Child Of Prague

Sid_Justice

Just wondering if many people have Child of Prague statues or paintings in their homes or know anyone that do. My granny used to have one and I see them in the chipper all the time.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Well this used to be my grannies house so there's a few knocking around but they're all in presses or in a shed.
Except one really cool bronze statye of mary sitting on the mirror in the sitting room

alwaysadub

My mam has one in my bedroom for some reason!

She puts it outside upside down for weddings so the weather'll be nice..

tempura

Sid_Justice wrote: »

Just wondering if many people have Child of Prague statues or paintings in their homes or know anyone that do. My granny used to have one and I see them in the chipper all the time.

Child of Prague has something to do with bringing on the good weather i think !

Theres a facebook page called ireland deserves sun which will send you a free child of prague ( a magnetic one ) , t-shirt and beach towel, i signed up last year and got all three, was delighted with meself ! Some paint company are behind the whole thing.

Its a kinda collective thinking thing, ya know, if we all have a child of prague, we'll get a good summer.

Excellent advertising idea !

I've nothing to do with the company btw.

Sofiztikated

Sid_Justice wrote: »

Just wondering if many people have Child of Prague statues or paintings in their homes or know anyone that do. My granny used to have one and I see them in the chipper all the time.

The what? Seriously, I have to google this, I have no idea what your talking about.

peanuthead

alwaysadub wrote: »

My mam has one in my bedroom for some reason!

She puts it outside upside down for weddings so the weather'll be nice..

tell her to keep it there all summer, will ya?

Ostrom

Flashback to primary school and getting 50 lines of 'i must not make fun of the infant of prague'. Cant remember what i said

skelliser

i have one in my room and have also visited said church in prague.
Its a strange site indeed. A little doll dressed up in fancy coats and stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_Jesus_of_Prague

Im not in anyway religious btw

sponsoredwalk

oh my god...

Them little dolls had meaning behind them all this time, meaning in the form of the rankest superstition...

Every home had a statue of the Child of Prague. But in our house its duties were different. That little figurine was our investment bank. My mother always kept a ha’penny wrapped in brown paper tucked tidily underneath. Even through a child’s eyes this seemed strange behaviour. When I asked her why she did it she told me that the Holy Child would see that ‘the house was never without money’. Her mother did it before her and the old people believed it.

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Devotion to the Child of Prague and belief in its power to influence the weather is still strong in many parts of Ireland. A wedding gift of a statue of the Child of Prague is particularly auspicious. The practise of putting it out in the hedge, or burying it in the garden, as a solicitation for good weather is, even in this age of unbelief, widespread in areas as far apart as Cork, Dublin, Sligo and Leitrim. Some believe that, 'it'll not bring you right luck till the head falls off it,' but the decapitation must happen by accident.
http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/ACustom/InfantPrague.html

I would have no problem 'accidentally' decapitating these dolls (for a fee) for any of you boardsies who wish the rain god a hasty approach

admiralofthefleet

i broke the head off one and pissed down its neck

kieran26

i'll definitely be seeing the child of prague tonight after last nites session!
hopefully he'll defend me from the gremlins

yerayeah

I've seen the actual child of Prague, as in the statue in some church in Prague, called into it on the way up to Prague castle last year. Don't know if I've ever seen child's of Prague (Children of Prague??) in anybodies house though!

BBDBB

my aunt was given a Child of Prague statue when she was struggling to sell her house

she put it in the window and the next viewer became her buyer



coincidence or the Lord moving in mysterious ways??? no idea, but the estate agent didnt give the statue a cut of the fee

storm2811

I had no idea what this was till i googled it,I've seen em before but always thought they were some little angel thing that you put on top of the xmas tree..although I've never seen one on an xmas tree...:pac:

Spanish Eyes

Ah yes I remember this kid well....

In our house this statue was called the "Child a Prayg" never Praaag.

He got good weather for a wedding, and a hapenny underneath kept poverty at bay.

Great tradition.

up for anything

If you leave one outside the house the night before your wedding it is supposed to ensure good weather. Although there is a school of thought which says that the head has to fall off during the night*. I think this is because the factory that churns them out makes them so crappily. It is very rare to sight an Infant of Prague statue which has got the head glued back on or propped on.









I'm not sure if it's the father of the bride's job to creep out in the dark of the night and play the axeman.

Owen

My aunt - a nun - had a 2 foot tall statue of Mary which glowed in the dark. She stood it next to the child of prague, and when we visited the farm as kids it would freak the fcuk out of us when the lights went off. An eerie green glowing Mary, and the green light reflecting on the creepy face of the child.

goat2

tempura wrote: »

Child of Prague has something to do with bringing on the good weather i think !

Theres a facebook page called ireland deserves sun which will send you a free child of prague ( a magnetic one ) , t-shirt and beach towel, i signed up last year and got all three, was delighted with meself ! Some paint company are behind the whole thing.

Its a kinda collective thinking thing, ya know, if we all have a child of prague, we'll get a good summer.

Excellent advertising idea !

I've nothing to do with the company btw.

i have always had one, dont know who gave it to me, but i knocked the head off by accident when i was moving furniture, and it is years on a quiet windowsill, with the head by its side, the poor thing looks rough from being around yrs

Sofiztikated

Is there any more reason why one of these yokes would bring good weather than a troll doll?

kylith

My mother has one. I've never heard that it brings good weather, she said it was for fertility and since she had a rake of kids it seems to have worked grand for her.

I heard it was St. Joseph you needed to sell your house.

PeterIanStaker

I think you'll need a lot more than St Joseph to sell your house!

why hasn't anyone said yet that their CoP danced around the mantlepiece

goat2

PeterIanStaker wrote: »

I think you'll need a lot more than St Joseph to sell your house!

why hasn't anyone said yet that their CoP danced around the mantlepiece

yes mine did, then again i am not joe coleman

Dick Turnip

goat2 wrote: »

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yes mine did, then again i am not joe coleman

or Christy Moore??

Hasmunch

Dick Turnip wrote: »

or Christy Moore??

Goodbye to the port and brandy, the vodka and the stag,
the guinness and the harp, the bottle, draught and keg.:D

Truley

Yep we had one of those, creepy little thing he was. Also had statues of Jesus, Mary, a picture of Pope John Paul and a statue of St Martain.

Hank_Jones

I have no idea what a Child of Prague statue is, thankfully.

Try to distance myself as much from anything religious.
Don't like anything religious in my house.

Owen

My Aunt, a Nun, had a glow in the dark nearly 2 foot tall Mary in the spare room we slept in as kids on our old farm. Scared the ****e out of all of us having a green eerie glow in the corner.

starbelgrade

nafianna2011 wrote: »

It is indeed St. Joseph Statue that helps you sell your house. You can get them on www.irelandsaints.com

These days, it's more likely the courts that'll help you sell your house.

Or NAMA if you own loads of them.

Johro

Sid_Justice wrote: »

Just wondering if many people have Child of Prague statues or paintings in their homes or know anyone that do. My granny used to have one and I see them in the chipper all the time.

The battered ones are lovely.

StupidLikeAFox

Hasmunch wrote: »

Goodbye to the port and brandy, the vodka and the stag,
the guinness and the harp, the bottle, draught and keg.:D

The swithwick and harpic i thought?

pragmatic1

My Granny had one and other religious idols. We're a bunch of pagans.

indough

just when you thought the world couldnt get any creepier

humanji

I had to google this to find out what it was and got this:

http://media.nowpublic.net/images//e2/4/e24bd8292df5b06ac5412006625895e4.jpg

People honestly hang him upside down, outside to get good weather? I can't imagine he's best pleased.