Title: | Celt Notefile |
Moderator: | TALLIS::DARCY |
Created: | Wed Feb 19 1986 |
Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
Number of topics: | 1632 |
Total number of notes: | 20523 |
OK....here's a challenge I've been given! Does anybody have a technical description of the lore of BANSHEES? What they are supposed to look like / act like? Long story but I need it for a costume event. Thanks! /jen
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1510.1 | like a witch maybe ? | STOWOA::COADY | Tue Sep 26 1995 15:39 | 7 | |
Thats a good questions, based on my memory of my grand-mothers tales, they would look like witches; grey, withered, maybe dressed in white and wail a lot (as in crying at funerals). I forget why they suposedly existed, but I went to bed many nights, because of my fear that the banshee would get me if I stayed up :=). | |||||
1510.2 | POOKY::OROURKE | heaven help the heart | Tue Sep 26 1995 16:43 | 8 | |
All I've heard so far is that they are clan fairies and the whail to foretell of impending death to a clan member. But you think they dress in white, eh? I would have thought black...but that's why I'm asking! /jen | |||||
1510.3 | it depends ! | STOWOA::COADY | Tue Sep 26 1995 17:09 | 3 | |
but fairies wear white ... don't they ? | |||||
1510.4 | Some more.... | BRUMMY::BIOTEK::LONERGAN | "Digital PC's it together?!" | Wed Sep 27 1995 06:06 | 6 |
From what I recall, the Banshee is supposed to be a portent of death which wails when anyone with an O or a Mac(Mc) in their name is about to peg it. Also she was draped in black.... Sean |