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What skin ailment drove the priest crazy?...


At a funeral the priest disrobes in the midst of a *beep* Did his skin break out from syphilis?

"Ready when you are, Mister DeMille."

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A few scenes before you see one of the girls pick some plants and then put it in the tumble dryer I think it was stinging nettles or something

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It was a reaction from whatever it was that Margaret had put in with his laundry in the dryer (you remember she crept away during the 'sports day' and picked some sort of greenery). That was what incriminated him re: Crispina as well, because where he'd rubbed against her she also had the rash.

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I assumed it was poison ivy.

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Poison ivy doesn't grow in Ireland. Best bet would be stinging nettles.



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Didn't Margaret know that Krispina was involved with the priest? Through the window it looked fairly obvious, but Margaret looked surprised when Krispina was 'revealed' when she started scratching herself.

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She knew that they'd had oral sex, but perhaps she still thought (due to a lifetime of social conditioning) that the priest would not go as far as actual intercourse.


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She did not, she was not sure who was giving the priest the BJ. She would have never put Krispina in a situation like that. She was only smart enough to find out by doing the last of his laundry.

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No she did know it was her, thats why she told her "he is not a man of God".







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It's stinging nettles. But since you boil nettles for stew (during the Famine in Ireland), I don't think the dryer would have worked. Anyway, I looked it up and it said no poison ivy or poison oak in Ireland. We have stinging nettles where I live in Texas and they're awful, but it's instant, the stinging sensation. Maybe the commentary on the DVD explains it.

Urushiol, the oil bearing a toxin in poison oak/ivy, gets into the skin and the reaction takes a while, probably 24 hours before the patches are really burning and swollen, as well as sore and itchy. A dryer might burn up the urushiol.

One time I had poison ivy/oak and my dog had raked my forearm with her claws or been chewing on me after chewing on the plants and since it was deeper, I had to go to the doctor and get prednisone tablets. They say the poison ivy/oak on your relatively dry, hard, keratinized outer layer only lasts three weeks, since that layer flakes off that fast, but it seems to last longer. The only good thing about it is the relief at being able to scratch it when it's in its last stage.


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Couldnt be stigning nettles they sting immediately, not after being handled and put in a washing machine. If you put them in water you can make soup out of them must have been smith else which would give this kind of delayed reaction.

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I thought it was poison ivy too, but in any case, the pervy priest got what he deserved! :-)

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I just watched the movie, I thought it was poison ivy too.

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