The Blarney stone is a piece of folk lore and myth situated at the top of the Blarney Castle.
To complete the ritual, you have to climb to the top of the castle and lean backward over the parapet.
These days there are hand holds and safety devices, but in the "old days" you did this with a trusted friend holding your legs.
You must kiss the stone in this precarious position, for which you are granted the gift of eloquence and persuasion.
If someone says you must have kissed the Blarney Stone as a turn of phase, they are saying you have the "gift of gab" and/or the ability to flatter.
The Blarney Stone is a stone set in the wall of the Blarney Castle tower in the Irish village of Blarney. Kissing the Blarney Stone is supposed to bring the kisser the gift of persuasive eloquence (blarney).
by kissing the Blarney stone, at Blarney Castle near Cork City
They say that kissing the Blarney Stone will give you the gift of eloquence...or the gift of gab!
Nothing is cured by kissing the Blarney Stone. However, if one does kiss the stone, they will be gifted with "blarney" or the ability to flatter and persuade people to get their own way, without having offended anyone.
There would be no particular clothes to wear. You can wear what you want. It would depend on the weather and time of year a lot more than the fact you were kissing the Blarney Stone.
According to legend, kissing the Blarney Stone endows the kisser with the gift of gab (great Eloquenceor skill at Flattery).
Kissing the Blarney stone is supposed to bestow on the kisser the 'gift of the gab,' the ability to talk lots about anything and nothing.
Not to kiss the stone, but you might want to buy a photograph of you doing it. Kissing the stone is hard work , by the way. You need to be fit.
Paige Evans and chelcee starkie did and they received a tenner
No, it is considered to be bestowed by kissing the Blarney Stone.
The Blarney Stone - just outside the city of Cork lies Blarney castle. Under the battlements a stone is set which is said to be the stone on which the biblical figure Jacob laid his head and had a dream depicting the stairs to heaven. Kissing the stone is said to give you the "gift of the gab", meaning you will talk a lot.
The tradition of kissing the Blarney Stone is said to have been started by a seventeenth-century Irish lord named Cormac McCarthy, who believed that kissing the stone would bestow the gift of eloquent speech and persuasive language upon those who did so.