Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The caoineag (Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈkʰɯːɲak]) is a female spirit in Scottish folklore and a type of Highland banshee, her name meaning "weeper".She is normally invisible and foretells death in her clan by lamenting in the night at a waterfall, stream or Loch, or in a glen or on a mountainside.
A bean-nighe ('washerwoman') is a specific type of ban-sìth. [8]Both the Irish bean sídhe and the Scottish Gaelic ban-sìth (both meaning 'woman of the sídhe ', 'fairy woman' or 'woman of peace') are derived from the Old Irish ben síde, 'fairy woman': bean: 'woman', and sídhe: the genitive of 'fairy'.
A banshee (/ ˈ b æ n ʃ iː / BAN-shee; Modern Irish bean sí, from Old Irish: ben síde [bʲen ˈʃiːðʲe], "woman of the fairy mound" or "fairy woman") is a female spirit in Irish folklore who heralds the death of a family member, [1] usually by screaming, wailing, shrieking, or keening.
Scottish mythology is the collection of myths that have emerged throughout the history of Scotland, ... Folk beliefs about the Banshee also reflect aspects of these ...
In Irish and Scottish mythology, the banshee is a "fairy woman" whose mournful wail heralds an imminent death. Banshee may also refer to: Computing
A fuath once seen at this mill was a nose-less banshee with yellow hair wearing a green silk dress; in the story of its capture [a] it was tormented into submission by use of steel (awl, and more effectively by a sewing needle), but it turned to a jellyfish-like mass when light was shone on it. A fuath on the estate farm, encountered on a ...
Clíodna of Carrigcleena is the potent banshee that rules as queen over the sióga (fairies) of South Munster, or Desmond. [1] In some Irish myths, Clíodhna is a goddess of love and beauty, and the patron of County Cork. [2] She is said to have three brightly coloured birds who eat apples from an otherworldly tree and whose sweet song heals ...
Banshee – (Scottish, Gaelic, Irish) Chindi - (Navajo) The dark side of the soul which has the ability to remain behind in the earth after death and become a sort of dark spirit. Drekavac (Croatia) Name used for several distinct undead monsters. Ghost – (Worldwide) Inipi- (California Native) shapeshifting ghosts; Jikininki; Kuchisake-onna ...