Wale of the BeanSiÂdhe by lorddarkwolf

DAZ|Studio • Cultural and Spiritual Art • posted on Oct 08, 2008

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In Irish legend, a banshee wails around a house if someone in the house is about to die. There are particular families who are believed to have banshees attached to them, and whose cries herald the death of a member of that family. Traditionally, when a citizen of an Irish village died, a woman would sing a lament (in Irish: caoineadh, ['ki?n??] or ['ki?n?u?], "caoin" meaning "to weep, to wail") at their funeral. These women singers are sometimes referred to as "keeners" and the best keeners would be in much demand. Legend has it that, for five great Gaelic families: the O'Gradys, the O'Neills, the O'Briens, the O'Connors, and the Kavanaghs, the lament would be sung by a fairy woman; having foresight, she would sing the lament when a family member died, even if the person had died far away and news of their death had not yet come, so that the wailing of the banshee was the first warning the household had of the death The term banshee is an anglicization of the Irish bean siÂdhe or bean siÂ, or the Scots Gaelic bean shiÂ¬th, - both meaning "woman of the fairy mounds" or "woman of peace". Both names are derived from the Old Irish ben siÂdhe: bean: "woman", and siÂdhe: "of the mounds". Some consider the bean nighe ("washer-woman") the Scottish counterpart of the Irish banshee. However, bean shÃ�Â¬th is the linguistic and mythological equivalent, appearing in a number of different roles and situations in folklore and mythology. The bean nighe is a specific type of bean shÃ�Â¬th.[1] In Scottish Gaelic, bean shÃ�Â¬th can also be spelled bean-shÃ�Â¬dh. SÃ�Âd in Irish, and SÃ�Â¬th in Scots Gaelic, also mean "peace", and the fairies are also referred to as "the people of peace" - Aos SÃ�Â or Daoine-SÃ�Â¬th. background by me in cs2 Wings and Trilothon modeled and textured by me