@Boots1313
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Urban legends, myths and folklore
Also the Montauk Project ..which the ever popular "stranger things" is based off of.
in a moonless night in a humble fishing village, a legendary city so bright appears for a few minutes that's so advanced in architectural design that it couldn't have been made by the technology of man.
a mysterious letter from a missing girl appears in her family's doorstep years after her disappearance, detailing how she fell in love and married the wealthiest man in this lost city.
far as i'm concerned though, this might just be human trafficking and shoddy police work.
Posted by virgoOPPP
in a moonless night in a humble fishing village, a legendary city so bright appears for a few minutes that's so advanced in architectural design that it couldn't have been made by the technology of man.
a mysterious letter from a missing girl appears in her family's doorstep years after her disappearance, detailing how she fell in love and married the wealthiest man in this lost city.
far as i'm concerned though, this might just be human trafficking and shoddy police work.
Prob the latter, but one can dream ...
Posted by Boots1313
Posted by virgoOPPP
in a moonless night in a humble fishing village, a legendary city so bright appears for a few minutes that's so advanced in architectural design that it couldn't have been made by the technology of man.
a mysterious letter from a missing girl appears in her family's doorstep years after her disappearance, detailing how she fell in love and married the wealthiest man in this lost city.
far as i'm concerned though, this might just be human trafficking and shoddy police work.
Prob the latter, but one can dream ...
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check out hungarian folktales
they're amazing
The Banshee
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Banshee means ‘Faerie woman’. A Banshee is known in Ireland as a female spirit who wails outside a home to warn of the imminent death of a family member. Often heard before she is seen, her wailing is that high-pitched that nobody would dare to willingly attempt to witness this terrifying spirit.
In Ireland, the Banshee does not bring or cause death but warns loved ones that death is near which gives the family a chance to prepare. Some believe that she acts as an escort to ensure that their loved one passes safely to the other side.
Legends of the Irish Banshee
Stories of the Banshee have been passed on through the generations for centuries. Some say that the Banshee is the ghost of a young woman who was brutally killed and died so horribly that she now watches families and loved ones warning them of impending death.
According to Legend, the Banshee can also take on many forms. However, in Ireland, she has been most commonly seen as either a beautiful, young woman with long, flowing silver/white (sometimes red) hair or as an old woman in rags with dirty grey hair, long fingernails and sharp-pointed rotten teeth. Both descriptions also give the Banshee eyes which are noticeably red from crying so much.
Here are some appearances that the Banshee is said to take:
-An old woman dressed in black with long grey hair and covering her -face with a veil.
-An old woman with long white hair, red eyes and dressed in a green dress.
-A deathly pale woman with long red hair dressed in a white dress sometimes a shroud.
-A beautiful woman wearing a shroud.
-A beautiful woman with silver-white hair wearing a long shimmering silver dress, carrying or using a silver comb.
-A headless woman naked from the waist up and carrying a bowl of blood.
As you can see there are a few variations on the description of how the Banshee actually looks. However, the fear she instils in people who have the bad luck of hearing her is always the same. What all witnesses of the Banshee agree on is most terrifying wailing.
The Banshee is famous for her long, melancholy keening, which is an Irish word which is used to describe the lament that women used to do over the body of a deceased person to ward off evil spirits.
Originally it was said that the Banshee only keened for the families; O’Grady, O’Neill, O’Brien, O’Connor and Kavanagh. However, there are stories from various other families and that she particularly favourites those with an ‘O’ or a ‘Mc’ in the surname such as O’Brien or McNeill for example.
A personal account of the Banshee
Stories have been passed down through generations of Irish families with their personal experiences and meetings with the Banshee and this family were no different.
“I remember being told as a young child of an Uncle who was walking home on a cold and blustery night. He was probably three sheets to the wind after partaking of a snifter to keep the cold out. On arriving home he told my grandmother that he had tried to comfort an old woman he had met along the way. Describing her, he said, “the old woman was dressed in black with a veil over her face, was crying and wailing outside the house.” Every time he went over to her she moved away but all the while kept pointing at the house.
My Grandmother, with all her knowledge of the old Irish legends, knew straight away what this old lady represented and hurried my Uncle to bed reassuring him that she, herself, would have a look for the old woman. Needless to say, she didn’t dare do such a thing. Then, sure enough, only three days after this strange encounter, my Grandmother’s brother died peacefully in his sleep. As children, we used to plague my uncle to recount the story of the night he tried to invite the Banshee in for tea!”
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Pooka
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Pooka pronounced poo-ka is from the old Irish ‘púca’, which means ‘goblin’. There are many variations of the spelling Pooka some of which are Púca, Plica, Phuca, Pwwka, Puka or Pookha all of which are totally acceptable. It is possible that the origin of the word Pooka may come from the Scandinavian word Pook or Puke meaning ‘nature spirit’.
What is a Pooka?
A Pooka is a shapeshifter and can take any form it chooses but usually, it is seen in the form of a dog, rabbit, goat, goblin or even an old man. Traditionally a Pooka is seen as a dark, sleek horse with a long wild flowing mane and luminescent golden eyes.
An important thing to always remember about a Pooka is that they have the power of human speech and when inclined make great sport of those they talk to as they like to embellish the truth.
In Ireland, the Púca seems to be the most feared Faerie possibly because it appears only at night and enjoys creating havoc and mischief. We feel this is doing the Pooka an injustice because there are no recorded incidences of a Pooka actually causing a human any harm.
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The Banshee
*************
Banshee means ‘Faerie woman’. A Banshee is known in Ireland as a female spirit who wails outside a home to warn of the imminent death of a family member. Often heard before she is seen, her wailing is that high-pitched that nobody would dare to willingly attempt to witness this terrifying spirit.
In Ireland, the Banshee does not bring or cause death but warns loved ones that death is near which gives the family a chance to prepare. Some believe that she acts as an escort to ensure that their loved one passes safely to the other side.
Legends of the Irish Banshee
Stories of the Banshee have been passed on through the generations for centuries. Some say that the Banshee is the ghost of a young woman who was brutally killed and died so horribly that she now watches families and loved ones warning them of impending death.
According to Legend, the Banshee can also take on many forms. However, in Ireland, she has been most commonly seen as either a beautiful, young woman with long, flowing silver/white (sometimes red) hair or as an old woman in rags with dirty grey hair, long fingernails and sharp-pointed rotten teeth. Both descriptions also give the Banshee eyes which are noticeably red from crying so much.
Here are some appearances that the Banshee is said to take:
-An old woman dressed in black with long grey hair and covering her -face with a veil.
-An old woman with long white hair, red eyes and dressed in a green dress.
-A deathly pale woman with long red hair dressed in a white dress sometimes a shroud.
-A beautiful woman wearing a shroud.
-A beautiful woman with silver-white hair wearing a long shimmering silver dress, carrying or using a silver comb.
-A headless woman naked from the waist up and carrying a bowl of blood.
As you can see there are a few variations on the description of how the Banshee actually looks. However, the fear she instils in people who have the bad luck of hearing her is always the same. What all witnesses of the Banshee agree on is most terrifying wailing.
The Banshee is famous for her long, melancholy keening, which is an Irish word which is used to describe the lament that women used to do over the body of a deceased person to ward off evil spirits.
Originally it was said that the Banshee only keened for the families; O’Grady, O’Neill, O’Brien, O’Connor and Kavanagh. However, there are stories from various other families and that she particularly favourites those with an ‘O’ or a ‘Mc’ in the surname such as O’Brien or McNeill for example.
A personal account of the Banshee
Stories have been passed down through generations of Irish families with their personal experiences and meetings with the Banshee and this family were no different.
“I remember being told as a young child of an Uncle who was walking home on a cold and blustery night. He was probably three sheets to the wind after partaking of a snifter to keep the cold out. On arriving home he told my grandmother that he had tried to comfort an old woman he had met along the way. Describing her, he said, “the old woman was dressed in black with a veil over her face, was crying and wailing outside the house.” Every time he went over to her she moved away but all the while kept pointing at the house.
My Grandmother, with all her knowledge of the old Irish legends, knew straight away what this old lady represented and hurried my Uncle to bed reassuring him that she, herself, would have a look for the old woman. Needless to say, she didn’t dare do such a thing. Then, sure enough, only three days after this strange encounter, my Grandmother’s brother died peacefully in his sleep. As children, we used to plague my uncle to recount the story of the night he tried to invite the Banshee in for tea!”
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Ooo yes chills
When I was a child my mom use to call me a banshee because I would scream my head off and run around the house 😂.
My grandmother was very superstitious.
She has a similar story she would tell me.
"If you ever head a sceech owl, it warms of death".
On several occasions she would tell me "I heard a screech owl, old man so and so has been I'll, maybe he will die tonight" and sure enough it would happen.
On the night she had a stroke that took her life, I heard a screech owl while walking home from the bar.
I'm not sure if it's coincidence , but to this day I get chills if I hear a screech owl.
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Posted by Boots1313
Posted by virgoOPPP
in a moonless night in a humble fishing village, a legendary city so bright appears for a few minutes that's so advanced in architectural design that it couldn't have been made by the technology of man.
a mysterious letter from a missing girl appears in her family's doorstep years after her disappearance, detailing how she fell in love and married the wealthiest man in this lost city.
far as i'm concerned though, this might just be human trafficking and shoddy police work.
Prob the latter, but one can dream ...
check out hungarian folktales
they're amazing
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Any specific ones you recommend?
Posted by AnotherTaurusGuyReturns
@virgoOPPP - have you gone to try to see the city?
A castle near me is supposed to be haunted by a woman who was secretly married to the Lord of the castle but some priests threw her down a well.
Yikes, getting images of the ring with that one.
Posted by Boots1313
Posted by MyStarsShine
The Banshee
*************
Banshee means ‘Faerie woman’. A Banshee is known in Ireland as a female spirit who wails outside a home to warn of the imminent death of a family member. Often heard before she is seen, her wailing is that high-pitched that nobody would dare to willingly attempt to witness this terrifying spirit.
In Ireland, the Banshee does not bring or cause death but warns loved ones that death is near which gives the family a chance to prepare. Some believe that she acts as an escort to ensure that their loved one passes safely to the other side.
Legends of the Irish Banshee
Stories of the Banshee have been passed on through the generations for centuries. Some say that the Banshee is the ghost of a young woman who was brutally killed and died so horribly that she now watches families and loved ones warning them of impending death.
According to Legend, the Banshee can also take on many forms. However, in Ireland, she has been most commonly seen as either a beautiful, young woman with long, flowing silver/white (sometimes red) hair or as an old woman in rags with dirty grey hair, long fingernails and sharp-pointed rotten teeth. Both descriptions also give the Banshee eyes which are noticeably red from crying so much.
Here are some appearances that the Banshee is said to take:
-An old woman dressed in black with long grey hair and covering her -face with a veil.
-An old woman with long white hair, red eyes and dressed in a green dress.
-A deathly pale woman with long red hair dressed in a white dress sometimes a shroud.
-A beautiful woman wearing a shroud.
-A beautiful woman with silver-white hair wearing a long shimmering silver dress, carrying or using a silver comb.
-A headless woman naked from the waist up and carrying a bowl of blood.
As you can see there are a few variations on the description of how the Banshee actually looks. However, the fear she instils in people who have the bad luck of hearing her is always the same. What all witnesses of the Banshee agree on is most terrifying wailing.
The Banshee is famous for her long, melancholy keening, which is an Irish word which is used to describe the lament that women used to do over the body of a deceased person to ward off evil spirits.
Originally it was said that the Banshee only keened for the families; O’Grady, O’Neill, O’Brien, O’Connor and Kavanagh. However, there are stories from various other families and that she particularly favourites those with an ‘O’ or a ‘Mc’ in the surname such as O’Brien or McNeill for example.
A personal account of the Banshee
Stories have been passed down through generations of Irish families with their personal experiences and meetings with the Banshee and this family were no different.
“I remember being told as a young child of an Uncle who was walking home on a cold and blustery night. He was probably three sheets to the wind after partaking of a snifter to keep the cold out. On arriving home he told my grandmother that he had tried to comfort an old woman he had met along the way. Describing her, he said, “the old woman was dressed in black with a veil over her face, was crying and wailing outside the house.” Every time he went over to her she moved away but all the while kept pointing at the house.
My Grandmother, with all her knowledge of the old Irish legends, knew straight away what this old lady represented and hurried my Uncle to bed reassuring him that she, herself, would have a look for the old woman. Needless to say, she didn’t dare do such a thing. Then, sure enough, only three days after this strange encounter, my Grandmother’s brother died peacefully in his sleep. As children, we used to plague my uncle to recount the story of the night he tried to invite the Banshee in for tea!”
*~*~*~~*~*
👻
Ooo yes chills
When I was a child my mom use to call me a banshee because I would scream my head off and run around the house 😂.
My grandmother was very superstitious.
She has a similar story she would tell me.
"If you ever head a sceech owl, it warms of death".
On several occasions she would tell me "I heard a screech owl, old man so and so has been I'll, maybe he will die tonight" and sure enough it would happen.
On the night she had a stroke that took her life, I heard a screech owl while walking home from the bar.
I'm not sure if it's coincidence , but to this day I get chills if I hear a screech owl.
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Wow....that is some story....!
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@virgoOPPP - have you gone to try to see the city?
A castle near me is supposed to be haunted by a woman who was secretly married to the Lord of the castle but some priests threw her down a well.
Yikes, getting images of the ring with that one.
Apparently the ghost rises back out of the well.
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Posted by AnotherTaurusGuyReturns
@virgoOPPP - have you gone to try to see the city?
A castle near me is supposed to be haunted by a woman who was secretly married to the Lord of the castle but some priests threw her down a well.
not yet coz it's a bit far
though there's a bridge there that i've always wanted to see
Posted by FuckItWhatever
In the town/city I grew up in the majority of people I was close to said they’d seen some type of ghost/demon/spirit or something like that they couldn’t explain at some point in their life. There was this one old cemetery with a park next to it where lots of people including me saw dark shadow figures. Lots of people said they saw them on the canals that ran through town too. This is just small scale stuff I personally experienced though and there’s no cool urban myth that goes along with it lol
I lived in Hawaii for a few years too, and there the idea of ghosts and spirits is very ingrained in the culture and I guess seen as more ‘normal’ than it might be other places. There’s lots of that stuff in ancient Hawaiian religion and other Pacific Islander religion. And in some Asian cultures like Japanese, and a lot of Japanese people live in Hawaii.
One prominent myth there involves the spirits of Ancient Hawaiian tribal warriors, there was a lot of different battles through the years and as the islands aren’t that big, you’re never too far away from where one too place over centuries and centuries of time. They call the spirits of these warriors “Nightmarchers”
Oooohh I saw the nightmarchers on a t.v show once
You die if you look at then or something?
Love, how spirits are so ingrained in some cultures.
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In the town/city I grew up in the majority of people I was close to said they’d seen some type of ghost/demon/spirit or something like that they couldn’t explain at some point in their life. There was this one old cemetery with a park next to it where lots of people including me saw dark shadow figures. Lots of people said they saw them on the canals that ran through town too. This is just small scale stuff I personally experienced though and there’s no cool urban myth that goes along with it lol
I lived in Hawaii for a few years too, and there the idea of ghosts and spirits is very ingrained in the culture and I guess seen as more ‘normal’ than it might be other places. There’s lots of that stuff in ancient Hawaiian religion and other Pacific Islander religion. And in some Asian cultures like Japanese, and a lot of Japanese people live in Hawaii.
One prominent myth there involves the spirits of Ancient Hawaiian tribal warriors, there was a lot of different battles through the years and as the islands aren’t that big, you’re never too far away from where one too place over centuries and centuries of time. They call the spirits of these warriors “Nightmarchers”
Oooohh I saw the nightmarchers on a t.v show once
You die if you look at then or something?
Love, how spirits are so ingrained in some cultures.
Yeah they say if you look away and show them proper respect you’ll be fine, but if you look at them especially in a threatening way they’ll getcha 😟
Yeah it’s cool to learn about this kind of stuff. By now a lot of these folklore concepts have spread around the whole world because of how connected everything is, but it’s cool to learn about their roots in their countries of origin and see what influence they had in the culture
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That's why I made this thread.
I have researched a lot of folklores. But everyday there are stories I hear about that I didn't know. it's more interesting to hear from those who either have expierences or where it's a part of life, or the stories have been passed down from generation.
Ok. Oct 12th on my way to my daughters BDay party my roofer company calling me and woman says it am so sorry about your loss...I thought my roof was blown off and away...
So I’ve asked what happened?
She says...it’s a shame you should be going trough this tragedy...
I was like SHIT! What are you talking about?
She said...about death in your family...
I said...WHAAAAT?
She goes...sooooo...nobody died in your family?
I was told my eyes were bigger than my eye glasses...I said NOoooo!!!
She started to apologize profusely and I was like whatever...but I was shaken up of course...
THEN instead of hanging up she says...I just wanted to remind you about the balance for your roof installation...
I lost it!!!
I was like...YOU CALLING TO SAY THAT AT TIME OF DEATH IN THE FAMILY—
She went...is this miss XXX
I am like NOOOOO!!!
.......and if you will call me one more time there is going to be death in YOUR family!!!
Must I tell you I’ve got drunk at that party?
...🤦♀️...
Posted by TheRabbit
"Trickle Down" Economics
😱Omg, that is horrifying!!
Posted by shakedown
10 Minutes From My Home:
"According to folklore, she was cruel when she was alive, scaring neighbors frequently and being accused of casting a spell on her husband that made him walk off a cliff. She is said to have predicted her own death, casting a spell upon her home so that shortly after her corpse was carried out, it burst into flames."
That's messed up.
Anything freaky happen in the area because of that?
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I love the myth about "The Winchester House." Freaks me out.
The one in San Jose, California? If so I’ve been there lol. I was a kid when I went though so I thought it was kinda boring tbh lol...didn’t see any ghosts 👻
Yes!!! No ghosts 😔😔😔, but I would love to visit.
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House is freaky. Definitely on my bucket list.
I thought there were spirits ...isn't that why she built the house and was in constant construction? To keep the spirits of the Winchester rifel at bay?
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I love the myth about "The Winchester House." Freaks me out.
The one in San Jose, California? If so I’ve been there lol. I was a kid when I went though so I thought it was kinda boring tbh lol...didn’t see any ghosts 👻
Yes!!! No ghosts 😔😔😔, but I would love to visit.
House is freaky. Definitely on my bucket list.
I thought there were spirits ...isn't that why she built the house and was in constant construction? To keep the spirits of the Winchester rifel at bay?
Yea there’s different theories about the place, the main point of the myth is that the ghosts of people killed by Winchester rifles haunt the house. And then the actual house itself has all kinds of weird things going on. Like iirc tons of stuff in the house is related to the number 13, like a staircase with 13 steps, candleholders that hold 13 candles, stuff like that. And then there’s staircases that lead nowhere just going straight to the ceiling. She could’ve always just been a crazy lady, but ghosts are more fun lol
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What's wrong with the #13? 🙃😉
Anyway, yeah i know of the legend. Doors that lead to 10ft drops and stairways to nowhere
Just an interesting piece of architecture, with or without ghosts!
I went down a mandela effect rabbithole the other day, for a fact the government is definitely definitely definitely definitely definitely definitely 100,000,000% is playing with time because they sayin charlie from willy wonka pulled out a big ugly ass fat ass moonpie instead of a big ass rectangle ass chocolate bar and opened it for thr golden ticket smh that's cap ...
And then a nigga found out ricky never said "Lucy u got some explainin to do!!!' nigga said "Lucy do you care to explain " smh lol that fuciin shit don't even sound right smfh they fuckin the timeline up meanwhile ppl worried about fake ass politics while they all livin they best life playin with ppls life in the background of things 😂😂😭🌋🤣🤣🤣
Posted by Boots1313
In honor of Halloween...What are some Urban legends/folklore from your culture or region?
I know there are many different nationalities on this site and some are very set in folklore.
Curious as to what are lengends/tales from your area.
Some from my area and region are:
The lady of lake ronkonkoma. There is an Indian princess who fell in love with a white man. Her father forbid her to marry him and so she drowned herself in the lake. Every year since she has taken a male victim.
There have been 160 something drowings. Only two were female. It is also legend to be a bottomless lake .
.The Amityville horror ...guy went crazy and killed his whole family. Said the spirits made him do it.
Regionally we have The Jersey devil, and Bigfoot as cyptids.
Share yours
Lots.
Here its a month long festival .. Samhain in Irish just means november in Irish halloween is Oíche Shamhna meaning the eve of november. And it was the Hallowed eve in Irish. Everyone is supposed to give to charity as much as they can because it will be supposedly harder in december. You are also meant to try and take lot of vitamins and eat superfoods to stock up your reserves for winter. Same with cattle. And you purify your cattle with bonfires.
Children eat a special meal with colcannon with metal pieces in it (coins now but traditionally blades razors or knives or spurs anything sharp. It was thought wearing sharp metal helped you control spirits instead of them controlling you.
That night the great queen comes from the bog of cats or Uaimh na gCat ( pronounced Oweynagat ). She rides out to accompany children trick or treating to intimidating people into giving sweets to every kid whether they be rich or in rags. Everyone wear a costume to not make poor kids feel diff and if you don't give them something she will ride her chariot right over your grave. Also i don't understand this but she only can move in a straight line. So when she moves you have to move out of her way. Or she might accidentaly kill you. So her husband the dagda or the Eochaid Oll Athair (the grand father horse lord ) rides out in front of her to organize time and space so people don't get run over. He rides out to intimidate and trick people into giving rich and poor kids treats alike.
In some places he is the spirit of an old chief or king. Also sometimes he has no head because he as a god sometimes beheads himself to allow himself to be lead by his heart alone at times. In some stories the great queen is also beheaded for this reason. It follows the idea that the gods are giving to the bone during the winter to remind us to try and give too. Oh some people say this queen is the morrigan.
Also you HAVE to accept the treats .. or you are a fairy or a ghost.
So the entire month of november/samhain is the festival and you are meant to give to charity.
Then in december its understood that people need to look after their own family a bit more.
OH people dress up as the dagda or the fear dubh .. by masking their face with a black hood but this is rare now only in rural areas. People offer him something he politely says no because he is not human and he can't eat. But he asks people to give it to a child. But this is meant to teach us not to make sacrifices to gods but to donate to charity for them instead. The morrigan in partic ONLY accepts gifts of charity or personal grief. She is not thought to like gifts of gold because she is too rich or great to accept them she finds them insulting. But if you have pain like grief or anything she will accept it if you want to offer it and she makes use of it in her universe.
So basically this couple rides around ireland door to door scaring the shit out of people into giving all the kid of the land treats. They are both wearing black hoods or are beheaded. If they get before you with their horses .. time shifts and you can be lost .. if you get behind them . you are safe. There is a suggestion this means if you support their endeavours you are 'behind' them.
They are makin a list these two .. they are checking it twice!
Not sure I believe any of it tbh.
There is lots more its Ireland ffs
Also there are stories in Ireland about Irish Americans. In Ireland they used to hold a wake for anyone who immigrated away .. because its like dying. And this would cause the dagda or fear dubh or morrigan to awaken .. and follow that person. But in the USA the knowledge was lost. So people interpret it as a dark entity following their family or them. But its really 'grand father horse lord' or 'the good god' (he has lots of names) encouraging people to give to charity or to make people give that person free stuff.
If he is following you ... then you are not behind /supporting him in being generous or being 'flaithiúlach'. If you see him ahead of you he is making sure people are generous to you.
flaithiúlach has many meanings in irish princely generous luxurious ... to both yourself and others.
This is an Irish song (sung by a russian group here)
But its from the 18th century but its supposedly secretly about either mananan mc lir or the dagd both were 'dark gods' who were very charitable. And expected to bring forth charitable leaders and men.
This song is about how much the entire village loves this ' sweet dark headed person. ' Or in Irish CEANN DUBH DILIS. Dark sweet head
At halloween we also have barnbrack .. in like EVERY shop its a fruit cake with a ring in it. (in shops its a cheap ring) But if you go to a luxury shop you can get an expensive ring. Also people make their own and put like FIVE rings in it for everyone.
Or they put money in it.
Also lots of dishes that are traditional to eat at this time have money in the dish usually wrapped in baking paper for hygiene.
Anna Livia Plurabelle is from James Joyce. She is now considered the goddess of the river liffey by dubliners in real life.
The Irish of dublin were told that god would only listen to prayers in latin or English but NEVER in Irish. But one day an Irish speaker went to the Black Madonna or "Our Lady of Dublin" is a historic 16th-century oak statue of the Madonna and Child housed in the Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church on Aungier Street in central Dublin. She represents Our lady as a woman of colour.
So the story is the man could ONLY speak Irish and knowing god would not listen in Irish he went to the Black Madonna when his baby was sick. And he prayed to her in Irish and when he went home the child was healthy.
We think she accepts prayers in all languages and today the people of dublin pray to her in many languages.
Remember I said Anna Livia Plurabelle is from James Joyce. She is now considered the goddess of the river liffey by dubliners in real life. Well the rivers doddle and poddle are her twin kids also with the spirits of real twin kids.
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Posted by MyStarsShine
The Banshee
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Banshee means ‘Faerie woman’. A Banshee is known in Ireland as a female spirit who wails outside a home to warn of the imminent death of a family member. Often heard before she is seen, her wailing is that high-pitched that nobody would dare to willingly attempt to witness this terrifying spirit.
In Ireland, the Banshee does not bring or cause death but warns loved ones that death is near which gives the family a chance to prepare. Some believe that she acts as an escort to ensure that their loved one passes safely to the other side.
Legends of the Irish Banshee
Stories of the Banshee have been passed on through the generations for centuries. Some say that the Banshee is the ghost of a young woman who was brutally killed and died so horribly that she now watches families and loved ones warning them of impending death.
According to Legend, the Banshee can also take on many forms. However, in Ireland, she has been most commonly seen as either a beautiful, young woman with long, flowing silver/white (sometimes red) hair or as an old woman in rags with dirty grey hair, long fingernails and sharp-pointed rotten teeth. Both descriptions also give the Banshee eyes which are noticeably red from crying so much.
Here are some appearances that the Banshee is said to take:
-An old woman dressed in black with long grey hair and covering her -face with a veil.
-An old woman with long white hair, red eyes and dressed in a green dress.
-A deathly pale woman with long red hair dressed in a white dress sometimes a shroud.
-A beautiful woman wearing a shroud.
-A beautiful woman with silver-white hair wearing a long shimmering silver dress, carrying or using a silver comb.
-A headless woman naked from the waist up and carrying a bowl of blood.
As you can see there are a few variations on the description of how the Banshee actually looks. However, the fear she instils in people who have the bad luck of hearing her is always the same. What all witnesses of the Banshee agree on is most terrifying wailing.
The Banshee is famous for her long, melancholy keening, which is an Irish word which is used to describe the lament that women used to do over the body of a deceased person to ward off evil spirits.
Originally it was said that the Banshee only keened for the families; O’Grady, O’Neill, O’Brien, O’Connor and Kavanagh. However, there are stories from various other families and that she particularly favourites those with an ‘O’ or a ‘Mc’ in the surname such as O’Brien or McNeill for example.
A personal account of the Banshee
Stories have been passed down through generations of Irish families with their personal experiences and meetings with the Banshee and this family were no different.
“I remember being told as a young child of an Uncle who was walking home on a cold and blustery night. He was probably three sheets to the wind after partaking of a snifter to keep the cold out. On arriving home he told my grandmother that he had tried to comfort an old woman he had met along the way. Describing her, he said, “the old woman was dressed in black with a veil over her face, was crying and wailing outside the house.” Every time he went over to her she moved away but all the while kept pointing at the house.
My Grandmother, with all her knowledge of the old Irish legends, knew straight away what this old lady represented and hurried my Uncle to bed reassuring him that she, herself, would have a look for the old woman. Needless to say, she didn’t dare do such a thing. Then, sure enough, only three days after this strange encounter, my Grandmother’s brother died peacefully in his sleep. As children, we used to plague my uncle to recount the story of the night he tried to invite the Banshee in for tea!”
*~*~*~~*~*
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Ooo yes chills
When I was a child my mom use to call me a banshee because I would scream my head off and run around the house 😂.
My grandmother was very superstitious.
She has a similar story she would tell me.
"If you ever head a sceech owl, it warms of death".
On several occasions she would tell me "I heard a screech owl, old man so and so has been I'll, maybe he will die tonight" and sure enough it would happen.
On the night she had a stroke that took her life, I heard a screech owl while walking home from the bar.
I'm not sure if it's coincidence , but to this day I get chills if I hear a screech owl.
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In ireland mná sidhe can also be a crow a fox or the call of either.. also they have names diff mná sidhe etc .
While most are solitary family guardians, folklore recognizes high-ranking supernatural queens and goddesses who rule over them and the mounds, most notably Clíodhna and Aibhill.
Clíodhna is the beansidhe for munster Aibhill is the bean sidhe for connacht .. the bean sidhe for leinster is the morrigan herself and the bean sidhe for ulster is Badb ( you will NEVER guess how that is pronounced BIVE .. like Five). Ulster has lots of them actually Nemain also Macha..
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Posted by MyStarsShine
The Banshee
*************
Banshee means ‘Faerie woman’. A Banshee is known in Ireland as a female spirit who wails outside a home to warn of the imminent death of a family member. Often heard before she is seen, her wailing is that high-pitched that nobody would dare to willingly attempt to witness this terrifying spirit.
In Ireland, the Banshee does not bring or cause death but warns loved ones that death is near which gives the family a chance to prepare. Some believe that she acts as an escort to ensure that their loved one passes safely to the other side.
Legends of the Irish Banshee
Stories of the Banshee have been passed on through the generations for centuries. Some say that the Banshee is the ghost of a young woman who was brutally killed and died so horribly that she now watches families and loved ones warning them of impending death.
According to Legend, the Banshee can also take on many forms. However, in Ireland, she has been most commonly seen as either a beautiful, young woman with long, flowing silver/white (sometimes red) hair or as an old woman in rags with dirty grey hair, long fingernails and sharp-pointed rotten teeth. Both descriptions also give the Banshee eyes which are noticeably red from crying so much.
Here are some appearances that the Banshee is said to take:
-An old woman dressed in black with long grey hair and covering her -face with a veil.
-An old woman with long white hair, red eyes and dressed in a green dress.
-A deathly pale woman with long red hair dressed in a white dress sometimes a shroud.
-A beautiful woman wearing a shroud.
-A beautiful woman with silver-white hair wearing a long shimmering silver dress, carrying or using a silver comb.
-A headless woman naked from the waist up and carrying a bowl of blood.
As you can see there are a few variations on the description of how the Banshee actually looks. However, the fear she instils in people who have the bad luck of hearing her is always the same. What all witnesses of the Banshee agree on is most terrifying wailing.
The Banshee is famous for her long, melancholy keening, which is an Irish word which is used to describe the lament that women used to do over the body of a deceased person to ward off evil spirits.
Originally it was said that the Banshee only keened for the families; O’Grady, O’Neill, O’Brien, O’Connor and Kavanagh. However, there are stories from various other families and that she particularly favourites those with an ‘O’ or a ‘Mc’ in the surname such as O’Brien or McNeill for example.
A personal account of the Banshee
Stories have been passed down through generations of Irish families with their personal experiences and meetings with the Banshee and this family were no different.
“I remember being told as a young child of an Uncle who was walking home on a cold and blustery night. He was probably three sheets to the wind after partaking of a snifter to keep the cold out. On arriving home he told my grandmother that he had tried to comfort an old woman he had met along the way. Describing her, he said, “the old woman was dressed in black with a veil over her face, was crying and wailing outside the house.” Every time he went over to her she moved away but all the while kept pointing at the house.
My Grandmother, with all her knowledge of the old Irish legends, knew straight away what this old lady represented and hurried my Uncle to bed reassuring him that she, herself, would have a look for the old woman. Needless to say, she didn’t dare do such a thing. Then, sure enough, only three days after this strange encounter, my Grandmother’s brother died peacefully in his sleep. As children, we used to plague my uncle to recount the story of the night he tried to invite the Banshee in for tea!”
*~*~*~~*~*
👻
Ooo yes chills
When I was a child my mom use to call me a banshee because I would scream my head off and run around the house 😂.
My grandmother was very superstitious.
She has a similar story she would tell me.
"If you ever head a sceech owl, it warms of death".
On several occasions she would tell me "I heard a screech owl, old man so and so has been I'll, maybe he will die tonight" and sure enough it would happen.
On the night she had a stroke that took her life, I heard a screech owl while walking home from the bar.
I'm not sure if it's coincidence , but to this day I get chills if I hear a screech owl.
click to expand
In ireland mná sidhe can also be a crow a fox or the call of either.. also they have names diff mná sidhe etc .
While most are solitary family guardians, folklore recognizes high-ranking supernatural queens and goddesses who rule over them and the mounds, most notably Clíodhna and Aibhill.
Clíodhna is the beansidhe for munster Aibhill is the bean sidhe for connacht .. the bean sidhe for leinster is the morrigan herself and the bean sidhe for ulster is Badb ( you will NEVER guess how that is pronounced BIVE .. like Five). Ulster has lots of them actually Nemain also Macha..
Posted by Boots1313
Posted by MyStarsShine
The Banshee
*************
Banshee means ‘Faerie woman’. A Banshee is known in Ireland as a female spirit who wails outside a home to warn of the imminent death of a family member. Often heard before she is seen, her wailing is that high-pitched that nobody would dare to willingly attempt to witness this terrifying spirit.
In Ireland, the Banshee does not bring or cause death but warns loved ones that death is near which gives the family a chance to prepare. Some believe that she acts as an escort to ensure that their loved one passes safely to the other side.
Legends of the Irish Banshee
Stories of the Banshee have been passed on through the generations for centuries. Some say that the Banshee is the ghost of a young woman who was brutally killed and died so horribly that she now watches families and loved ones warning them of impending death.
According to Legend, the Banshee can also take on many forms. However, in Ireland, she has been most commonly seen as either a beautiful, young woman with long, flowing silver/white (sometimes red) hair or as an old woman in rags with dirty grey hair, long fingernails and sharp-pointed rotten teeth. Both descriptions also give the Banshee eyes which are noticeably red from crying so much.
Here are some appearances that the Banshee is said to take:
-An old woman dressed in black with long grey hair and covering her -face with a veil.
-An old woman with long white hair, red eyes and dressed in a green dress.
-A deathly pale woman with long red hair dressed in a white dress sometimes a shroud.
-A beautiful woman wearing a shroud.
-A beautiful woman with silver-white hair wearing a long shimmering silver dress, carrying or using a silver comb.
-A headless woman naked from the waist up and carrying a bowl of blood.
As you can see there are a few variations on the description of how the Banshee actually looks. However, the fear she instils in people who have the bad luck of hearing her is always the same. What all witnesses of the Banshee agree on is most terrifying wailing.
The Banshee is famous for her long, melancholy keening, which is an Irish word which is used to describe the lament that women used to do over the body of a deceased person to ward off evil spirits.
Originally it was said that the Banshee only keened for the families; O’Grady, O’Neill, O’Brien, O’Connor and Kavanagh. However, there are stories from various other families and that she particularly favourites those with an ‘O’ or a ‘Mc’ in the surname such as O’Brien or McNeill for example.
A personal account of the Banshee
Stories have been passed down through generations of Irish families with their personal experiences and meetings with the Banshee and this family were no different.
“I remember being told as a young child of an Uncle who was walking home on a cold and blustery night. He was probably three sheets to the wind after partaking of a snifter to keep the cold out. On arriving home he told my grandmother that he had tried to comfort an old woman he had met along the way. Describing her, he said, “the old woman was dressed in black with a veil over her face, was crying and wailing outside the house.” Every time he went over to her she moved away but all the while kept pointing at the house.
My Grandmother, with all her knowledge of the old Irish legends, knew straight away what this old lady represented and hurried my Uncle to bed reassuring him that she, herself, would have a look for the old woman. Needless to say, she didn’t dare do such a thing. Then, sure enough, only three days after this strange encounter, my Grandmother’s brother died peacefully in his sleep. As children, we used to plague my uncle to recount the story of the night he tried to invite the Banshee in for tea!”
*~*~*~~*~*
👻
Ooo yes chills
When I was a child my mom use to call me a banshee because I would scream my head off and run around the house 😂.
My grandmother was very superstitious.
She has a similar story she would tell me.
"If you ever head a sceech owl, it warms of death".
On several occasions she would tell me "I heard a screech owl, old man so and so has been I'll, maybe he will die tonight" and sure enough it would happen.
On the night she had a stroke that took her life, I heard a screech owl while walking home from the bar.
I'm not sure if it's coincidence , but to this day I get chills if I hear a screech owl.
click to expand
Also sidhe does not mean fairy ..siog is fairy .. sidhe means grave mound .. like the mound people used to bury high born people in... like newgrange it means mound
The Daoine Sídhe (pronounced hard d dee-nyee shee) translates from Irish as "people of the burial mounds".
Bean sidhe literally means woman of the burial mounds or grave woman? I am not sure where fairy woman came from but i hear it a lot but no it is a completely diff meaning .. its a woman from the burial mounds.
aos sí or aos sídhe means folk of the burial mounds. Which is where people used to bury high born people in ireland. Newgrange is a burial mound or a sidhe or sith in scots gaelic . .. its a type of mound or grave.
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Posted by Boots1313
Posted by MyStarsShine
The Banshee
*************
Banshee means ‘Faerie woman’. A Banshee is known in Ireland as a female spirit who wails outside a home to warn of the imminent death of a family member. Often heard before she is seen, her wailing is that high-pitched that nobody would dare to willingly attempt to witness this terrifying spirit.
In Ireland, the Banshee does not bring or cause death but warns loved ones that death is near which gives the family a chance to prepare. Some believe that she acts as an escort to ensure that their loved one passes safely to the other side.
Legends of the Irish Banshee
Stories of the Banshee have been passed on through the generations for centuries. Some say that the Banshee is the ghost of a young woman who was brutally killed and died so horribly that she now watches families and loved ones warning them of impending death.
According to Legend, the Banshee can also take on many forms. However, in Ireland, she has been most commonly seen as either a beautiful, young woman with long, flowing silver/white (sometimes red) hair or as an old woman in rags with dirty grey hair, long fingernails and sharp-pointed rotten teeth. Both descriptions also give the Banshee eyes which are noticeably red from crying so much.
Here are some appearances that the Banshee is said to take:
-An old woman dressed in black with long grey hair and covering her -face with a veil.
-An old woman with long white hair, red eyes and dressed in a green dress.
-A deathly pale woman with long red hair dressed in a white dress sometimes a shroud.
-A beautiful woman wearing a shroud.
-A beautiful woman with silver-white hair wearing a long shimmering silver dress, carrying or using a silver comb.
-A headless woman naked from the waist up and carrying a bowl of blood.
As you can see there are a few variations on the description of how the Banshee actually looks. However, the fear she instils in people who have the bad luck of hearing her is always the same. What all witnesses of the Banshee agree on is most terrifying wailing.
The Banshee is famous for her long, melancholy keening, which is an Irish word which is used to describe the lament that women used to do over the body of a deceased person to ward off evil spirits.
Originally it was said that the Banshee only keened for the families; O’Grady, O’Neill, O’Brien, O’Connor and Kavanagh. However, there are stories from various other families and that she particularly favourites those with an ‘O’ or a ‘Mc’ in the surname such as O’Brien or McNeill for example.
A personal account of the Banshee
Stories have been passed down through generations of Irish families with their personal experiences and meetings with the Banshee and this family were no different.
“I remember being told as a young child of an Uncle who was walking home on a cold and blustery night. He was probably three sheets to the wind after partaking of a snifter to keep the cold out. On arriving home he told my grandmother that he had tried to comfort an old woman he had met along the way. Describing her, he said, “the old woman was dressed in black with a veil over her face, was crying and wailing outside the house.” Every time he went over to her she moved away but all the while kept pointing at the house.
My Grandmother, with all her knowledge of the old Irish legends, knew straight away what this old lady represented and hurried my Uncle to bed reassuring him that she, herself, would have a look for the old woman. Needless to say, she didn’t dare do such a thing. Then, sure enough, only three days after this strange encounter, my Grandmother’s brother died peacefully in his sleep. As children, we used to plague my uncle to recount the story of the night he tried to invite the Banshee in for tea!”
*~*~*~~*~*
👻
Ooo yes chills
When I was a child my mom use to call me a banshee because I would scream my head off and run around the house 😂.
My grandmother was very superstitious.
She has a similar story she would tell me.
"If you ever head a sceech owl, it warms of death".
On several occasions she would tell me "I heard a screech owl, old man so and so has been I'll, maybe he will die tonight" and sure enough it would happen.
On the night she had a stroke that took her life, I heard a screech owl while walking home from the bar.
I'm not sure if it's coincidence , but to this day I get chills if I hear a screech owl.click to expand
Also sidhe does not mean fairy ..siog is fairy .. sidhe means grave mound .. like the mound people used to bury high born people in... like newgrange it means mound
The Daoine Sídhe (pronounced hard d dee-nyee shee) translates from Irish as "people of the burial mounds".
Bean sidhe literally means woman of the burial mounds or grave woman? I am not sure where fairy woman came from but i hear it a lot but no it is a completely diff meaning .. its a woman from the burial mounds.
aos sí or aos sídhe means folk of the burial mounds. Which is where people used to bury high born people in ireland. Newgrange is a burial mound or a sidhe or sith in scots gaelic . .. its a type of mound or grave.
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Like sidhe does not refer to a people it means GRAVE or mound i hear new age people saying i am a sidhe or a member of the sidhe i work with the sidhe what you are saying is I am a grave i work with the graves .. its weird
The People of the Sidhe means the people of the burial mounds. Respect to them the good people.
Also apparrently certain bean sidhe follow certain irish american families.. but i actually don't know which nor if they are tied to certain places there are no burial mounds there in the USA so i don't know what the story is or how the works works. Maybe they are no longer aos sidhe any more or no longer people of the burial mounds or not spirits of the grave anymore. I don't know but i know they follow Irish American families. They prob have their own folklore in the USA about it.
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In honor of Halloween...
What are some Urban legends/folklore from your culture or region?
I know there are many different nationalities on this site and some are very set in folklore.
Curious as to what are lengends/tales from your area.
Some from my area and region are:
The lady of lake ronkonkoma. There is an Indian princess who fell in love with a white man. Her father forbid her to marry him and so she drowned herself in the lake. Every year since she has taken a male victim.
There have been 160 something drowings. Only two were female. It is also legend to be a bottomless lake .
.The Amityville horror ...guy went crazy and killed his whole family. Said the spirits made him do it.
Regionally we have The Jersey devil, and Bigfoot as cyptids.
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