Gavan Reilly tweetz:
I guess the Botanic Gardens are becoming the Boo-tanic G-arrrrrgh!-dens today.
Sorry.
Meanwhile…
Helen O’Rahilly tweetz:
The Halloween ‘5 saucer’ game was a terryfying part of my 70s Irish childhood – the wedding ring, the soil, the cloth, the water, the coin. Modern version? – A pile of Pyrite, a Tracker mortgage cert, Jobpath entry form, Dublin rental agreement, Iona Institute membership. Scary!
Anyone?
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…James Joyce in his short story ‘Clay’ from Dubliners gives a great description of the five saucer game at Halloween…
Was the “victim” blindfolded, spun around and then had to dip their finger into a random saucer to foretell their future?
it’s all lies, I’m still waiting on the mountain of salt foretold
Until this day I never heard of the 5 saucers game! Admittedly, I never read much Joyce, either. I admit to starting Ulysses, but I never finished the first chapter before my ‘this guy is a pretentious git’ reflex kicked in.