About Blarney Stone and the stone kiss
publicat in: General // Publicata pe 31.05.2023
Blarney Stone teaches you to speak
This is a stone that famous for conveying the skill of eloquence and the ability to flatter your audience. And all you need to do is kiss it, on the cold wall of Blarney's Irish castle, its residence since 1446.
The countless legends swirling around the limestone rock recall Cormac MacCarthy, the castle's builder, winning a lawsuit after kissing the stone, the first beneficiary of its services. The legend says that Elizabeth I herself, in order to secure the loyalty of the Irish, sent an emissary to the MacCarthy clan, who was received with kind words and good promises, but later all proved unsubstantiated by facts. The reality was different, so the term 'blarney' ended up in dictionaries.
The eloquence skill, brought by the stone to the one who kisses it, was not obtained anyway, but has presented serious risks over time. In the beginning, the kissing was done by hanging the new Cicero from a parapet at the top of the castle, with the future Cicero's support at ankle level. Later, stable supports appeared, reducing the risks and allowing the legend to be maintained, promising the timid gullible that kissing the old limestone boulder would loosen their tongues in a cavalcade of appropriate words.