Cúchulainn comes upon three crones, all blind in the left eye. They are cooking something on a rowan-tree spit over a fire; it is the carcass of a dog. As the crones also have poisons and spells, Cúchulainn is wary, much more because the eating of dog meat is a violation of a geis, incumbent upon him because of his name, ‘hound of Culann’. But he cannot simply withdraw because he would violate another geis if he visited any cooking hearth and did not accept food offered to him.