{"id":1266,"date":"2016-01-17T12:34:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T12:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2016-01-17T12:34:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T12:34:02","slug":"taibhse-the-puca-and-other-spirits-the-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/taibhse-the-puca-and-other-spirits-the-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Taibhse, the P\u00faca and Other Spirits, The (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Taibhse, the P\u00faca and Other Spirits, The (1)<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1266-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/taibhse-the-puca-and-other-spirits-the-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/taibhse-the-puca-and-other-spirits-the-1.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/taibhse-the-puca-and-other-spirits-the-1.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/taibhse-the-puca-and-other-spirits-the-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<div class=\"dmeite\">\n<p><span id=\"neasc-nocht-ceilth\" class=\"nmeite\">view \/ hide recording details [+\/-]<\/span><\/p>\n<ul id=\"clarMeiteashonrai\" class=\"meiteashonrai\">\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teideal <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Title)<\/span>:<\/span> Taibhse, the P\u00faca and Other Spirits, The (1).<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 840121.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chnuasach Bh\u00e9aloideas \u00c9ireann <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(National Folklore of Ireland Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Roud <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Roud Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Laws <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Laws Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Child <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Child Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Cnuasach <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Collection)<\/span>:<\/span> Joe Heaney Collection, University of Washington, Seattle.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teanga na Cro\u00edmh\u00edre <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Core-Item Language)<\/span>:<\/span> English.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Catag\u00f3ir <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Category)<\/span>:<\/span> lore.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a thug <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Informant)<\/span>:<\/span> Joe Heaney.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a th\u00f3g <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Collector)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 31\/01\/1984.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Su\u00edomh an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Location)<\/span>:<\/span> University of Washington, United States of America.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Oc\u00e1id an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Occasion)<\/span>:<\/span> evening class.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Daoine eile a bh\u00ed i l\u00e1thair <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Others present)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">St\u00e1das ch\u00f3ipcheart an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording copyright status)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Joe describes the <i class=\"cor-cainte-teangan-eile\">taibhse<\/i> as a faceless person with two balls of fire coming out of his mouth, and two balls of fire coming out of his ears. The only way he can be killed is with a black-handled knife<sup class=\"tagairt-n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1<\/sup>, which cannot be withdrawn once you&#8217;ve stabbed him, or you&#8217;ll never be able to kill him again.<\/p>\n<p>The <i class=\"cor-cainte-teangan-eile\">p\u00faca<\/i> is a &#8216;quare fellow&#8217; who is out to destroy anything you do. He wants to attack your cattle or ruin your crops. He can take any form &mdash; a chair, even a cup of tea. To combat his efforts, people put cinders from the fire into the crops at certain times of year &mdash; at the end of June and at Hallowe&#8217;en &mdash; to protect them from the <i class=\"cor-cainte-teangan-eile\">p\u00faca<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Also at Hallowe&#8217;en, children take a cabbage or a turnip from a neighbour&#8217;s field &mdash; not from their own &mdash; and throw them against the doors of their neighbours to remind them that the p\u00faca is about and they should take measures against him. The <i class=\"cor-cainte-teangan-eile\">p\u00faca<\/i> is also associated with the Death Coach, another hazard likely to manifest itself on Hallowe&#8217;en.<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p class=\"n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1. For a story and song featuring the use of a black-handled knife, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/children-stolen-by-fairies-and-thainig-bean-cois-leasa\/\">Children Stolen by Fairies and Th\u00e1inig Bean Cois Leasa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">2. To this day, the midsummer festival of Saint John&#8217;s Eve, on the 23rd of June, is an occasion for bonfires in many parts of Ireland &mdash; not least in the west. The original editor of these archives recalled visiting a lady in Conamara on that date in 1977 or &#8217;78. She had a small fire lit in front of her house and was walking in a circle round the fire with her rosary beads in her hand, saying some prayers. Subsequently, she took some of the embers of the fire back into the house, where she used them to kindle the fire. She also rubbed soot from the fire above the doorway to the <i class=\"cor-cainte-teangan-eile\">sciob\u00f3l<\/i> (shed; in this case a cowshed) as protection for her cows.<\/p>\n<p>Elements of fairy lore appear in a number of other items in Joe&#8217;s repertoire.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seanchas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}