HeyJaredPisrógs
Pisrogs podcast is an audio adventure of Irish myth, folklore, history and more. The podcast started with hosts Luke Conroy and Aran Reidy trawling through the Duchás Folklore Archives for the most spell-binding, peculiar, imaginative and funny Irish folk stories they could…
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Electric Picnic (opens the original)
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The Slasher House, Banshees, Count Tornado, Highkick Jack, The IRA, Headless Horseman and Cures upon Cures upon Cures. The boys set up a confessional booth at Electric Picnic and ye blurted out your best folk stories from all around the country!
Hungry Grass (Féar Gortach) (opens the original)
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You walk on an ordinary patch of grass and suddenly become so violently hungry that you can barely make it home. The Hungry Grass, or Féar Gortach, cursed patches of ground said to bring on an overwhelming, almost fatal hunger, sometimes only moments after a person has eaten. A single crumb of bread could save you… but in some tales, people were reduced to chewing boot laces, raw meat, or whatever they could find. And the stories get stranger. We encounter hungry grass growing over graves, fairy
The Blacksmith's Forge (opens the original)
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If you went back in time to an Irish village or settlement the first place you should go was surprisingly, the forge. The village forge was the ancient internet, the pub, the pharmacy, and occasionally the battlefield briefing room. It's where you would get the weekly news. The blacksmith dealt in Iron, Information and Anvils, but also Fairies, Cures and Curses. Cathal and Luke tell tales of fairy warfare, three-legged horses, magical purses, enchanted forge water and Holy Women's curses. The bl
Priest Hunters (opens the original)
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PRIEST HUNTERS, during Ireland's Penal Laws these were bounty hunters paid to track down Catholic priests, going from village to village looking for the rewards offered for their holy heads. Haunted houses, swarms of black beetles, priests disguised as gardeners, bloodhounds chasing clergy across the countryside, highwaymen turned heroes, and assassinations which quite literally backfire. Whilst Mass Rocks (where people worshipped in secret) are widely discussed, Cathal and Luke wanted to know m
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