Exploring Irish Mythology: The Banshee | The Irish Post
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Exploring Irish Mythology: The Banshee | The Irish Post
The Girl in the Dark of the Woods: Repression and Subversion in Folk Horror
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In medieval times magpies would have been found scavenging near battlegrounds, field hospitals, and the gallows in search of decaying flesh, and became associated with this. Victorians were so fearful of magpies that they nearly hunted them to extinction.
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the Celtic tradition mentioned supernatural women who take warriors to mysterious islands to make them immortal with their love https://t.co/CQEHCZXz3f
“Griselda Gowdie,” Grissel replied. “My mam is Janet Gowdie, the banshee of Auldearn, and my granny Isobel was pricked, hanged, and burned while she still lived, many years ago in Nairn.”
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In This Seaside Town, the New Year Brings a Battle With the ‘Witches of the Sea’
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