bean-síghe

deity intermediate Irish single tradition · 1

The bean-síghe are she-fairies or women-fairies, believed by the common people to sing mournful lamentations about the houses of certain families by night, whenever any of the family labours under a sickness which is to end by death. Only families of an ancient & noble Stock are believed to be honoured with this fairy privilege.

When

First attested
500 CE
Attested period
1700 – 1700
Historical notes
Described in an 18th-century Irish-English dictionary.

Relationships

co occurs with
Banshee

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Sources

wikipedia (1)

Source passages

“hence bean-síghe, plural mná-síghe, she-fairies or women-fairies, credulously supposed by the common people to be so affected to certain families that they are heard to sing mournful lamentations about their houses by night, whenever any of the family labours under a sickness which is to end by death”

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