Supernatural Butter Stealing by The Dead Hand, Ireland 1970
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- How the hand of a dead person was used in the making of butter.
In Irish folklore, a piseog is a superstitious belief or practice, or it can mean a charm or spell. Farmer, folklorist and raconteur Joe Flanagan from Lough Cutra, Gort in County Galway knows several piseogs for ways to steal butter. He thinks the most successful method is through an lámh marbh or the dead hand, used in conjunction with an incantation.
There was special words that had to be said by the maker of the butter and he or she used the hand.
The dead hand was procured at a wake. Those wanting to steal butter would amputate one of the corpse’s arms, wrap it up in paper and bring it home. The dead hand was then preserved or embalmed with chimney soot.
The hand was valuable to these people, very valuable.
When the time came to steal butter, they would stir the cream in their own butter churn with the dead hand. When the incantation was uttered their butter supply would be vastly enriched at the expanse of another person’s churning.
Hundred percent they had it all taken.
Joe Flanangan does not know the words that were used in this charm, but when used with the dead hand they were extremely important words.
This edition of ‘Newsbeat’ was broadcast on 8 April 1970. The reporter is Cathal O’Shannon.
I have no idea what just happened. Thank you for sharing that.
This story is recorded almost exactly as this man tells it in the Yeats collection of Irish Folklore. A hand would be severed from a freshly buried body and passed over the buttermilk as an incantation was said.
The reason I mention this is because I'm wondering whether it's a case of an authentic story being collected, or if it's a case of an embellished or invented literary tale entering the repertoire of storytellers, being presented as an authentic one.
Seems like he's ad-libing, or trying to find his words, but thats how i speak when I'm pissed to be fair so I'm not sure 😅
If you check the national school folklore collection online there are numerous varying sources mentioning dead hands being used to increase the yield of butter along side various other superstitions regarding butter and butter churning, I found this when I was researching my own family history in South Leitrim.
@@razortube101 Dead hands and butter to the kids in school ? Oh my god I had alot to be scared of in a Catholic school but thank god it didn't include a dead hand and butter... too much 🤣
@@Janet4021 In the 30s children all over the country were asked to collect folk stories from older folk in the community ,some of the stories collected referenced dead hands amongst other folk stories,historical and traditional, its a very interesting you can find the entire collection transcribed at duchas ie
@@razortube101 Ok thanks, I wasn't being sarcastic I do find it all interesting it's just my Grandad from Sligo told alot of tales and fables but the dead hand and butter is ludicrous
I hope the surplus/supplmented EEC butter from yesterday's video, didn't have the Dead Hand used in its making. Maybe, the Dead Hand was the secret ingredient, that created the surplus, in the first place.
The man talking is Joe Flanagan 1912-1976
He talked like a true gentleman 👏 to all who's gone we remember at this time of year x
That doesn't make a lick of sense, but as a blood curdling tale told in a smoky lounge over a pint and a whiskey, it would hardly raise an eyebrow.
My father could never wear a watch as it would stop working. He used to say it was because he had a dead hand.
That's hilarious! I never heard of someone stopping watches like that though hah! Must just be "lucky" I guess.
Ah 1970 ,the year when L.S.D hit Ireland
Also proved a useful addition in poker games; allowing the option of throwing in your hand while remaining in the game
Perhaps someone would be so kind as to include closed captioning for those of us who speak American English and can barely make out a word or two of what he is saying?
Anyone have the numbers of Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson - I have a film idea right up their street.
Is this what people mean when they tell you to take it handy?
"God bless us and save us" ...and "Dia Dhuit"...are entering the world of lost words never to be heard of again as this world becomes more and more materialistic
yip. Like them Cowheard boys and Indians. ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
That’s exactly what I took from it! It’s the energetic symbolism for entropy as we fell in density
@@kellyryanobrien1 huh
It's all butter in many of these videos .
Butther/ dairy was an absolute staple of the Irish diet for millennia.
Once they brought back potatoes from Central/ South America in the 16th century to Europe, potatoes, butther and (if you didn't havepigs to fatten) butthermilk would be 90% the Irish diet for the subsequent half-millenia.
@@robertmoray988 Both of my grandmothers lived on butther and fat. "Are you going to eat that fat?" was one of my father's mother's most common queries!
The descendents of ancient nomadic pastoralists, without a doubt: the Irish gypsy Travellers, the last of those nomads, get their traditions from.
I believe this is an allegory for the fall of man
And I though making butter was a simple process
Methinks he rubbed his hair with a buttery hand))
Any other Irish Americans Keep butter in the cupboard
Man, we were barbarians, weren't we?
It's a story you'd expect to hear from a tribe on a remote island.
Wait, we're an island........
4 minutes and I hardly understood a thing that was said... despite still understanding only about 90% of the words used. The accent, the context, and the wide range of verbal rambling left me nothing but befuddled after watching.
Try less watching and more listening perhaps. And make less longwinded comments.
the poitín be creating some mighty yarns 😆