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Ireland's Best Known Spirit - The Banshee

Since it's Halloween week I decided to look at Ireland's best known and most feared spirit, the banshee.

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The Highland iteration of the ominous ‘Washerwoman of the Ford’, the Bean Nighe is a lady you most certainly don’t want to find cleaning your smalls.Appearing to most witnesses as an old hag complete with webbed feet, one nostril and one tooth (though she was also known to adopt the image of a beautiful young woman), the Bean Nighe was said to be found at the sides of quiet streams and pools washing blood-stained clothes. This was a terrible omen for whoever the clothes belonged to as it meant Water Wraith, Bean Nighe, Irish Legends, Celtic Myth, Green Clothes, Alan Lee, John Howe, Irish Mythology, Oh My Goddess

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8 Scariest Monsters from Folklore

Watch out for these 8 blood-curdling beasts on your next trip around the British Isles!

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Q is for Queen. Learn more here. Famous, but so misunderstood, the wailing Banshee is the queen of fear. Folklore Image credit. True Irish Ghost Stories by St. John D. Seymour and Harry L. Neligan …

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Banshee - Irish Folklore

If you’ve ever heard the expression “wailing like a Banshee“, you’ll probably understand to some extent what that means. Banshees originated in Irish folklore around the 8th century, they were “born” as a result of the “keeners”, who were women that were hired to mourn outside of the house of someone who was expected to die. As this tradition died out itself, their legend lived on in the form of Banshees. Banshees are said to appear before someone dies in their designated family, they’ll…

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Banshee: Queen of Fear #AtoZChallenge #folklore

Q is for Queen. Learn more here. Famous, but so misunderstood, the wailing Banshee is the queen of fear. Folklore Image credit. True Irish Ghost Stories by St. John D. Seymour and Harry L. Neligan …

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