The Daily News-Journal from Murfreesboro, Tennessee • 18

Page II, The Daily News Journal, Murfreesboro, Sunday Morning, Sopt. 4, 1966 Brief ening At Dead Happ Strange Things Of Night; And Won Bottle NETHERTON, England (LTD Eight-year-old Town bought a sixpenny (7 cent) winning ticket in a local sports club raffle and won a bottle of aspirins. Read Classified Ads Decent Worry ill Telephone Talk by HUCHEY KING Your Telephone Manager By DONAL O'HIGGINS I'nited Press International DUBLIN (UPD Down in County Kerry, where some 'folks claim they can see the' wind, strange things are happening at dead of night and decent men are worried. Ancient signs and symbols of pishoguery Irish sorcery and witchcraft are reappearing in lonely, coastal areas of the county. The bleeding carcass of a sheep a dozen eggs arranged in a circle a lump of, raw bacon and other warped reminders of a pagan past all show that evil is at work.

While city folk may smile at We Are Sti 1 1 7 2 YOUNGSTER Steven Barrett is the son of Mrs. Shirley Barrett, 1022 Ordway St. Grandparents: Mrs. Lawrence Travis, 1022 Ordway Mr. and Mrs.

H. P. Barrett, Walter Hill. Delbridge Photo FOOTBALL SEASON IS HERE We Should All Go Out and Support Our Boys On The Football Field Every Week During the Season. the superstitions of their country cousins, the clergy of rural Ireland know better.

They have taken to the pulpits to denounce the practice which dates back thousands of years past the time when SU Patrick publicly burned the written incantations of the Druids. "Some people seem to be indulging in pishoguery around here," said Canon Peter CSullivan of Listowel, some of my parishioners 'are disturbed." Canon CSullivan said he had found no evidence' of any widespread use of the practice but there had been a few isolated incidents in his parish. "We have a few odd people Financing Per Hundred Per Annum The State LEE By I'nited Press International TORONTO John Hogue t. Toronto, who was watching the ''Blue Angels" performance through binoculars when It, Cm dr. Dick Oliver crashed to his death in Lake Ontario: "The poor guy didn't have a chance." EVER VISITED THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT? Or seen a picture of it? Then you know how tall it isf Well, try to picture making 113 round trips up and down the.

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Like People around here," be said. "But in other areas in North Kerry and across the Shannon in West Clare reports of queer practices have filtered out and the local clergy have sounded warnings. Signs of Trouble To the outsider the whole business may seem rather pointless. A carcass is left in a farmer's potato field or a dozen eggs are hidden away in a corner, or a lump of hairy bacon is shoved into the farmer's hay. But to the Kerryman these things mean trouble a serious loss of livestock, an illness in the family, a broken leg, a gun accident.

And the- best of the thing is that it happens so often just as he feared. It's not a subject they're willing to chat about to strangers, but when they do the superstitions of a thousand years ago come tumbling into the 20th century; They tell of those with the "evil eye" the power to destroy by a glance the shadow across the wheat field tht can wither crops cows turned dry by a sign. One of the intriguing aspects in the business is the qualifications necessary to practice as a veterinary surgeon in these areas. In addition to the normal university degree a veterinary needs a solid backgrounding in ancient beliefs and occult practices. One such veterinary with an extensive practice in the Kerry area didn't think the subject at all amusing.

Superstitious Fear Symbols "Many people are simply terrified by these symbols when they find them on their land. I come up against it every other day and they don't teach you an animal that just sickens for no medical reason. "If a cow goes dry or is taken ill many a farmer will search for a symbol first and call the vet later," he said. One 50-acre farmer near Listowel 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. His neighbors reported Similar finds.

Each one suffered in one way or another a cow died or someone was taken ill unexpectedly. Many reasons are given for the practice but jealousy of a neighbor's prosperity is the most common. "The prosperity of one farmer rankles with another," said the veterinary "surgeon, in the dead of night a bleeding carcass of a sheep is tossed onto his land and with the carcass goes a curse that misfortune will strike Persons Believe While the belief and fear of pishoguery is dying among the younger generation in Ireland's remoter areas, it still has a grip on the older people. Superstitions and mumbo-jumbo that has lost all its NEW CARS At original meaning are still commonplace on small -farms to meet a person with red hair first thing in the morning means bad luck; holy 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 eminently sensible practice that appears to have died.

Back in the days of yore it was customary to give the newly born child a mixture of whisky and earth as a safeguard against the fairies stealing the baby and substituting a "changeling." It may or may not have worked but it seems a splendid idea. The whisky, of course, was Irish. DJ's Drunk On The Air, Point Well Made CHARLESTON, W.Va. (UPI) It was a good cause that two local radio personalities got reeling drunk on the air Friday night. News director Roger Galloway was drinking rum.

Disc jockey Mike' Hammer stayed, with vodka. The program opened with the sound of liquid pouring, -the link of glasses and an "ah." After downing 12 ounces of vodka, Hammer was described as close to passing out. That is the fifth stage of drunkenness. The sixth is death. But the program went on.

Hammer chattered and played records. Galloway read the news. As" the program over WCAW continued both began slurring words. One switched a commercial into the middle of the other's speech. Neither could say "around the rugged rock the rascal ran." In the studio audience were two state troopers, city policemen, the director of the alcohol division of the State Mental Health Department and an assistant state attorney general.

After only two drinks Galloway and Hammer showed a depth perception loss sufficient to cause a traffic accident. Hammer misjudged a distance by two feet; Galloway was off by three. A policeman went on the air: "Would you want one of these two to take the road after their tour of duty as they normally do? Many drivers in worse shape will." Having made their point about drinking and driving, Hammer and Gallowa" headd home for the Labor Day weekend driven by someone else. Read And Use Classified Ads Back-To-School BARGAIN ning a housewife can save In a year if she has extension telephones Tn handy' places around the Why not have convenient extension phones installed in YOUR home? Unless, of course, you just happen to WANT to climb the Washington" Monument 113 times a year! WE RECENTLY READ lowest Rate In See JACK TINY TOT Keith Blair is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

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