| Title: | Celt Notefile | 
| Moderator: | TALLIS::DARCY | 
| Created: | Wed Feb 19 1986 | 
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 | 
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    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 14:39 | 7 | |
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    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 :=).
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| 1510.2 | POOKY::OROURKE | heaven help the heart | Tue Sep 26 1995 15:43 | 8 | |
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    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
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| 1510.3 | it depends ! | STOWOA::COADY | Tue Sep 26 1995 16:09 | 3 | |
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    but fairies wear white ... don't they ?
    
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| 1510.4 | Some more.... | BRUMMY::BIOTEK::LONERGAN | "Digital PC's it together?!" | Wed Sep 27 1995 05:06 | 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 | |||||