They are said to be good a making up tales and excuses.
There is a tower at Castle Blarney in Ireland. There's a legend that if you lean out of a specific window and kiss the "Blarney Stone", you'll be blessed with the gift of gab and persuasion. Personally, it would take a LOT of persuasion with a lot of slick nonsense to convince me to lean out of a castle tower to kiss the Blarney Stone.
It is said that anyone who kisses the Blarney Stone will get the gift of the gab, ie become a good talker.
Kissing the Blarney Stone is said to give a person eloquence.The eloquence of the speeches reflected the experience of the delegates.
It is said that people should kiss the Blarney Stone on St. Patrick's Day. The stone is located at Blarney castle in Ireland. It is said that if you kiss it, you'll never again be lost for words.
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.
If one hangs upside-down and kisses the blarney stone they are endowed with the gift of the gab, the ability to talk well or flatter.
The BLARNEY stone is a famous stone in Ireland that is said to bring good luck to those who kiss it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blarney_Stone
The Blarney Stone
The Blarney Stone is a piece of large limestone that was built into the Blarney Castle in Ireland in 1446. Anyone who kisses the stone is said to be forever blessed with the gift of gab.
It is said you get the gift of the gab, where you talk alotAs legend has it, a person who kisses the Blarney Stone will have a gift of eloquence or a silver tongue bestowed upon them. This may explain why so many people over the past 200 years have taken a dangerous risk and lowered themselves head first in between a ledge to kiss a rock.
Blarney means to have the ability to coax, persuade, decieve, and flatter with soft speech without giving offense. She said this because of Dermot McCarthy always delaying when the Earl of Leicester talked to him about taking over Blarney Castle. Why she said 'Odds bodikins', I do not know. Maybe it was a popular term, or slang word, at that time. I think it might mean 'Oh my!' or 'Oh boloney'. I'm doing a report on the Blarney Stone. I hope this helped!
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.