's your podcast. 56 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:08,440 It's your podcast. It's your podcast. 57 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:12,240 It's your podcast. Kim Kardashian has had Kerry 58 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:15,400 Gold. All right. 59 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,800 There's certain celebs job and they're like like you gotta get 60 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:21,800 there you go. Yeah, like they're like, I ain't 61 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:24,080 touching it well. I think we export Mary more 62 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:24,920 dairy. Mary more. 63 00:03:24,920 --> 00:03:27,120 We export more dairy than we consume in this country. 64 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,440 I'm putting that out of my ass. That's a great try, Aaron. 65 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:37,760 Oh, you're there. Sorry, Aaron. 66 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:43,400 Let's say an extraterrestrial. He's down ice rock him down from 67 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:47,040 Mars, Right? And he has no concept of this 68 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:47,760 place called. Hmm. 69 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:50,360 What is butter? What is it? 70 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:52,840 I was saying to you, man, there's so many things that are 71 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:53,880 called butter. Yeah. 72 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:55,520 Peanut butter. Shy butter. 73 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,840 Shea butter Shay you can get pistachio butter. 74 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:00,360 But I ain't. Butter. 75 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:02,280 He's butter. Just a state of mind. 76 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:05,720 Butter. I'll tell you what butter is. 77 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:09,880 So Elaine Kostrova traces the invention of butter back to the 78 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:13,400 Neolithic Africa. Dude. 8000 BC. 79 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:17,800 In her book Butter a Rich History, she writes that 80 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:20,279 Butter's invention likely traces back to. 81 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:24,560 Neolithic Africa around 8000 BC. Did she write that twice? 82 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:29,400 A nomadic sheep herdsman was travelling with his flock atop a 83 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,800 pack animal when the sheep herder reached back for his 84 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:35,560 sheepskin to take a swig of the animal's milk. 85 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,120 He found the coagulated into a mixture of butter and 86 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:43,400 buttermilk, the shaky journey over uneven terrain having 87 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:46,280 churned the sheep's milk into something altogether different. 88 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:52,720 And undeniably delicious. Do you think I'm what story? 89 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:55,640 How do they verify that story? Or is that theoretical? 90 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:59,080 It's theoretical, but it does seem that butters started in 91 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:03,320 Africa like the Blues and rock'n'roll and a lot of things 92 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:06,960 started in Africa. Is that the truth, man, or is 93 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:09,280 that black people just in general started those? 94 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:12,440 Well the humanity dude, Africa is a cradle of humanity so I 95 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:14,320 think they were the first farmers so they would have 96 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:16,000 experienced the first creation of butter. 97 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:20,480 And isn't it funny? Man, I remember when I was in 98 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:22,520 school when they talked about when did humans learn to cook 99 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:24,360 food? And it was a similar situation. 100 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:27,920 But like, it's always just that they're like, oh, maybe someone 101 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:30,400 had a pig in their house and then their house caught fire. 102 00:05:30,840 --> 00:05:32,160 That's right. And then they came home. 103 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:35,560 Upon the devastation of discovery, they have to burn 104 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:37,640 down. Let's eat, Jerry. 105 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:39,400 Jerry. Pretty good. 106 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:41,640 Oh yeah. Maybe it wasn't a pig. 107 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,240 Maybe there was a human. No, the pig is called Jerry, I 108 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:47,120 presume. Mostly things are accidentally. 109 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:49,720 Well, we all know the first pig that was cooked was called. 110 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:54,880 Jerry and Jerry tasted real nice. 111 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:04,120 And do you have any idea why butter, like sometimes it's 112 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:06,480 white, it's a lot of it in Ireland is yellow. 113 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:09,200 Is that is that a teller of the quality of the butter or is that 114 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:11,360 just arrow? Do you really want to know the 115 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:15,160 answer to that question? Yes, it's so generally, why is 116 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:18,120 it have a color? The genetics of the animal and 117 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:20,760 what they eat decides the color of the butter. 118 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:23,520 So we in Ireland, it's mostly gold butter. 119 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:28,240 Here they're grass fed cows, but they eat the herbs, the Clover. 120 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:31,120 They're eating all these different herbs and flowers in 121 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:32,880 the field. Man gives them a lovely yellow 122 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:39,480 color and in these in time before processing butter, the 123 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:42,600 animal's butter would change throughout the year where they'd 124 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:44,480 be yellower in the summer, and in the winter months their 125 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:47,560 butter would be whiter, but they would add stuff to make it look 126 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:50,720 more yellow. I want that golden animal stuff. 127 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:52,080 Would you get different flavored butter? 128 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:54,240 Like if I fed a Chicago enough garlic. 129 00:06:54,840 --> 00:06:55,720 Garlic butter. It's. 130 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:58,480 Garlic butter. That's how it invented. 131 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:06,520 Butter invade was invented, created, founded in Africa 8000 132 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:09,120 BC. It took quite a while to get to 133 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:11,560 Ireland. We can trace it back to roughly 134 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:16,000 1000 to 2000 BC. In Ireland is when bogged butter 135 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:20,200 is being dug up and dated to. So the earliest details of the 136 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:25,000 manufacture of butter, it's from the Arabs and Syrians. 137 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,120 The the original practice of these Arabs and Syrians, so far 138 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:33,280 as it is known, was to use vessels made from goat skin as 139 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:36,400 sort of a proto churn. This blows my mind. 140 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:40,160 The animal was skinned and then the skin is sold up tight, 141 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:44,520 leaving an opening only at the left foreleg where the cream was 142 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:46,520 poured in. This is a grizzly image. 143 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:48,880 Crazy dude. I want to have affected the 144 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:51,000 flavor. The churn was then suspended 145 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,320 from tent poles. And swarm up till the butter 146 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:57,320 comes. Butter, come the butter, come 147 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:00,360 now. It they, they, they use the term 148 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:04,000 butter coming a lot because Evan, you're just whacking the 149 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,440 milk and the cream around and all of a sudden. 150 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:09,560 Transporter dude. This, incidentally, is the 151 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:11,320 earliest known process of making butter. 152 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:12,640 So they were just trying it, man. 153 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:14,600 They were just saying they were. Swinging it around. 154 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:18,000 They were putting milk in a big goat's hide and swinging it 155 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:19,440 around and butter came out. Dude. 156 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:23,920 And butter for the longest time was considered a lowly person's 157 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:25,480 thing. Like peasants would eat butter. 158 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:27,680 Suppose they saw them outside shaking their butter. 159 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:29,800 Sticks shaking their butter sticks when what's going on, but 160 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:32,799 after the fall in Rome and too much of the Middle Ages, but it 161 00:08:32,799 --> 00:08:35,840 was a common food. It had a low reputation, but as 162 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:39,200 the centuries went by, as we're approaching in the 20th century, 163 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:43,039 roughly 16th century, people are like, oh wait, this butter thing 164 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:44,920 pretty great. You put that on bread. 165 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:46,960 That's nice have. You seen what the pores have 166 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:48,840 been eating you with butter. You. 167 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,000 Fry your onions in the butter. You fry your mushrooms in the 168 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:53,000 butter. Delicious. 169 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,040 And everyone around the world all of a sudden is catching on 170 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:55,920 to this butter. I wonder. 171 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:57,840 How they were eating at the first people where they've. 172 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:00,480 Just eaten sticks dude. You just get a stick and you 173 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:02,840 bite it like a bar. No, I have no idea how they eat 174 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:11,240 the butter. Greek comic poet Annex Andreas 175 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:16,240 Yes refers to the Thracians as booty row pagoy. 176 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:18,760 Yes. Perfect pronunciation by butter 177 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:19,800 eaters. Butter Eaters. 178 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:21,560 Sure, they're only a pack of butter. 179 00:09:21,560 --> 00:09:24,040 Eaters. It's a good insult. 180 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:26,480 Pliny the Elder, he always comes up. 181 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:28,120 He does. I call him Pliny, but you call 182 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:28,840 him Pliny. It's. 183 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:30,800 Probably plenty. Let's call him Pliny. 184 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:35,680 Pliny, back when Michael Pliny was a Pliny the Elder, calls 185 00:09:35,680 --> 00:09:38,680 butter the most delicate of food among barbers. 186 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:40,360 That's like a backhanded compliment. 187 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:43,400 It is like, Oh yeah, that's the most, that's the most beautiful 188 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,800 part of an ugly body. And the Romans use considered a 189 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:48,920 barbarian city. Just butter eaters, lad. 190 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:51,400 And it was meant like to me. I'm like, you think you're 191 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:54,720 insulting me because I've discovered the joy of butter in 192 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:56,720 my life. John, there's a chart though 193 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:58,280 which we should put up on the page. 194 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:02,160 It's like it shows the use whether people use or olive oil 195 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:05,200 or butter more and the Mediterraneans that's. 196 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:06,520 That they just love oil full stuff. 197 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:09,280 And we we butter eaters and they're like the. 198 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:10,960 They're olive Oilers. They're olive. 199 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:18,320 Oilers. We have an old churn at home. 200 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:22,640 These are the parts of the churn, the dash, the cosh and 201 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:24,960 the cup. The cup is for keeping in the 202 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:27,360 milk. There's an old saying about the 203 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:29,840 churn. If the milk splashes out on the 204 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:33,280 woman, she's sure to be married to a drunkard. 205 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:36,760 When a woman is getting ready for churning, she puts a coal 206 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:38,640 and a grain of salt under the churn. 207 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:41,680 When anyone comes into the house, they should take a go 208 00:10:41,680 --> 00:10:44,760 with the churn for a while. The old people say it is not 209 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:47,200 right to go out without taking the dash. 210 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:51,920 If they don't, the fairies will come and take the butter. 211 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:59,080 Kevin Danaher describes Ireland as a lamb flowing with milk and 212 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:02,480 he he mentions an account by an English soldier from 1690. 213 00:11:02,680 --> 00:11:05,840 It says that the Irish were the greatest lovers of milk he had 214 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:07,320 ever seen. Hell yeah. 215 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:11,280 He mentions how they eat and drink it above 20 several sorts 216 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:13,360 of ways. I'd love to know the 20 ways 217 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:17,160 name them I. Can drink 20 different milk 218 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:20,080 upside. Butter, cheese, yogurt. 219 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:22,760 Yogurt. Give me the 60 more. 220 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:27,240 Give me the. 60 of my wife, my wife. 221 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:30,520 It would come as no surprise then, with claims such as these 222 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:33,880 that there is a rich and colorful tradition of folklore 223 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:38,480 attached to dairy production. And that's what you'll see guys. 224 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:43,480 There is any amount of weird superstitions in relation to the 225 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:46,040 process of making. You want me to hit you with some 226 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:47,400 of them? Yeah. 227 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:52,240 If a person sings while they're making a cow, the cow gives more 228 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:55,400 milk. If the cow is left in the 229 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:58,920 stables all day, she gives less. Milk where she's unhappy that. 230 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:00,880 Stands to reason, and also you're probably not chewing. 231 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:03,800 Not chewing the curd. Got to chew the curd. 232 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:07,120 A guy, you chew the curd. We're just sitting here chewing 233 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:11,000 the curd, shooting the breeze. Happy cows give better milk. 234 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:15,400 It's true fact. If a person sells or gives away 235 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:18,280 any of the butter or buttermilk out of the first churning of 236 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:21,400 milk after a cow calves, she will not give as much the next 237 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:24,480 time. If a person washes or churn 238 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:28,200 beside a river with a beesom and throws the beesom there, the 239 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:30,200 fairies take the butter from them. 240 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:32,560 Are we allowed to say Beesom on radio? 241 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:36,240 What's a beesom to you? It was amazing me. 242 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:39,400 I think it's a bunch of Heather just for cleaning out things 243 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:42,400 clean about. If a person did not put a pinch 244 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:45,800 of salt and quenched coal under the churn when they were 245 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:48,920 churning, the fairies would take the butter. 246 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:52,760 If a person went into a house where the people were churning 247 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:55,680 and did not churn, they would have the butter taken away from. 248 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:57,920 So that's just good common decency. 249 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:00,240 You come into my house. You churn my butter. 250 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:04,840 Buddy. Buddy, turn the butter. 251 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:09,640 Butter dude, not cool. If a person cannot get butter to 252 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:13,160 come on the churn, they put a piece of a plow in the heart of 253 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:17,000 the fire till it gets red with heat, and butter will come back. 254 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:20,760 If a person did not make the sign of the cross on the dash of 255 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:23,000 the I thought you were telling me to stop. 256 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:24,600 No, I was doing the sign of the cross. 257 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:27,520 If a person did not make the sign of the cross and the dash 258 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:30,480 of the churn before they go churning, the devil would take 259 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:33,640 the the devil the devil. It's the fairies are the devil. 260 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:36,280 You can't in Ireland. One of them is always out to get 261 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:36,880 you. Have you noticed? 262 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:40,480 That the Satan is sitting on a mountain of. 263 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:44,040 Butter and with the fairies. The road to hell is paved with 264 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:47,480 good butter. They always say that if a person 265 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:50,520 does not make the sign of the cross on a cow before milking, 266 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:53,600 she would not give much milk. These are all corrected, 267 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:58,840 collected by a Nora Nikolta from Ruski County Mayo. 268 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:03,720 As you can see, Luke, lots of superstition around making 269 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:06,800 butter. Butter in Ireland was a very 270 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,920 important task because #1 you'd eat the butter, it's going to 271 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:11,400 fill you up, it's going to fatten you up. 272 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:15,000 Long winters, hard weather, hard work to be done in the field. 273 00:14:16,560 --> 00:14:19,600 And it stands to reason if your life revolves around something. 274 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:22,000 And also there's a bit of a knack to it. 275 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:25,840 You see it today, but not with a maybe not in the same 276 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:27,560 superstitious thing. But you have any straight of 277 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:30,760 action people get like whether it's like sports, people in 278 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:33,560 people in football have a lot of superstitions they carry. 279 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:36,640 Yeah, do wiggly, wiggly dances before we play. 280 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:39,160 Because black. So it also had economical 281 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:41,240 benefits for the family because if the family wasn't producing 282 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:43,360 much of it, like, all right, let's sell some of this butter 283 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:45,640 we got. And as I said, it was the 284 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:47,760 woman's job in the house. She would make the butter on a 285 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:55,040 particular day in the week. Look, how do you make butter in 286 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:57,200 your own time? I would imagine. 287 00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:59,760 Go on and hit me and I'll tell you how, but go on. 288 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:02,520 And when you're, you put it into return. 289 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,920 You put water. Milk you put, you're allowed 290 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:10,440 and. You put your child in the chair. 291 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:18,400 You put milk into this tune, you close the lid, you press go. 292 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:24,000 Back a few days later. Zooey, you got it. 293 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:26,480 No, you, you. There's like a plunging element, 294 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:27,080 isn't. There, yeah. 295 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:29,800 So you're. Essentially just wanted to shake 296 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:31,560 the bad boy. Up There's a bit of contention 297 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:33,440 here. So I read that in the north of 298 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:36,920 Ireland they would just excuse me of the police looking. 299 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:38,920 For our butter out there. Oh my God. 300 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:43,480 Found the butter. So in the north of Ireland they 301 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,000 would just take the straight butter and start churning it. 302 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,280 But I think we figured out the secret to the golden butter in 303 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:51,400 Ireland, in South of Ireland to carry here. 304 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:55,680 So when we did, we let the milk settle, scrape the cream off the 305 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:58,640 top and just use the cream then. That's. 306 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:01,320 Then we just churn up the cream and that's why it's that. 307 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:05,840 Rich, thick gold butter. That's the difference between 308 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:10,680 you and I, I guess. When you see us in person, just 309 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:11,880 know the only difference. He. 310 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:13,520 Looks like a lot. He looks like a lot of the 311 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:15,120 churches. Butter right off the bat. 312 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:16,320 I burned. I turned. 313 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:18,440 I turned the cream that you turn the milk. 314 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:20,520 Yeah. Entailed by the head new boy 315 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:23,880 that's. The that's he turns the cream I 316 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:27,560 showed the milk. So you let the you get a 317 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:31,120 container with the fresh milk, let it settle, cream rises up, 318 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:34,360 take the cream off. Then you have to let the cream 319 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:37,520 develop. Dude, that could take a few 320 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:40,000 days. Put your cream in the churn, 321 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,560 churner up. Keep churning as you churn it. 322 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:44,240 What's happening? Do you know what's happening? 323 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:46,960 The liquid is separating from the fat. 324 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:50,200 So you get two things in there. You get a big hunk of butter, 325 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:53,080 and then you have this white buttermilk liquid. 326 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:55,440 So you drain off all that liquid and buttermilk. 327 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:57,320 Have you ever drank that by accident out of a character? 328 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:00,920 I've definitely sampled it as a. Young boy, something else like. 329 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:03,640 It's different flavor, but what's funny is your painting. 330 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:07,480 It's called buttermilk. Surely it's like the surely, 331 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:10,200 Surely it's the least buttery milk of all if the butter is 332 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:11,720 there. But standing beside it and it's 333 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:16,000 no. Yeah. 334 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,920 The butter is over there. And I'm over here. 335 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:21,000 Nobody came from. It's a good point. 336 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,240 We're going to have to buy some. Rain from the butter. 337 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:25,640 Yeah, technically it's the butter's milk. 338 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:26,240 It's the. Proud. 339 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:28,720 Yeah, it's a byproduct of butter. 340 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:32,280 If you butter, if you milk the butter, you get buttermilk. 341 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:38,200 It's what it is. I stopped it, set it up, slap it 342 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:42,640 all, get it online. So, so that's what that's how 343 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:44,320 the butter will be made. You'd separate it out. 344 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:46,120 Then you actually have to wash your butter. 345 00:17:46,120 --> 00:17:48,920 Then you'd have to wash the butter off the buttermilk 346 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:50,960 because if there was any buttermilk left on your butter, 347 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,320 it was like on sour and destroy your butter. 348 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:57,480 You do really clean out your churn after as well because if 349 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:00,480 there's any buttermilk left in there, he's going to go rotten, 350 00:18:01,120 --> 00:18:11,200 he go dirty, go bad. Berries do help people in many 351 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:13,720 ways. If you're up late at night and 352 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:17,560 if you're churning and if it's after 12:00, they are sure to 353 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:21,280 come in and help you. They will wait there. 354 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:23,400 They're. Sure, they're sure to come in 355 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:25,840 and help without asking. They will wait there and the 356 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:27,920 people of the house will have to go to bed. 357 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:30,680 I'm imagining man he's. Such a strange. 358 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:33,360 You're like you. You can kind of see them looking 359 00:18:33,360 --> 00:18:34,880 in through the windows and sleeping. 360 00:18:35,120 --> 00:18:37,600 Yeah, yeah, we better go to bed. And he's everybody. 361 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:39,720 Come in. The hours go by, moreheads are 362 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:41,160 just staring at you. Go to bed. 363 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:43,280 Beds I need to. Make go on to bed. 364 00:18:44,120 --> 00:18:48,000 Look at all that milk. He's got a tons of it. 365 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,320 They will take out the butter and bring it with them. 366 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:51,760 Oh. See. 367 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:54,680 The people of the House would be at the loss of the butter. 368 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:57,400 That is why people do not be churning late at night. 369 00:18:57,760 --> 00:19:00,200 So how contradictory was that story? 370 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,880 And the reason I included it was it started with fairies do help 371 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:06,800 people in many ways. And then it says they take your 372 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:08,320 butter and take it. Away. 373 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:10,720 I was confused. I thought that I just assumed 374 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:12,200 that that story would end with. The no. 375 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:15,080 I left it in because of how contradictory it is. 376 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:17,360 Just to show how contradictory folklore. 377 00:19:17,360 --> 00:19:20,920 Can Sometimes I think these stories are like poor collector 378 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:25,400 Norman Equivalon was talking to that Martin Cunningham or 379 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,800 whoever it is and he's he's she's trying to she's going to 380 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:30,480 hell for leather with her pencil, but she. 381 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:32,640 Came right past. When he what, he's talking like 382 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:34,240 he goes. Are your fairies to help in 383 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:36,400 their own way. By the end he's messed up his 384 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,640 own story. I'm sure they didn't take all 385 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:40,160 the butter. It was all gone. 386 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:44,160 So they took it. The fairies only ever the 387 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:46,280 stories I've only read they take the butter dude. 388 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:48,200 They're not helping you make the butter. 389 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:51,000 And why you are past midnight churn and butter. 390 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:52,600 What's going on in your life? Get. 391 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:55,760 Your maybe you're doing all the daytime activity and that's what 392 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:57,360 you do. You do all the milk and during 393 00:19:57,360 --> 00:19:58,760 the I remember there's a spirit of. 394 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:04,240 Time. More superstition, dude. 395 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:07,080 So superstition. Irish people love it. 396 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:10,840 Butter Irish people love them. Mix them both together, what do 397 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:13,160 you get? Long ago there lived a woman in 398 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:15,720 Ratley. She brought her turn to the well 399 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:18,920 to wash and scrub it. She used a bunch of header as a 400 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:21,720 scrubbing brush. She forgot to bring her brush 401 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:25,120 back with her, and another one woman picked it up and kept it. 402 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:29,160 The woman who lost her brush never had a good churning after 403 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:31,480 that. She could never get butter off 404 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:33,000 her milk. A milk. 405 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,560 Give me the butter. And the woman who found the 406 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:42,040 brush always had twice the usual quantity of butter or milk that 407 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:44,120 was connected. Collected by more Andy Kelly 408 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:48,600 from Pat O'Brien in Carol Mcbrien, County Sligo. 409 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:50,280 There you go, man. There. 410 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:52,200 You go well. Taking butter? 411 00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:59,440 We did. We talked about mayday before. 412 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,840 Remember gathering the Jew or using the Jew of the Mayday to 413 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:04,640 keep yourself young. I wonder if we talked. 414 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:06,040 About butter in that I can't remember. 415 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:09,400 We probably did, because Mayday is the biggest day for stealing 416 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:11,800 people's butter. And when I tell you about a 417 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:15,480 story of a lady who's really good at stealing butter. 418 00:21:16,120 --> 00:21:16,680 I'm. Scared. 419 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,560 Here we go. She could do it and she did. 420 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:22,640 Is it old Nancy? She was in league with the 421 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:25,120 devil. She did have now just at the 422 00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:28,840 butt of Knock Boy in Hill, and she could take the butter all 423 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:31,920 night. There was a neighbour that had 424 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:35,760 the finest barn of cows you could lay your eyes on, and one 425 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:38,160 week not a bit of butter would come in the turn. 426 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:41,280 Nothing but fraught and an awful smell out of it. 427 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:44,960 I see it with the sight of my two eyes. 428 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:48,280 And you know how she did it. She would wait till a calf 429 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:51,760 belonging to someone died and she would keep it until it was 430 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:54,560 beginning to rot. And she would take it then and 431 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:58,280 bury it then and bury it somewhere in the land while that 432 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:01,160 dead calf belonging to some person was there. 433 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,000 You couldn't get a bit of butter. 434 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:06,680 They told the priest and fate. He banished her. 435 00:22:07,120 --> 00:22:10,480 And whenever one went into a house, that time when a churning 436 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:14,400 was going on, he put his hand on the churning and say make Baha 437 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:19,040 ma Ong and some people would put a Coulter in the fire, because 438 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:24,160 bad spirits hate anything hot. That was connected. 439 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:27,840 Collected by Nora Lyon from Kedern's and There There. 440 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,920 I want that on AT shirt. Bad spirits hate anything hot. 441 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:32,600 Anything. Hot The way they wrote that 442 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:35,400 story, she This is how the story starts. 443 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:39,200 She could do it, and she did. Is it how Nancy it's? 444 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:43,080 Great man, it sounds like a bread and bread ass. 445 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:45,640 Whoever wrote that? Well then, Nora, you did a 446 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:48,720 fantastic job. I do like the line. 447 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:51,520 She could take the butter all night. 448 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:53,440 Oh, she could take the butter all night. 449 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,760 I also it reminded me of my mom used to do a rhyme. 450 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:58,120 It's not a very good tongue twister. 451 00:22:58,120 --> 00:22:59,960 Was like Betty got a bit of butter but the butter was 452 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:01,800 bitter. Betty got a bit of butter, but 453 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:03,480 the butter was bitter. It's kind of fun and you. 454 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,600 Know they had churn songs as well so when the women were 455 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:09,960 churning. They probably kept the perfect 456 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:13,000 BPM. There's meant to be BPM of 4040 457 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,160 rotations per second on the barrel churn. 458 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:18,120 Could you give me an idea of what for Like is there a song? 459 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:20,320 Do we have any lyrics? Of the song, Yes we do, and I 460 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:24,200 will find that for you. Right now, very news. 461 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,080 Hello. You may just notice that I said 462 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:38,440 40 rotations per second, when as a matter of fact I meant 40 463 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:44,920 rotations per minute. My deepest apologies, Luke. 464 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,400 We were talking about churning songs. 465 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:49,640 This is. One come butter. 466 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:53,400 Come, come, butter, come. Peter stands at the gate, 467 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:56,640 waiting for buttered cake. Come butter, come. 468 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,440 And that's that. That's the pace. 469 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,400 I don't know the pace. 40 BPM LED I'm not sure. 470 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,480 Butter, come, come, butter, come. 471 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,320 Peter's standing at the gate, waiting for a buttered cake. 472 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:10,800 Come butter come, come, butter. Come. 473 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:12,960 Peter standing at the gate, waiting for. 474 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:16,120 A butter cake come, Butter come, come, come, butter come. 475 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:19,160 Peter's waiting at the gate waiting for a butter cake bomb 476 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,800 got her come. We'd have butter no time. 477 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:24,440 You could be the budget stumbling on that in the woods. 478 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:35,680 50 women churning butter. Luke, you're about to regale us 479 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:41,440 with a fantastic story, but we need to make it very clear here. 480 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,720 People stealing butter out there, you got to be careful. 481 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,480 The huge thievery of your. Butter, they're going to try and 482 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:50,640 steal your butter and it's not walk, they're not walking into 483 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,160 your house and just taking it. That's not how you're stealing 484 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,840 your butter. Luke, tell us how this more 485 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,080 involved well. She actually does break into the 486 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,000 house and literally steals the butter. 487 00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:02,160 They're not just. I was going to say, is that what 488 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:03,480 happened? What did? 489 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:05,520 What did you mean though? Just for context. 490 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:08,640 It was usually stolen by the charms. 491 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,960 And it's more than what I find is isn't they're not stealing 492 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:14,640 your butter per Southeast. No. 493 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:19,320 Stealing your logical essence of whatever goal like I think 494 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,600 people taught this butter because I suppose when you 495 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:23,200 didn't know what the technological no what's. 496 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:27,440 Happening there be cream and it turns into butter and sometimes 497 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,200 it doesn't. They could rub their head around 498 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:31,520 that. I bet they probably linked it to 499 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,560 their sins. They were like I'm not a good 500 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,160 person, etcetera. I'm not a good. 501 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:39,600 Person they would call it break in the butter man break that you 502 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,400 so you break the milk. That's how it turns in the 503 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:45,680 butter or the butter comes all these phrases they had with the. 504 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:49,200 Can't marry him for his family. No butter, no bother Comes to 505 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,280 that family. Yeah, That's that's really good. 506 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:52,080 Yeah. Nobody comes. 507 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:56,640 I was reading as well that each family would do their own little 508 00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:00,160 technique for the making of the butter and they would keep it a 509 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,000 huge secret. It would go intergenerationally, 510 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,120 these secrets to make the butter, but they would not leave 511 00:26:05,120 --> 00:26:06,600 the family. That's why they call them a 512 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:08,160 butter face man. That's because. 513 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,240 The butter face. Man is because yeah, he's not 514 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,400 much to look at, but he's up to his elbow. 515 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:24,000 This is an example of a woman who will break into your house. 516 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,640 This is similar to because a lot of the air hag stories there's 517 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,040 so much related to butter. And we're going to get through 518 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:31,960 it by. The foundation of folklore in 519 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:35,520 Ireland is a buttery base. It's a buttery. 520 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:38,000 Base buttery biscuit There was no biscuits. 521 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,720 By but it was pure butter. Long ago, the people were being 522 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:45,360 frightened by a ghost called Maureen Vaughn from the Devil's 523 00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:47,800 Tree. She was supposed to be seen 524 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:52,040 scattering fire from her and was said to be dressed in all white. 525 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:54,240 Wow. She stole all the butters she 526 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,680 could get and the people were afraid to stop her. 527 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,960 One night a farmer and his wife were wakened up at midnight by a 528 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:04,440 noise in the dairy. The wife asked her husband to go 529 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:06,520 out and see what was making the noise. 530 00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:09,040 Check what's making the noise. But he was afraid. 531 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,720 She got up herself and stole out to the dairy. 532 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:18,560 I love. Stole out. 533 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,480 Yeah. As quickly as possible peeped 534 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,280 in. She saw Maureen Vaughn inside 535 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:27,360 with a sheet covering her and another one spread out on the 536 00:27:27,360 --> 00:27:29,680 ground. She was carving the butter out 537 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,800 of the furkins and putting it into the sheet on the ground. 538 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,880 Every now and then she shook a canteen of red turf inside the 539 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:39,200 sheet and it looked as if she were on fire. 540 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,240 The farmer's wife did nothing but bang the door and locked. 541 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,640 Next morning, Maureen Vaughn was brought out and given into the 542 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,280 hands of the law. The hands of the law. 543 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:56,160 Informant P Walsh, gender unknown, addressed Tankard, 544 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,680 Stone, County Limerick. That's a great story. 545 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,960 I like how they called her a ghost at first and Maureen 546 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:06,200 Vaughn is a character in order things because evac once have a 547 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:07,400 song called Maureen. Born. 548 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:11,280 I kind of wish she wasn't caught by the long arm of the law. 549 00:28:11,360 --> 00:28:13,520 I hope that she just was no longer. 550 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:15,840 I love this technique though dude of having a sheet and 551 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:20,160 shaking a canteen of turf. Red turf like Ember turf to make 552 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,480 it look like this huge billowing flames. 553 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,240 It's funny as well in these stories, man, where it's almost 554 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:26,640 like the thing of like, what's it called? 555 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,280 The like the supply. Like there's often these moments 556 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,840 in, like, rope gothic horror where you like, you stumble upon 557 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:34,200 something, you're like, oh, my God. 558 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,840 But in this is like she sees this woman stealing her stuff 559 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:38,480 and then she closes the door and knocks. 560 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,120 I was like, oh, but then then the next morning, she's just 561 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:42,280 caught. I don't know. 562 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:43,800 Yeah, that's strange. It's like scooby-doo. 563 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,680 Yeah, well, I have to. The catching bit, the trap. 564 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,960 It's just like she sees the action and she accepts her and 565 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,720 then she's swiftly taken into that, but somehow. 566 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:56,120 But somehow this woman was the first because Maureen Vaughn was 567 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,960 a terror. This wasn't her first time. 568 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,120 Like she she was a known character. 569 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,560 And the what? All she meant, what did they 570 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,320 say? She could do it and she did it. 571 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:14,840 Maureen did that snap. This is a story of a woman who 572 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,720 won't break into your house and steal your. 573 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:20,400 But. But she'll do it a different 574 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,960 way. A boy named the Masterson lived 575 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:27,040 in the townland of Anahen near Arva minding he was minding the 576 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:32,320 cows of Core Donaghy. About 60 years ago, he saw a 577 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:36,600 woman come to a well, take off all her clothes and go into the 578 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,400 well. She started to team the water 579 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,960 out of the well with a trencher while saying. 580 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:46,920 The whole of it to me. The boy, not understanding that 581 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:51,200 she meant any harm, said. Behalf of it to me. 582 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,960 When he went home, his mother churned and found out that she 583 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,880 got as much butter from the churning as she would in an 584 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:01,120 ordinary course of events, having got from 20 turnings. 585 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:05,200 She told the priest, and he said the boy was not accountable. 586 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:09,280 Since he meant no harm, he blessed the well that the woman 587 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,040 was in. A lot of people in the town land 588 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:15,560 of Cordonahy failed to get butter from their milk for some 589 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:18,720 time before, but got it after the well was blessed. 590 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,160 Collected by Thomas Brady, Ballyduff, County Longford. 591 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:29,200 So in this instance I jump into the local well and I make it of 592 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:32,720 course and I say. All of it to me. 593 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:36,800 And you will you the whole of it to me, you know. 594 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,520 Butter for you, Sir. No, it's your butter. 595 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:41,360 Mine. That's why I almost imagine 596 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:45,280 there's this sacred yellowy or over every individual. 597 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:47,880 Wow, you know what I mean? And someone can like. 598 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:49,400 Take your aura. Yeah, yeah. 599 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,840 If you could see put on your butter goggles, you could see 600 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,040 that that woman over there has gone on our butter. 601 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:55,720 Yeah, that's how it's because the. 602 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:57,400 Evil eye is tied to butter as well. 603 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,120 If you evil eye that cow, that cow's not going to give you 604 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:06,880 butter. Look, we talked about Bitty 605 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:11,040 early, before a wise woman, a banned FASA some considered a 606 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:14,600 Kayla witch. And we're going to talk about 607 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,640 her again, the context of butter. 608 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,480 And she seems like a fierce woman in this one now. 609 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:23,600 Bitty lace is what I say. Oh, you're a bad man, bad boy. 610 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:31,120 My milk's been spoiled. If Bitty early came into a house 611 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:33,800 and the people churn and she would take the butter from them. 612 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,240 This is propaganda. One time there was an old woman 613 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,280 out in Clare. She had the finest barn of cows 614 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,880 you could lay eyes on, and during one week not a bit of 615 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,520 butter would come in the churn. If she was churn until morning, 616 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,120 nothing but froth an awful smell out of it. 617 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,680 Stink. There was a calf. 618 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:53,160 She's bright. You don't meet. 619 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:58,040 You don't, but frozen smell coming out of your turn. 620 00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:00,280 Lady, some stink out of your house, girl. 621 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,240 Girl, what's wrong? Gary have a mentor. 622 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,920 There was a calf after dying on the woman's neighbor, Biddy 623 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,440 Early had the dead calf to someone lifted off him. 624 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:14,960 Sorry, I'm joking. That's funny joke video Early 625 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:16,560 had the dead. You're such a dead. 626 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,840 Dog up and buried in the woman's land. 627 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:21,600 Yeah, that was bad. Biddy so man. 628 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:25,640 While the dead calf was in the land, she couldn't get any bit 629 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,800 of the butter. She told the priest about Biddy 630 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,120 Early and he haunted her out of the place. 631 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:35,840 From that time Biddy Early lived near Fico and before that she 632 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:40,600 lived near Lacronia, where three men coming home from digging 633 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,120 potatoes with their spades on their shoulders. 634 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,400 They met Biddy Early and she passed them by. 635 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:50,400 William saw briar stuck to her shirt, and trailing after her, 636 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:55,080 he took down his spade, cut off the end of the briar, and pure 637 00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:58,720 new milk ran out of the briar. Pure new milk is good pure new 638 00:32:58,720 --> 00:32:59,720 milk. Is a good name. 639 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,040 Yeah, that night the spade was stolen from him and he said it 640 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,600 was bitty early stolen. I love bitty early. 641 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:09,960 Man, checking your spade, your spade, you got my pure new milk. 642 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:12,160 I'm going to take your pure new spade. 643 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:17,120 The collector was Eileen, She's from Bonaglass going to call it, 644 00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,880 and the informant was Michael Kelly. 645 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:22,720 I'd say her on Michael. Kelly too, because they're 646 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:27,840 relatives to each other and he's also from Bona Glass, so thanks 647 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,800 for that. That was just fantastic. 648 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,400 BD's a great she's an animal of a woman. 649 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,520 Why is there something up a dead calf and dragged onto someone 650 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:38,240 else's land? She's an animal. 651 00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:42,120 Do you think people hated her? I think she's someone usually. 652 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:45,400 There was a mixed bag. I feared them, they feared her. 653 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,400 But I think she, she acted of her own accord, of course. 654 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:57,240 But if you wronged her, oh, by Christ, Luke, the Jew on your 655 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,080 land, I see your land out there and you get Jew on that in the 656 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,520 morning. I'm going to come over there 657 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:08,120 with a Spencer in the morning before you get up naked and I'm 658 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:09,239 going. To do you have to be naked? 659 00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,360 I'm going to don't ask questions. 660 00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:17,239 I'm going to drag my Spencer across your grass and I'm going 661 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:22,520 to repeat come all to me, Come all to me. 662 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,679 This is some image. You're going to wake up one 663 00:34:25,679 --> 00:34:28,080 morning and you're going to see me there with your Spencer. 664 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:31,000 It's your Spencer. I have your Spencer and I'm 665 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,639 rubbing it on your what? The hell is a Spencer? 666 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:37,480 Do you know what a Spencer is? You tie the cows 2 front legs 667 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,679 together with the Spencer to keep them steady while you're 668 00:34:40,679 --> 00:34:43,480 milking them. But I also read a thing that was 669 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:47,679 to stop them from roaming. So you tie the two front legs 670 00:34:47,679 --> 00:34:49,760 together and then they wouldn't, they wouldn't be able to roam 671 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:53,159 these spancils as well if it was made from an animal's hair, 672 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:55,719 sometimes a White Horse, if there's a white horse's hair 673 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:59,280 running through this spancil of whatever animal's hair, extra 674 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,760 powerful. Oh, and I saw you got one of 675 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:04,000 those behind your door and you better believe I'm going. 676 00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,160 To you better believe I'm stripping off all my clothes 677 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:08,320 from you. Did we? 678 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,400 I wonder if we talked about any of this and isn't this? 679 00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,160 Terrible. We did. 680 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,080 As long as with the snails thing we did like you pick up a snail, 681 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:16,440 you know what your lover is going to look like. 682 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:23,000 Many stories are told in connection with butter making. 683 00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:27,040 If people were covetous of their neighbours milk and butter and 684 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:31,120 wanted to have it themselves, it was customary for them to go out 685 00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:34,760 in the early dawn to the land where the cows were grazing. 686 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,040 If there were a stream flowing through the land, the 687 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:41,640 destructive person brought a reaping hook and while cutting 688 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:47,160 the flow of the stream with it said a few times, milk, butter, 689 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:51,960 milk and butter I. Want to see that in a minute? 690 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:56,560 Yeah, your butter. After this, he milked the cow 691 00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:58,920 and put the milk into his own churn at home. 692 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,720 In this way he could steal the milk and butter from a neighbor. 693 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:07,360 Another way was to run a reaping hook through the blades of grass 694 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:13,480 and say milk and butter, milk and butter. 695 00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:17,520 It was commonly believed when people had a large supply of 696 00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:20,880 milk and butter and had a few cows, this was what they were 697 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:24,240 practicing. Wow, I couldn't have but 698 00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:27,120 imagined that completely nude. Once again, this is from the 699 00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:30,320 last situation. Well the made you on the naked 700 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:34,160 skin keeps you young. So you want there's a real image 701 00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:39,240 getting taken here? Oh well, I take away your 702 00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:40,200 butter. I do that right? 703 00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:42,600 I took your butter away. You take my butter. 704 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,480 Yeah, yeah. And we're friends. 705 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:47,240 I take he's butter. He takes my butter. 706 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,640 He was taking butter of a different kind. 707 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:53,640 Oh no, I don't want to ask you any. 708 00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:57,640 Questions about that in old and sometimes you just say, ever 709 00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,640 just say things. All the time then. 710 00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,760 In olden times, the people firmly believe that certain 711 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:05,600 persons could take away the butter. 712 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,600 The only time this could happen was on a May morning. 713 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,680 Whoa, May. There is a local story told 714 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,960 about the business about 100 years ago. 715 00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:18,040 A man was going to a fair very early one morning. 716 00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,640 On his way to the fair he saw two women in a field. 717 00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:26,600 Each woman had a straw rope and they seemed to be drawing along 718 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:30,120 the ground just as if they were knocking the dew off the grass. 719 00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:33,920 As they walked along, the man stood listening and he heard 720 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:39,400 them repeating. Oh for me, Oh for me, Oh for me, 721 00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:44,320 oh for me. Oh, for me, the man going up to 722 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:48,760 the man going up to the two of them said in a joke for me. 723 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,800 A few days. For me. 724 00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:56,400 Oh that Ryan little man. A few days after this, his wife 725 00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,400 made a churning and the lid was lifted off the churn with the 726 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,640 amount of butter that came off the Queen. 727 00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,960 It was overflowing with Queenie. Butter. 728 00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:10,680 I love this idea of you're just in the field and these two women 729 00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:13,400 are reaping their hooks. They say this thing you say half 730 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:18,640 to me and that's how they explained you're overflowing 731 00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,520 with butter. This idea of I only put in a 732 00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:24,600 glass of milk and now the whole church like. 733 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:29,040 Energy, man, The butter is like, it's like tag whoever has it 734 00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:32,640 lasted. They're just percolating with 735 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,320 buttery energy. You either have the butter aura 736 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,040 or you don't. This is so. 737 00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:38,600 Do you know these people are stealing? 738 00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:40,800 I think. Should make butter our word for 739 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,000 swag. Butter. 740 00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:46,520 No swag, isn't it riz? Butter, butter. 741 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:48,040 You got the butter, you got butter. 742 00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:49,960 Damn, that boy's got. Butter you got. 743 00:38:50,240 --> 00:38:51,840 The Yeah, I like that. I like that. 744 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,400 Let's get that going, man. I've been watching you lately. 745 00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,360 You got that butter? Got that? 746 00:38:59,240 --> 00:39:01,400 Do you want to hear another thing These crafty people who 747 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:02,920 wanted to take your butter we're doing? 748 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:07,760 There is another way of stealing butter. 749 00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:13,200 That was to follow the milch cow 4 tracks made in the earth and 750 00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,680 gathered a clowber that stuck between the clefts of the feet. 751 00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:19,680 So many weird words. Should a set of these be 752 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,520 acquired, the farmer could expect a poor return of the 753 00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:26,280 butter for the next 12 months. But if procured by the owner of 754 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:31,360 the beast, no one could harm the cow or intervene with the butter 755 00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:36,280 yield. Fascinating stuff, man, and then 756 00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,440 interesting. So I'd watch your cow. 757 00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,680 I'd be like Daisy over there. She's good at making the buck 758 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,680 when she walks where her hoof leaves an imprint. 759 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:47,800 To take the little. Bit I'll take the little bit 760 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,840 that's left and I have taken all that cow's power. 761 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:52,400 And what would you do with that bit? 762 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,440 Then I just have it and it's mine, it's mine, it's mine and 763 00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:58,080 it's mine my cows. Gets from my hoof, I'll. 764 00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:02,560 Give me some more mayday things. I'll give you plenty more. 765 00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:03,720 Click on my head there, will you? 766 00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:08,160 Click on my head. Click in my head. 767 00:40:08,240 --> 00:40:10,960 Would you do me the honor of clicking on my head? 768 00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:14,080 I'll click your head any day because that you got that. 769 00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:16,800 Butter. You got that Butter People do 770 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:20,520 not churn on Mayday and they do not like to sell milk on Mayday. 771 00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:22,600 This is not one of those contradictory ones because the 772 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:24,800 previous story we read was the best. 773 00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:26,640 You need to rush and churn on Mayday and. 774 00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:29,000 If you can sell it, by God do no you. 775 00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:31,680 Can sell it. In country districts where 776 00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:36,560 neighbors give milk gratis while a neighbor has no I know gratis 777 00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:38,640 seems like every moderate gratis. 778 00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:43,080 Dude, it's free. It's Latin. 779 00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:45,480 I didn't think of it as Bin Laden. 780 00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:49,520 For some reason. While a neighbor has no milk 781 00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:52,840 awaiting the carving of a cow, they give this person on May Eve 782 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:56,240 sufficient milk for the next day so as to avoid giving it away 783 00:40:56,720 --> 00:41:01,360 mayday and losing it their luck. Everyone who happens to come 784 00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:04,600 into the house while a churn is going on should take a hand at 785 00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,480 the churn dash. This is supposedly to prevent 786 00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:09,760 people taking the butter. Don't take my. 787 00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:13,440 Butter when making a churn and people used to put a small coal 788 00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:17,000 of fire under the churn fire. By the way, I hear fire fire. 789 00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,080 This was supposed to prevent the fairies taking away the butter. 790 00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:24,160 I wonder if there's heat that just helps in the coagulating 791 00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:27,760 process. I know I think it should be a 792 00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:32,080 non hot zone but I think the idea is just that fire and iron 793 00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:33,920 are two things that the fairies never. 794 00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:37,240 But I wonder if there was some accidental sacred sauce. 795 00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:39,920 I think you could be in on something. 796 00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:43,120 Give me some of your secrets. Is it sick? 797 00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:44,360 And that was it. A. 798 00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:52,640 That was a. Look, we've been talking about 799 00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:56,440 potential neighbors, friends, enemies. 800 00:41:56,440 --> 00:42:01,200 Is my potential neighbor. Which is dragging spencils 801 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,840 through the land, stealing your Jew, which in turn is stealing 802 00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:06,800 your butter. But there's something else we 803 00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,240 discussed this before that hags could do. 804 00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,240 They could transform into a hair. 805 00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:17,920 Well, they could be a hairy woman, but they also could 806 00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:20,840 change into AD animal a hair. The animal. 807 00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:24,520 The animal. In some areas it was firmly 808 00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:28,440 believed that the hag worked in disguise, usually that of a hare 809 00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:32,680 sucking the teats of victims cow so that they would produce only 810 00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:35,880 creamless milk for the remainder of the year. 811 00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:38,800 Creamless milk? That's sad milk right there. 812 00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:45,520 So in this interesting account here, the Gaelic Irish believed 813 00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:48,960 that when a house was looked at through the shoulder blade or 814 00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:52,720 bone of a sheep and a spot or shadow appears in the middle of 815 00:42:52,720 --> 00:42:57,560 it, the owner of this house was a wicked woman and witch who 816 00:42:57,560 --> 00:42:59,280 would next summer. Filch. 817 00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:04,520 Away all their butter. That woman done filched away my 818 00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:12,200 butter. She does gave her their head. 819 00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:17,360 Filch my damn butter. You come round here filching my 820 00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:18,640 butter. She really? 821 00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:20,440 And you talk to me like that? Yeah. 822 00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:24,520 It took the kids from me. You insulted me. 823 00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:26,800 You walked out of me. You filched my butter. 824 00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:28,200 Hey. Yeah. 825 00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:29,880 Oh, that's it. Come back here. 826 00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:38,040 Tell me a story about the taking of butter by a woman who changed 827 00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:39,800 into a hair. I also. 828 00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:42,920 Have you heard this? One the people that are like, 829 00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:46,840 it's almost like that's not me, It's the hair woman stealing my 830 00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:49,160 butter. Yeah, that's not that I'm bad at 831 00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:50,160 shooting this. Man, no. 832 00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:53,240 And it's not because based on the incorrect temperature, 833 00:43:53,240 --> 00:43:55,240 environments are the feet of the cow. 834 00:43:55,240 --> 00:43:59,440 We'll get into that later. Look, look, the naysayers will 835 00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:00,240 say it. It's that. 836 00:44:00,240 --> 00:44:03,160 Damn. Woman, she comes into my house, 837 00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:06,320 she filters my milk, she sucks my cow's. 838 00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:07,360 Teeth. Butterfish. 839 00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:10,080 Butterfilter. That takes a chance of you, 840 00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:14,920 Filch. All right, we'll calm down. 841 00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:18,960 Calm down. The taking of butter by a woman 842 00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:23,360 who changed into a hair long ago. 843 00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:27,320 There was a servant boy from kill Organ hired in Truly Marcus 844 00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:31,720 OK by a farmer who from our first OK. 845 00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:34,920 And when he went there, he found out that there was another 846 00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:39,600 servant boy in the house. Hey, you're like me who had been 847 00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:42,880 there for a long time. The house was in Gary and who 848 00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:45,720 seemed to know everything about the house and the people who 849 00:44:45,720 --> 00:44:46,800 lived there. They were from. 850 00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:50,760 Gary. Well, that night both the 851 00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:54,480 servant boys slept in a settle bed in the kitchen and it 852 00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:57,440 happened to be May night, and the servant boy who was the 853 00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:00,600 longest in the house told the new servant boy that the 854 00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:04,320 mistress of the house used to get up every May night and roll 855 00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:07,640 herself in the feet water. Feet water. 856 00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:12,320 And run out the door in the form of a hair for the purpose of 857 00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:16,320 milking her neighbor's cows. So the new servant boy said he 858 00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:18,360 would watch her and see what she would do. 859 00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:22,840 As the clock struck 12, she ran down out of the room and rolled 860 00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:24,600 herself in the feet water. Feet. 861 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:31,840 Water, the door of the feet as well, went out the door in the 862 00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,520 form of a hair. Hair. 863 00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,760 The new servant boy jumped out of the bed and threw the feet 864 00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:39,640 water out the door. Feet water? 865 00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:41,960 What is this? Yeah, as she was not very far 866 00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:45,440 from the house, she had the door opening, and she ran back again 867 00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:48,360 and rolled herself in the ground where the feet water was thrown, 868 00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:50,680 and went into the house in her own shape. 869 00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:54,560 It was said that she had not enough of the feet water to wet 870 00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:58,400 herself and that her back and neck were covered with hair. 871 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,800 Oh baby, give me some of that feet water. 872 00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:07,240 It's mad, so that's quite cool. So it's literally any bit of the 873 00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:10,280 water that touches her. It's very animated vibes, kind 874 00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:11,760 of that. Like the we can reach the West. 875 00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:14,560 Cover herself, her back and stuff with the water. 876 00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:19,120 It was still hairy. This is a hairy woman and and 877 00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:20,400 man, there's a very interesting thing. 878 00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,680 For whatever reason, I don't know if it was always this way, 879 00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:28,000 but I think I've noticed a lot of the hair hag stories. 880 00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:33,640 There was a certain, I don't want to say propagandistic, but 881 00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:36,200 like this is like a clearly a well. 882 00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:40,240 Well, to a woman, very. Likely, yes, probably angry 883 00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:43,640 Protestant. There was an oftentimes a lot of 884 00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:46,360 the hair hack stories, for whatever reason, would have this 885 00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:50,560 sort of background sectarian element or whatever saying, oh, 886 00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:54,840 it was this, but maybe that's told as a kids story to then 887 00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:57,200 kind of evoke and they stole our feckin butter. 888 00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:01,400 She turns into a hair. She sucks me cows teeth filching 889 00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:04,640 me, milk filching me. Milk and me from Kerry. 890 00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:12,640 Of the Kingdom. That was collector Mary Brosnan, 891 00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:17,240 informant Patsy Moriarty, Honda boys, age 80, and he's from 892 00:47:17,240 --> 00:47:22,240 where they from Nakaderi. There we go. 893 00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:28,080 Can I tell you another story? Ah. 894 00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:31,080 Yeah. Will you hear it? 895 00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:32,800 This is a crazy one. Now. 896 00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:36,440 Back in the day man, it was customary to take a small 897 00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:40,920 portion of unsalted butter after making a churning and to stick 898 00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:43,640 it on a board which was fastened to the kitchen wall. 899 00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:46,880 The butter was left on the board until the mould appeared. 900 00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:51,240 This moulded butter was used for treating any kind of skin 901 00:47:51,240 --> 00:47:54,200 ailment such as cuts, scrapes, as well as preventing and 902 00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:56,680 killing infection. Did you know what they were 903 00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:57,440 using? Dude? 904 00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:03,080 They had discovered penicillin. Yo, what was that? 905 00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:04,320 Unsalted? But I didn't even. 906 00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:06,840 Know it. The mold grew from the butter. 907 00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:09,800 Penicillin is mold left, so it's a mold. 908 00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:11,520 Actually, that's how I want my cure. 909 00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,520 The shingles works then because it was unsalted butter in a can 910 00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:16,240 that the manner. But was it stinky or was it 911 00:48:16,240 --> 00:48:17,520 fresh? Did it left go mold? 912 00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:21,000 He dropped his blood in it, so maybe he uses that as a as a. 913 00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:23,720 Catalyst. No, that's different dude. 914 00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:27,520 That's blood magic. That's magic, that's different. 915 00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:30,960 I surely I'm just thinking now, maybe that was why it was good 916 00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:34,160 for me. But well, butter. 917 00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:36,160 Butter is used for skin elements. 918 00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:40,160 Back in the day, getting sort of a rash or a burn, you you'd use 919 00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:42,400 that. Call me toast, I called over 920 00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:45,520 meal. Anyway my new album comes out 921 00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:48,960 this week. She track one she fishing me 922 00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:52,480 milk back to Call me toast and butter meal. 923 00:48:53,240 --> 00:48:58,240 Track 3 butter actually a carry man. 924 00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:09,630 The three track trees, actually. They're all some these are fish 925 00:49:09,630 --> 00:49:13,630 yoga based on butter making or pitch rogues depending on where 926 00:49:13,630 --> 00:49:16,030 you are. Sometimes people find it nearly 927 00:49:16,030 --> 00:49:18,990 impossible to make butter. The only reason they give her 928 00:49:18,990 --> 00:49:23,910 their failure is the presence of someone of evil spirit, or more 929 00:49:23,910 --> 00:49:27,190 likely, the evil power of some persons. 930 00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:31,200 In order to counteract his evil influence, they simply tie a 931 00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:35,280 Sally rod around the churn, then turn it three or four times, and 932 00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:39,160 eventually the evil spirit or influence vanishes for good. 933 00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:43,800 This charm has also worked to bring back butter that has been 934 00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:51,760 stolen by evil influences. From time to time farmers, both 935 00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:56,200 rich and poor of loss of milk and loss of butter, and 936 00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:59,680 accordingly loss of money. What are saying? 937 00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:03,640 Things that one again. From time to time, farmers both 938 00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:08,240 rich and poor of loss of milk and loss of butter and 939 00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:12,520 accordingly loss of money. Wow, that's a What does that 940 00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:13,320 mean? That's a fucking. 941 00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:16,480 Christopher Nolan, the amount of depth in that sentence. 942 00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:18,640 I guess so. From time to time, both rich and 943 00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:21,040 poor people who have lost butter, lost butter. 944 00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:23,200 Obviously you lose money. If you lose money, you lose the 945 00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:24,280 money. Where's the money coming from? 946 00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:27,960 First you have the butter, then you have women, then you. 947 00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:30,480 Get the well first. You need the women of the money 948 00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:33,840 and they make the butter. And then you get the money. 949 00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:38,400 There you go. They attribute their losses to 950 00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:40,440 the evil people living near them. 951 00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:44,400 They find it rather difficult to take these people at work as it 952 00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:47,320 is done by means of charm. Do you don't see them at the 953 00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:50,440 work of stealing? No, as you pointed out, you you 954 00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:53,160 have to find the charm that. There's a charm at play. 955 00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:56,280 Here, however, all they have to do in these cases is to place 956 00:50:56,280 --> 00:51:00,600 the sock of a plow in the fire during Mass on Sunday and to 957 00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:04,600 leave it there until it's red. Then the evil charm is rendered 958 00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:08,680 useless to act. If a person helps a neighbors to 959 00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:11,960 milk the cows, that person should not leave the buyer 960 00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:14,400 without washing and drying his ham. 961 00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:18,520 Big thing if you take if you leave with even a bit of milk on 962 00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:21,400 your hands, you will take their ability to make. 963 00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:23,880 Butter. It sounds like a lab. 964 00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:27,920 I'd walk into your home while you're churning hard. 965 00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:31,320 It's 1155, you know you can't churn after midnight. 966 00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:33,320 Dude, You're churning hard. You're churning fast. 967 00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:34,760 You're singing your songs. Yeah. 968 00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:38,320 Come butter, come, come, butter. Come Peter. 969 00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,800 Waiting at the gate, waiting for a buttered cake. 970 00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:41,560 You're. Good. 971 00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:42,680 I remember that. I was just going. 972 00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:46,400 Around I would walk into your house and I would say God bless 973 00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:47,200 all. Here. 974 00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:52,440 The omission of the blessing is sometimes the cause of great 975 00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:57,400 anxiety to the neighbors. When you give milk away to 976 00:51:57,480 --> 00:52:02,160 anyone, no matter what quantity, be sure to drop a little salt 977 00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:06,640 into it before doing so. If the salt is not put into it, 978 00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:09,640 all the person who gets the milk has to do in order to steal 979 00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:14,160 yours is to skim the milk, and through some power or other he 980 00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:20,160 secures all yours. If you ever enter a house where 981 00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:24,240 a churn is being made, be sure to offer to turn it before you 982 00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:26,960 the part or the people will think you live here. 983 00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:31,240 To tie a red string on a cow's tail is regarded as the best 984 00:52:31,240 --> 00:52:33,440 possible protection against the evil people. 985 00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:36,480 Is also believed to be a cure for certain diseases. 986 00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:40,360 A liberal amount of salt should be sprinkled on a calf 987 00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:42,640 immediately after birth. Delicious. 988 00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:44,600 He's just out. Salt that boy up. 989 00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:49,840 Avoid carrying milk at night. It is unlucky and attracts evil 990 00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:51,680 spirits. I see you walking around here 991 00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:53,800 with milk at night. You're asking for it. 992 00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:57,960 Woe to the person who lends his churn to other people. 993 00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:02,680 So true priests are considered powerless to fight the milk and 994 00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:04,640 butter Steelers. You're powerless. 995 00:53:04,720 --> 00:53:06,280 I am a butter Steeler. Yeah. 996 00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:11,680 You have no power over me. Sorry, Father Colossus, your 997 00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:15,160 power is futile against me. We've got a parish priest story 998 00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:17,000 coming up and I want you to read it after this. 999 00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:20,200 But some people say that the milk stealing business 1000 00:53:20,240 --> 00:53:23,560 originated during the Black Famine, when food was scarce and 1001 00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:26,040 when people ventured out at night to milk their neighbors 1002 00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:29,280 cows in order to keep their family from starving. 1003 00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:33,920 Not interesting. That makes sense, informant me 1004 00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:37,880 Hollow Manning. What's wrong? 1005 00:53:38,720 --> 00:53:41,000 Why you said? He's there. 1006 00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:44,320 His address is Clunemore, County Kerry. 1007 00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:46,880 That's where you're from. I live there. 1008 00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:54,880 Sometimes a certain farmer in the Lichtenauer parish had no 1009 00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:57,000 liquid. Butter, my ears are burning no 1010 00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:59,040 matter what. He and his wife did. 1011 00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:02,400 Their efforts were in vain. Fraught was the result. 1012 00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:06,480 Instead of butter, he told APP of Lichtenauer about it. 1013 00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:10,800 The priest came to say mass. He told the farmer to bring in 1014 00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:14,480 the hair spancil made out of hair of the cow of a tail of a 1015 00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:18,640 the tail of a cow and to hang it on the crane while mass was in 1016 00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:21,200 progress. At a certain part of the mass 1017 00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:25,120 the priest came over and read over the spancil and for a long 1018 00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:27,760 time. When he finished, the spancil 1019 00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:30,120 bounded up the chimney like a Tumblr. 1020 00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:32,680 The butter was successful after that. 1021 00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:37,480 That was collected by Tom Daley, aged 55, out in Lake Schnar PP. 1022 00:54:37,720 --> 00:54:41,080 I love shortly the parish priest to PP. 1023 00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:44,960 Hey, get the PP over you. Know my granny, God rest her. 1024 00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:46,120 Soul, God rest her. Soul. 1025 00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:49,080 She had her own type of text speak. 1026 00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:51,520 Go on. Where like like, oh, I think 1027 00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:53,760 she'd have like TG for thank God and all those. 1028 00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:55,040 Tank. That's still one. 1029 00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:59,400 TGTG but she would just make up like ones if just like religion 1030 00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:07,680 need like going to pray the rosary obviously GPR TTYLT. 1031 00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:12,600 TM going to mass. Going to mass after that AM. 1032 00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:17,040 It's PM yeah post mass. Post mass, Post mass clarity, 1033 00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:18,360 I'll see. You in the PM? 1034 00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:22,200 I'll see you in the PM. See you in the PM. 1035 00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:28,320 That's funny dude. Do you want an evil eye story? 1036 00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:33,160 About 100 years ago, the people of Chum used to think that a 1037 00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:37,080 person with a bad eye could take away the butter from your cows. 1038 00:55:37,720 --> 00:55:39,680 Look at you boy, you have a bad eye in you that. 1039 00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:43,040 You take the butter from a cow. You die a new boy. 1040 00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:45,200 You'd filch the milk of a newborn baby. 1041 00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:50,600 There lived in Marley a woman who had a few cows. 1042 00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:52,960 When she turned her milk she could not get any butter. 1043 00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:56,760 There was an old man passing at the time, dressed in carical 1044 00:55:56,760 --> 00:56:00,800 clothes. We went into the house and took 1045 00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:04,120 the churn dash from the woman. She was very distressed and told 1046 00:56:04,120 --> 00:56:06,920 him that she'd been churning for a couple of hours and she still 1047 00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:10,600 had no butter. He began to churn, and soon the 1048 00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:13,640 churn was full of butter. He told her that he had the 1049 00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:18,680 butter, and from that on she had no churning, and from that on 1050 00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:23,120 she had no churning. All right, Bay Mangan. 1051 00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:26,320 She was 12, from Salt Hill. Look, we tried anyway. 1052 00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:31,080 Will you tell me a story about Tell me a story about Saint 1053 00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:34,680 Patrick and the bee stings? OK, she was a bee sting. 1054 00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:39,640 Mine is a bee sting, so. Do you know bee stings is 1055 00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:41,560 funnily is That's what we're about to talk about there. 1056 00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:44,000 Bee stings is the the colostrum of the milk. 1057 00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:46,160 Get into it. Oh yeah. 1058 00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:48,200 Stop talking about it and take me to dinner. 1059 00:56:49,720 --> 00:56:53,400 Long ago, the people used to tie a red rag on the cow's tail. 1060 00:56:53,400 --> 00:57:00,560 After Red rag, Red, red rag. When Saint Patrick was in 1061 00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:03,000 Ireland, he visited a house in Drum Kiri Not. 1062 00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:06,760 Losing her mind. No, I've never been more. 1063 00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:08,040 Clear in my whole. Life. 1064 00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:13,480 I have my trousers off. You don't lie. 1065 00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:17,480 Don't lie. From my angle I can't see. 1066 00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:19,720 Everyone knows. Everyone knows. 1067 00:57:21,240 --> 00:57:24,360 No one knows that I haven't had my shirt on since the beginning. 1068 00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:30,760 Oh no. When Saint Patrick was in 1069 00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:33,400 Ireland, he visited a house in Drum Kiri, not far from here. 1070 00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:36,920 The woman of the house had bee stings boiling in a pot. 1071 00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:39,960 Oh, delicious. He asked her for a cup of what 1072 00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:42,240 she had in the pot for he was hungry. 1073 00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:45,440 She refused him, so he kept walking. 1074 00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:49,000 Tonight came up to Derry Bryan and he went into another house 1075 00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:51,760 and the woman there gave him a cup of milk and some bread to 1076 00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:54,840 eat. From that day on the milk and 1077 00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:58,120 butter was plentiful and Dairy Brian and there was none in Drum 1078 00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:00,240 Kiri. It was taught he took the butter 1079 00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:02,400 from Drum Kiri and left us in Dairy. 1080 00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:04,640 Brian. Some lad Saint Patrick, eh? 1081 00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:07,000 That collector was Anna M Rabbit. 1082 00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:11,960 Definitely not a hair hag, and nicely not Anna M Walsh. 1083 00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:15,800 Eh, that's very fun. Weird that she was boiling bee 1084 00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:17,320 stings. Yeah. 1085 00:58:17,320 --> 00:58:20,040 Have you ever have you ever been involved in consuming bee 1086 00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:22,120 stings? I feel like there's an ethical 1087 00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:23,440 problem. It's not for you. 1088 00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:26,320 Is that what you're telling me? I know other people who are, 1089 00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:32,080 yes, in general, I know milk is for cow, cow, the old saying 1090 00:58:32,080 --> 00:58:33,600 goes. But now it's just that your 1091 00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:36,840 colostrum is very beneficial to the young calf. 1092 00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:39,840 That's where even in humans, that's and in every. 1093 00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:42,680 Animal breast milk the initially mammals work. 1094 00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:46,360 Initial breast milk particularly has a lot of antibodies in it. 1095 00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:48,840 It's essentially like a system update. 1096 00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:51,680 It is. It's like you're the information 1097 00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:54,360 from your MAMO is going to you Bobby. 1098 00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:57,280 And it only happened and that's your time and. 1099 00:58:57,280 --> 00:58:59,400 Instead you're there boiling it for custard. 1100 00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:03,120 Yeah. Michael, you know what the 1101 00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:05,200 secret to the best custard cream is? 1102 00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:07,520 Oh, is that it? The cream is gotten from the. 1103 00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:11,320 Classroom. If that's true, I've really. 1104 00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:14,600 You've eaten too many custard creams to go back now by oh. 1105 00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:19,120 Another thing is big. That's big. 1106 00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:21,880 Something that's big. Iron. 1107 00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:26,040 Iron and fire being used to stop these curses. 1108 00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:27,280 Stop the charms. I saw you. 1109 00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:29,920 You put a charm on my milk. You know what I'm going to do 1110 00:59:29,920 --> 00:59:32,440 about it. Flip you off the next time I see 1111 00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:34,520 you, Sorry. I'll tell you what I'm going to 1112 00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:37,600 do about it. In the parish of Iris Court, a 1113 00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:42,040 certain woman was able to supply all the shops with butter and I 1114 00:59:42,040 --> 00:59:45,120 don't need one cow. People said this woman had a 1115 00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:49,480 dead hand. This term meant she or some 1116 00:59:49,480 --> 00:59:53,760 member of her household dug up a dead hand from some grave. 1117 00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:58,440 And while this was in the house, the churn was always full and 1118 00:59:58,440 --> 01:00:02,320 the supply of butter very large in some instances. 1119 01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:07,440 In some instances. As in this parish, the priests 1120 01:00:07,440 --> 01:00:10,960 were beseeched to pray for people whose milk and butter was 1121 01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:15,120 being stolen from them, and who thus were reduced to a state of 1122 01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:17,440 poverty. Priests are the full time 1123 01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:20,040 begetting besieged. And and you know what we read 1124 01:00:20,040 --> 01:00:22,120 earlier? That the priests have no power 1125 01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:26,000 over the stolen milk. No, don't even go to your PP 1126 01:00:26,120 --> 01:00:29,280 Inc. Give me another. 1127 01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:31,640 Story. I'm the Lapina stalker. 1128 01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:38,400 Lapina Stalker give her a dough. A great deal of butter was made 1129 01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:41,640 on this farm, even though the cattle on it were few and people 1130 01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:44,880 often wondered. I wonder is all that matter? 1131 01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:50,760 No one ever saw the inside of their dairy but the family till 1132 01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:53,000 one day when they forgot to shut it. 1133 01:00:53,720 --> 01:00:56,400 George, did you lock the king door? 1134 01:00:57,200 --> 01:01:01,840 Close the bloody Jeffrey. close the. 1135 01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:05,360 They're going to find out a secret. 1136 01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:10,200 A farm worker entered it and saw hanging on the back of the door 1137 01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:12,840 a dead hand, which was called the Lapa. 1138 01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:15,920 The Lapa. When they wanted cream, they put 1139 01:01:15,920 --> 01:01:18,840 some milk in a basin and put the lapa in the milk. 1140 01:01:19,680 --> 01:01:23,280 The depth of the fingers of cream would come on top of the 1141 01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:26,640 milk, and thus they were able to produce quantities of butter 1142 01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:30,960 from a small stock of cattle. That was collected by Jack 1143 01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:33,760 McCarthy. He was a Carpenter from 40 1144 01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:38,680 County Cork. Dude, the dead hand or the hand 1145 01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:40,200 of? Glory. 1146 01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:44,680 I'm about to this every time I message you earlier in the week, 1147 01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:45,960 man. Because we don't see each other 1148 01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:48,080 as often as either of us would like, but we keep in 1149 01:01:48,080 --> 01:01:49,640 communication because. We're good friends. 1150 01:01:49,720 --> 01:01:56,960 We're certainly dude. And I told you that the Hand of 1151 01:01:56,960 --> 01:02:00,080 Glory is one of the few one of those things where anytime I 1152 01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:04,880 hear about it or read it, it makes me imagine the past as a 1153 01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:06,920 bizarro fantasy world. Dude. 1154 01:02:07,160 --> 01:02:11,160 This is definitely it's like some, what's it called, Crowley 1155 01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:14,080 sort of stuff, whatever that guy's name is, some black magic. 1156 01:02:14,360 --> 01:02:17,000 Yeah, oh, it's 100 like necromancy style. 1157 01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:21,120 So the Hand of Glory is essentially a severed hand from 1158 01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:24,720 a gibbeted, hanged or executed criminal. 1159 01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:29,800 The more notorious, the greater it's supposed potency. 1160 01:02:31,280 --> 01:02:34,640 This hand is dried in the sun after pickling and treatment 1161 01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:38,200 with various noxious chemicals and materials. 1162 01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:42,960 The hand was in enclosed around the candle, preferably made with 1163 01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:48,760 the fat of a hanged man. More hanged man or give me? 1164 01:02:48,800 --> 01:02:53,920 More the fingers were turned into macabre Wicks. 1165 01:02:54,240 --> 01:02:55,600 How do you say that word? Macabre. 1166 01:02:56,440 --> 01:02:59,160 Macabre Wicks. It was believed that this 1167 01:02:59,160 --> 01:03:03,040 gruesome brand would confer invisibility to its owner, 1168 01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:08,000 render the occupants of a household into a deep sleep and 1169 01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:11,520 open locked doors. But what did it also do, Luke? 1170 01:03:12,160 --> 01:03:15,240 It also perhaps the coolest of all the week. 1171 01:03:15,240 --> 01:03:17,160 One of these things is not like the other. 1172 01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:21,160 It will also help you make butter. 1173 01:03:21,200 --> 01:03:22,880 Yes. Great butter. 1174 01:03:22,880 --> 01:03:25,960 How would it do this? You used to stir. 1175 01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:28,600 She put the hand in that damn dear boy. 1176 01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:33,280 You get the. Man, they put it in the bar. 1177 01:03:33,400 --> 01:03:37,240 Their milk. The milk was churned using the 1178 01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:39,640 preserved hand but stirring the milk with it. 1179 01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:43,360 Some sources say it has to be done 8 to 9 times, then 1180 01:03:43,360 --> 01:03:46,800 accompanied by spells. Butter, butter, butter, butter, 1181 01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:50,000 butter, butter, butter, butter. Come on, come on. 1182 01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:54,240 That's my. Scum, butter, Come, come Peter, 1183 01:03:54,280 --> 01:03:56,680 waiting at the gate, waiting for his better cake. 1184 01:03:56,920 --> 01:03:59,560 Has anyone ever talked about just asking the milk nicely? 1185 01:04:00,600 --> 01:04:04,880 An account from County Longford tells us that the need to mix 1186 01:04:04,880 --> 01:04:08,880 some of your intended victim's milk with your own in order for 1187 01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:13,040 it to work OK. Oh, is this when you're stealing 1188 01:04:13,040 --> 01:04:14,400 it I assume? This is. 1189 01:04:15,040 --> 01:04:20,120 Look, it's all hearsay, but the magic of the butter is, the 1190 01:04:20,120 --> 01:04:24,240 magic of the hand is, however deep you stick it into the milk, 1191 01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:26,560 you get that much cream immediately. 1192 01:04:27,120 --> 01:04:29,000 So you want a boy with a big hand You. 1193 01:04:31,080 --> 01:04:33,760 Just want a deep vessel. But yeah, the bigger the hand, 1194 01:04:33,760 --> 01:04:36,240 the better. Look, there's a few rhymes and 1195 01:04:36,240 --> 01:04:39,000 chants that were often used to make the hand more effective. 1196 01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:42,040 And I saw you one day using your hand of glory. 1197 01:04:42,360 --> 01:04:44,560 So what do you think? Didn't think you were looking at 1198 01:04:44,600 --> 01:04:47,480 me. I thought I was alone, eh? 1199 01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:49,920 What do I sing? I sing, Aaron. 1200 01:04:50,160 --> 01:04:52,800 Let those who rest more deeply sleep. 1201 01:04:53,200 --> 01:04:55,080 Let those awake their vigils keep. 1202 01:04:55,840 --> 01:04:59,920 O hand of glory, shed thy light. Direct us to our spoil tonight. 1203 01:05:00,240 --> 01:05:04,160 Nice dude. The hand of glory guys, we're 1204 01:05:04,160 --> 01:05:06,640 not going to do it justice. Just Google that and look at the 1205 01:05:06,640 --> 01:05:11,840 Wikipedia and there's an image of a paper mache hand of glory 1206 01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:13,840 and it is one of the coolest things I've ever. 1207 01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:17,040 Seen they have a. There was an image as well of 1208 01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:20,200 they have some intact today. Yeah, there's some that they've, 1209 01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:22,280 some that they found, they find them like in random. 1210 01:05:22,280 --> 01:05:26,440 Place Do you think that rhyme is that for to make boys and girls 1211 01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:28,520 in the house sleepy? Yeah. 1212 01:05:28,600 --> 01:05:31,440 Or is it a butter rhyme too? No, it that's for the youth in 1213 01:05:31,440 --> 01:05:33,760 nefarious criminal use. Nefarious. 1214 01:05:35,600 --> 01:05:42,160 All right, jump around. Luke, we have a few random 1215 01:05:42,160 --> 01:05:46,440 stories to kind of read before we finish up this whole butter 1216 01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:49,560 or deal that's happening here. Let's spread them. 1217 01:05:49,560 --> 01:05:53,000 Y'all, I hear you all screaming. What about the bog butter? 1218 01:05:53,160 --> 01:05:56,720 Well, what about the bog butter? They found some butter in the 1219 01:05:56,720 --> 01:05:58,000 bog. Get over it. 1220 01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:00,640 Yeah, well, here's a story about it. 1221 01:06:01,360 --> 01:06:04,560 Here's a story about it. This is a story called Butter 1222 01:06:04,560 --> 01:06:08,520 Found in Clunog Bog a few years ago there was. 1223 01:06:08,600 --> 01:06:11,600 A man cutting turf in the above mentioned. 1224 01:06:11,600 --> 01:06:15,600 Bog and he found a little hamper of butter, but it must have been 1225 01:06:15,600 --> 01:06:18,560 there for a long time because no one in the village remembers the 1226 01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:21,320 time when people use put their butter in the bog. 1227 01:06:22,200 --> 01:06:24,880 They put the butter in the bog to keep it sweet and keep it 1228 01:06:24,880 --> 01:06:27,840 fresh. That's it. 1229 01:06:27,840 --> 01:06:29,640 Ladscapers 1. More do you need to know? 1230 01:06:30,960 --> 01:06:38,360 Bury her down. I throw in the bog so there's 1231 01:06:38,440 --> 01:06:39,400 nothing. More. 1232 01:06:39,600 --> 01:06:42,000 There's nothing more to it. Look, come at me another time. 1233 01:06:42,440 --> 01:06:46,800 Look, I like my butter on bread. I don't like my butter in the 1234 01:06:46,800 --> 01:06:49,920 bog read. Me an old story there. 1235 01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:54,920 Some years ago, William Chalk, or IP, was plowing in his garden 1236 01:06:55,160 --> 01:06:57,120 and the plow turned up a piece of butter. 1237 01:06:57,280 --> 01:07:01,080 Oh, this butter was buried in the garden by an old enemy for 1238 01:07:01,080 --> 01:07:04,880 the purpose of taking the good. Oh God. 1239 01:07:04,920 --> 01:07:08,240 Chalks Garden and transferring it to the Garden of the Bad 1240 01:07:08,240 --> 01:07:13,160 Neighbour, Collector Kochney Frahala Address, Duckstown, 1241 01:07:13,160 --> 01:07:17,920 County Limerick. Duckstown, can I read you the 1242 01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:19,520 story? I want you to get into this now. 1243 01:07:19,520 --> 01:07:25,080 Man, the tailor and the lumps of butter. 1244 01:07:25,240 --> 01:07:28,120 Shawn's mother was named John and his father was Paddy 1245 01:07:28,120 --> 01:07:31,720 Connors, nicknamed Paddy Daheen. John was of a retiring 1246 01:07:31,720 --> 01:07:35,400 disposition and always kept a special bed for the travelling 1247 01:07:35,400 --> 01:07:38,080 people, or the conic people as they were called. 1248 01:07:38,400 --> 01:07:41,560 In one corner of the kitchen, right across the road from 1249 01:07:41,560 --> 01:07:45,720 Daheen's house, a small farmer nicknamed Paddy not cared on 1250 01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:48,840 lived with his wife, two daughters and two sons. 1251 01:07:49,440 --> 01:07:52,360 One of the daughters was in Nano, the other Hannah. 1252 01:07:52,680 --> 01:07:57,680 Nano Hannah Hannah Nana, at the time a travelling tailor called 1253 01:07:57,680 --> 01:08:00,480 Teddy Mick. You spend a week or so on the 1254 01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:03,800 houses of the district mending, making and patching. 1255 01:08:04,840 --> 01:08:08,520 On one occasion during hay time he was working in Daheen's 1256 01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:12,960 house. At about 12:10 o'clock, Joan 1257 01:08:12,960 --> 01:08:16,080 began her churning operators, and she was about to. 1258 01:08:16,120 --> 01:08:22,640 Begin her butter baking. Hannah came in in a foster with 1259 01:08:22,640 --> 01:08:24,640 her tongues in her hands and said Wish her. 1260 01:08:24,640 --> 01:08:29,640 Joan gave us a few bits of seed as a fire ran out unknownst of 1261 01:08:29,640 --> 01:08:33,880 me just as reference here. They're calling the cold of the 1262 01:08:33,880 --> 01:08:35,439 fire, they're calling them seeds. 1263 01:08:36,279 --> 01:08:38,399 Beautiful. She took it, and when she had 1264 01:08:38,399 --> 01:08:42,359 gone out the tailor made for the fire and with the tongues took a 1265 01:08:42,359 --> 01:08:46,000 red coal of the fire and threw it into a bucket that was behind 1266 01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:49,399 the front door. No sooner had he returned to his 1267 01:08:49,399 --> 01:08:52,359 place at the table, then Hannah rushed in crying. 1268 01:08:53,680 --> 01:08:57,600 That's grand to me, John, But didn't the pig throw the tongues 1269 01:08:57,600 --> 01:09:01,359 out of my hand, and I go in. In the door she took more seed, 1270 01:09:01,960 --> 01:09:03,800 and the tailor did as he did before. 1271 01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:08,880 But 1/4 of an hour elapsed, and Hannah came in again crying. 1272 01:09:09,319 --> 01:09:13,760 Wish a bad luck on me for me, but my fire is not lighted yet 1273 01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:17,439 for want of more seed. But she went towards the fire 1274 01:09:17,640 --> 01:09:21,680 and took a great red sod before she reached the door. 1275 01:09:21,840 --> 01:09:25,200 The tailor rushed after her, seized the tongues, and threw 1276 01:09:25,200 --> 01:09:28,600 the coal into the bucket. Then he seized Hannah and gave 1277 01:09:28,600 --> 01:09:32,880 her a good kick out the door. Joan was very surprised at the 1278 01:09:32,880 --> 01:09:36,640 occurrence, and thought the tailor had taken lathe of his 1279 01:09:36,640 --> 01:09:39,840 senses. Wish a teddy, she said. 1280 01:09:40,479 --> 01:09:44,040 What in the world is coming over you, and what reason had you to 1281 01:09:44,040 --> 01:09:50,040 poor Hannah go behind the door, Jane said he and and look into 1282 01:09:50,040 --> 01:09:55,240 the bucket and you'll get my answer There she did, and saw 1283 01:09:55,240 --> 01:09:57,200 three lumps of butter in the bucket. 1284 01:09:58,080 --> 01:10:02,200 Terry told her take them out and wash them, and that Hannah came 1285 01:10:02,200 --> 01:10:06,800 for the seed to deprive Joan of her butter by the power of the 1286 01:10:06,800 --> 01:10:10,880 pitch Hawks, and that he had thwarted her by his actions. 1287 01:10:14,760 --> 01:10:20,240 Very interesting now. Collector Tasty DC cat. 1288 01:10:21,200 --> 01:10:25,160 Tomcat occupation A moon tour. A moon tour. 1289 01:10:25,680 --> 01:10:29,160 Luke, I think we're all but bothered out I've bothered you 1290 01:10:29,160 --> 01:10:31,720 up I've bothered you down I've bothered you. 1291 01:10:32,800 --> 01:10:34,920 We've talked in here for quite a while. 1292 01:10:34,920 --> 01:10:36,800 Our brains are turned into pure but. 1293 01:10:36,800 --> 01:10:39,880 And I think my I think my butter is just about done after all 1294 01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:46,000 that journey. Guys, I want to think of some 1295 01:10:46,000 --> 01:10:48,680 sort of puns. I hope you loved our spread of 1296 01:10:48,680 --> 01:10:50,560 buttery stories. I hope you did. 1297 01:10:51,840 --> 01:10:55,200 If you have any stories about bog butter, you think that we 1298 01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:57,960 missed out on that, we should have mentioned Challenge us. 1299 01:10:58,600 --> 01:11:00,560 Challenge us. Give me something interesting. 1300 01:11:00,800 --> 01:11:03,840 Try me. Entertain us if you have 1301 01:11:03,880 --> 01:11:09,800 anything folklore, weird Irish stuff related you want us to 1302 01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:12,680 discuss on the podcast or bring up in any capacity. 1303 01:11:12,840 --> 01:11:17,160 Wow me message on the Pitch Strokes podcast Instagram. 1304 01:11:17,160 --> 01:11:19,200 It's there. You can e-mail us if you want. 1305 01:11:19,200 --> 01:11:23,680 Pitchshrugspodcast@gmail.com. But look, we're only a few 1306 01:11:23,680 --> 01:11:26,280 finger taps away. We're so close to you you've no 1307 01:11:26,280 --> 01:11:28,080 idea. I can see you sometime. 1308 01:11:28,080 --> 01:11:29,800 And tell us, what do you like to put? 1309 01:11:31,160 --> 01:11:32,840 And. What do you like to put? 1310 01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:39,240 Can I finish us with one story? This is one about a man called 1311 01:11:39,240 --> 01:11:44,760 John Lyons. John Lyons, of Ballyhorg and 1312 01:11:44,760 --> 01:11:48,160 Lickshaw went one night torching up Gentleman's Avenue. 1313 01:11:48,840 --> 01:11:50,800 This place is supposed to be haunted. 1314 01:11:51,680 --> 01:11:55,240 John Lyons killed a few birds and was about to kill a trush 1315 01:11:55,840 --> 01:11:59,320 when the latter spoke Nabul, Nabul. 1316 01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:05,360 Simultaneously a cold hand slapped his face, and the torch 1317 01:12:05,360 --> 01:12:09,240 was flung from his hand. He was an invalid for three 1318 01:12:09,240 --> 01:12:13,320 months, was never in the better of the shock. 1319 01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:15,800 I really slapped my face. I see too. 1320 01:12:16,200 --> 01:12:19,200 I slapped myself guys. Good looking, good night, God 1321 01:12:19,200 --> 01:12:21,400 bless and good butter. Butter. 1322 01:12:21,560 --> 01:12:24,400 Butter unto you, butter unto me. I won't take your butter.