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CAPPOCK ig i DOUBLE FRONTIER STAMPS ON PRESCRIPTIONS Thursday Morning, September 15, AVALANCHE-JOURNAL A-5 niRAL CLERGYMEN SORCERY PRACTICE ATTEMPT ED BY 1M)IVWI A LS Symbols Of Pishoguery Crop Up Around Irish Coastal Areas rw rn'i fhe practice which ill'll I'oun inidates hack thousands of years Kerry, where some, past the time when St. Patrick 1they see the publicly burned the written 'sln('' arc of the Druids, happenin'-' dead of night and people seem to he decent men are worried. in pishoguery around Aticient and symbols of here." said Canon p1 Irish sorcery and of I.istowel, are reappearing in some of my parishioners are lonely, coast areas of 1 hr Canon O'Sullivan said he had ic bleeding carcass of a found no evidence of am a dozen eggs widespread use of Ihe practice arranged in a circle a lump but there had been a few of iw bacon and nthor isolated incidents in his parish, warped reminders of a pagan have a few odd people past all show that evil is at around he said. Signs of Trouble Rural lergy Concerned in other areas in North city lulk may smile at Kerrv and across the Shannon the superstitions of Iheir in West Clare reports of queer country cousins, the clergy of practices have filtered out and rural Ireland know better. They the local clergy have sounded have taken to the pulpits to warnings.

beliefs and occult oi I'o the outsider 1he whole destroy by a glance the tossed onto his land and ith business may seem ratherishadow across the wheat field the carcass goes a curse that ''-s. A carcass is left in a tht can wither crops the misfortune will strike him." farmer's potato field or a dozen cows turned dry by a sign Older Persons Believe are hidden away in a One of the intriguing assets While the belief and fear of corner, or a lump of hairy in thp wholp businfss is tho pishooUery is dying among the ls shoved 1,10 qualifications necessary to younger generation in tanner practice as a veterinary remoter areas, it still has a Rut to the Kerryman these surRCon in thcsp grip on the older people, things mean trouble a serious loss of livestock an illness in ln to Superstitions and mumbo- the famih, a broken leu, a gun university degree a veterinary jumho that has iU.tddent needs a solid backgrounding in And the best of the thing is that it happens so often just as he feared extensive practice in Kvr" ptiwer 'be Kerry area think the It's not a subject they're at all amusing, willing to chat aboul to Superstitious Fear strangers, hut when they do the "Many people are simply superstitions of a thousand terrified by these symbols when years ago come tumbling into they find them on their land. I the 20th century. come up against it every other They tell of those with the day they don't teach you "evil eye" tht power to at the university how to treat an animal that just sickens for medical reason. farms to meet a person with i' t.s customary to give the ing a red hair first thing in the newly horn child a mixture of mav or not have mornim: means bad luck: holy-whisky and earth as a worked but if seems a splendid safeguard against the fairies The whisky, of course, stealing the baby and substitut- was Irish practices.

One such veterinarv commonplace its meaning are still on some small water is still sprinkled on the land to ward off evil spirits, while some farmers still keep their cows locked up for the first eight days of May, This reporter's research in the origins of pishoguery threw up one eminentlj sensible practice that appeals to have died Back in the days of yore NO INTEREST PLUS DISCOUNT SAVINGS a cow goes dry or is taken ill mam a farmer will search for a symbol first and call the vet later," he said. One 50-acre farmer near came across a cluster of eggs in one of his potato fields some months back he claimed the yield from his cows suddenly dropped by half. Jealousy Cited His neighbors reported similar finds. Each one suffered in one way or another a cow died or someone was taken ill unexpectedly. Many reasons arc given for the practice but jealousy of a neighbor prosperity is the most common.

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