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  1. Fairies of Northern Appalachia is OUT NOW!

    I’m so excited to say that “Fairies of Northern Appalachia: A History of the Little People of the Mountains” is out everywhere now.

    The book collects old and new folklore from Pennsylvania, West Virginia, eastern Ohio, Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and western Maryland. It features Pennsylvania Dutch, Scots Irish, Irish, and Cornish traditions, among others.

    Here you’ll find stories about banshees, tommyknockers, gnomes, mountain dwarves, household spirits, wassernixen, fairy queens, fairy witches, Appalachian pygmies, and arrow-shooting elves.

    The painting on the cover is “The Fairy Favourite” by John Anster Fitzgerald, which I thought perfectly captured the strangeness and diversity of Appalachian fairies. The carving on the back cover is by artist Joan Reed.

    You can find it at your local bookstore or at Amazon. The book is also available in a beautiful hardcover (see below).

    #Appalachia #AppalachianFolklore #AppalachianMountains #banshee #banshees #CornishFolklore #Elves #Fairies #Fairy #folklore #gnomes #history #Irish #Kentucky #Maryland #Ohio #Pennsylvania #PennsylvaniaDutch #ScotsIrish #tommyknocker #tommyknockers #Virginia #WestVirginia
  2. Fairies of Northern Appalachia is OUT NOW!

    I’m so excited to say that “Fairies of Northern Appalachia: A History of the Little People of the Mountains” is out everywhere now.

    The book collects old and new folklore from Pennsylvania, West Virginia, eastern Ohio, Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and western Maryland. It features Pennsylvania Dutch, Scots Irish, Irish, and Cornish traditions, among others.

    Here you’ll find stories about banshees, tommyknockers, gnomes, mountain dwarves, household spirits, wassernixen, fairy queens, fairy witches, Appalachian pygmies, and arrow-shooting elves.

    The painting on the cover is “The Fairy Favourite” by John Anster Fitzgerald, which I thought perfectly captured the strangeness and diversity of Appalachian fairies. The carving on the back cover is by artist Joan Reed.

    You can find it at your local bookstore or at Amazon. The book is also available in a beautiful hardcover (see below).

    #Appalachia #AppalachianFolklore #AppalachianMountains #banshee #banshees #CornishFolklore #Elves #Fairies #Fairy #folklore #gnomes #history #Irish #Kentucky #Maryland #Ohio #Pennsylvania #PennsylvaniaDutch #ScotsIrish #tommyknocker #tommyknockers #Virginia #WestVirginia
  3. Dex:
    This doesn't concern you, Sugar

    Sugar:
    All the same, I am concerned.

    (Banshee)

    Please gods, one day let me use that line!

    #tv #television #Banshee

  4. Dex:
    This doesn't concern you, Sugar

    Sugar:
    All the same, I am concerned.

    (Banshee)

    Please gods, one day let me use that line!

    #tv #television #Banshee

  5. RE: c.im/@QuirkyFilms/116612683365

    The Police Department was from the Cinemax action series #Banshee (2013-2016).

    The force operates in the fictional Banshee County, located in rural Pennsylvania with Sheriff's Lucas Hood (Antony Starr) and Brock Lotus (Matt Servitto).

  6. RE: c.im/@QuirkyFilms/116612683365

    The Police Department was from the Cinemax action series #Banshee (2013-2016).

    The force operates in the fictional Banshee County, located in rural Pennsylvania with Sheriff's Lucas Hood (Antony Starr) and Brock Lotus (Matt Servitto).

  7. Fairies, folk healers, and the problem of the “witch”

    I’ve recently been reading Ann Jefferies and the Fairies: A Source Book for a Seventeenth-Century Fairy Witch, published a few years ago by folklore researcher Simon Young. The book collects documents about the Cornish fairy seer Ann Jefferies, who claimed to have received healing powers from little men and women clad in green whom she called “fairies.” 

    One thing that struck me while reading the book is how strongly Ann herself would have rejected the label “witch”—something that Young readily admits. Like many folk healers and fairy seers in places as far removed as England and Appalachia, Ann considered her powers to be spiritually legitimate—even Christian.

    The distinction between healer and witch was particularly important for people like Ann in the seventeenth century. The mid-1600s were possibly the most dangerous time for someone who claimed supernatural powers: not only was the witch hysteria still alive—which meant that consorting with fairies might lead someone to be branded a witch—the Puritans were in the ascendancy, and Ann, a royalist, was considered extra suspect because she prophesied a miraculous return of the King (whom the Puritans had recently imprisoned). When she was asked to tell her story in the 1690s, the situation had evidently changed: although she remained scared of the authorities, interest in prosecuting folk healers or fairy seers as “witches” had apparently waned. (Even someone as committed to Christianity as the Bishop of Gloucester now sympathized with Ann’s story.) This suggests that the automatic identification of “fairy healing” with witchcraft had also weakened considerably, and fairy familiars were no longer assumed to be diabolical. 

    The book got me thinking a lot about folk healers and fairy seers in the geography I deal with, especially New England and Appalachia. Like Ann, these healers and seers would also have objected to the witch label. While folk healing thrived in both locations, and the tradition of special people gaining power from the fairies appeared intermittently, these healers and seers never identified as witches and often understood their work as combating witchcraft. These traditions surfaced in various forms in North America: In folktales from Pennsylvania Dutch Country, we find a hunter who learned perfect hunting ability from a “little gray man” in the Blue Mountains; a healer who practiced white magic that he learned from an “old gray man” in the Netherlands; and a herbalist who claimed to have observed a mysterious forest dwarf deep in the woods of Berks County.

    In New England, we find that the fairies sometimes bestowed knowledge of the future on their favored people, just as they did on Ann. But this had nothing to do with witchcraft: I recently met a woman in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, whose Irish great-grandmother (called Mary Sullivan) claimed that “a banshee” had told her that a family member was about to die, suggesting that some New Englanders viewed the fairies as a source of hidden knowledge. In Southern Appalachia, folk healing sometimes intersected with older fairy traditions, even when people no longer openly believed in fairies as a coherent supernatural race, but such practices were clearly differentiated from witchcraft. These people most likely saw their skills as an attempt to counter the negative influence of witches.

    The one folktale I’ve come across in Appalachia where an ambiguous attitude toward witchcraft exists is “The Witchie Folk.” Originating in Scotland, this tale was collected in Pennsylvania but apparently took root originally in West Virginia. In this story, we find a fairylike community of “witchie” people who are first looked at with suspicion but are later embraced as sympathetic beings. Deriving their power from the moon, the witchie folk apparently represent a memory of the old Scottish openness toward fairies that once existed in early-modern Scottish folklore, something I discuss in greater detail in my book. The story also suggests that at least some Appalachians understood that the distinction between witches and folk healers could become slippery. Perhaps some people really did believe that the only effective defense against witchcraft was accessing the same powers feared in witches themselves.

    Rather than identifying as witches, most folk healers and seers like Ann—in Appalachia and England—identified as Christian and even performed their healings in the “name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.” Ann’s fairies justified their bestowal of special powers by referring to the scriptures. Where fairy traditions existed explicitly in Appalachia—such as in the tradition of naming staurolite crystals in Virginia, Georgia, and North Carolina “fairy stones”—these traditions had to be “Christened,” in this case by inventing a legend that would sanctify the naming tradition and turn the fairies, ostensibly, into “Christians.” Many of these themes—Christian fairy belief, folk healing, banshees, fairy stones, and the uneasy boundary between healing and witchcraft—are explored in my forthcoming book, Fairies of Northern Appalachia. There I trace how older fairy traditions survived, adapted, and sometimes disguised themselves in the mountains and borderlands of eastern North America.

    #AnnJefferies #Appalachia #banshee #christianity #Cornish #Fairies #Fairy #fairyStones #folklore #healing #history #Irish #Magic #NewEngland #NorthernAppalachia #witch #witchcraft #witches #WitchieFolk
  8. Fairies, folk healers, and the problem of the “witch”

    I’ve recently been reading Ann Jefferies and the Fairies: A Source Book for a Seventeenth-Century Fairy Witch, published a few years ago by folklore researcher Simon Young. The book collects documents about the Cornish fairy seer Ann Jefferies, who claimed to have received healing powers from little men and women clad in green whom she called “fairies.” 

    One thing that struck me while reading the book is how strongly Ann herself would have rejected the label “witch”—something that Young readily admits. Like many folk healers and fairy seers in places as far removed as England and Appalachia, Ann considered her powers to be spiritually legitimate—even Christian.

    The distinction between healer and witch was particularly important for people like Ann in the seventeenth century. The mid-1600s were possibly the most dangerous time for someone who claimed supernatural powers: not only was the witch hysteria still alive—which meant that consorting with fairies might lead someone to be branded a witch—the Puritans were in the ascendancy, and Ann, a royalist, was considered extra suspect because she prophesied a miraculous return of the King (whom the Puritans had recently imprisoned). When she was asked to tell her story in the 1690s, the situation had evidently changed: although she remained scared of the authorities, interest in prosecuting folk healers or fairy seers as “witches” had apparently waned. (Even someone as committed to Christianity as the Bishop of Gloucester now sympathized with Ann’s story.) This suggests that the automatic identification of “fairy healing” with witchcraft had also weakened considerably, and fairy familiars were no longer assumed to be diabolical. 

    The book got me thinking a lot about folk healers and fairy seers in the geography I deal with, especially New England and Appalachia. Like Ann, these healers and seers would also have objected to the witch label. While folk healing thrived in both locations, and the tradition of special people gaining power from the fairies appeared intermittently, these healers and seers never identified as witches and often understood their work as combating witchcraft. These traditions surfaced in various forms in North America: In folktales from Pennsylvania Dutch Country, we find a hunter who learned perfect hunting ability from a “little gray man” in the Blue Mountains; a healer who practiced white magic that he learned from an “old gray man” in the Netherlands; and a herbalist who claimed to have observed a mysterious forest dwarf deep in the woods of Berks County.

    In New England, we find that the fairies sometimes bestowed knowledge of the future on their favored people, just as they did on Ann. But this had nothing to do with witchcraft: I recently met a woman in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, whose Irish great-grandmother (called Mary Sullivan) claimed that “a banshee” had told her that a family member was about to die, suggesting that some New Englanders viewed the fairies as a source of hidden knowledge. In Southern Appalachia, folk healing sometimes intersected with older fairy traditions, even when people no longer openly believed in fairies as a coherent supernatural race. But such practices were clearly differentiated from witchcraft. These people most likely saw their skills as an attempt to counter the negative influence of witches.

    The one folktale I’ve come across in Appalachia where an ambiguous attitude toward witchcraft exists is “The Witchie Folk.” Originating in Scotland, this tale was collected in Pennsylvania but apparently took root originally in West Virginia. In this story, we find a fairylike community of “witchie” people who are first looked at with suspicion but are later embraced as sympathetic beings. Deriving their power from the moon, the witchie folk apparently represent a memory of the old Scottish openness toward fairies that once existed in early-modern Scottish folklore, something I discuss in greater detail in my book. The story also suggests that at least some Appalachians understood that the distinction between witches and folk healers could become slippery. Perhaps some people really did believe that the only effective defense against witchcraft was accessing the same powers feared in witches themselves.

    Rather than identifying as witches, most folk healers and seers like Ann—in Appalachia and England—identified as Christian and even performed their healings in the “name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.” Ann’s fairies justified their bestowal of special powers by referring to the scriptures. Where fairy traditions existed explicitly in Appalachia—such as in the tradition of naming staurolite crystals in Virginia, Georgia, and North Carolina “fairy stones”—these traditions had to be “Christened,” in this case by inventing a legend that would sanctify the naming tradition and turn the fairies, ostensibly, into “Christians.” Many of these themes—Christian fairy belief, folk healing, banshees, fairy stones, and the uneasy boundary between healing and witchcraft—are explored in my forthcoming book, Fairies of Northern Appalachia. There I trace how older fairy traditions survived, adapted, and sometimes disguised themselves in the mountains and borderlands of eastern North America.

    #AnnJefferies #Appalachia #banshee #christianity #Cornish #Fairies #Fairy #fairyStones #folklore #healing #history #Irish #Magic #NewEngland #NorthernAppalachia #witch #witchcraft #witches #WitchieFolk
  9. Movie TV Tech Geeks #TVFeatures #Banshee #Crime #Reacher 'Reacher' Fans Need To Binge This 10/10 Relentless Action Crime Series on HBO Max dlvr.it/TRj7br

  10. Terminal Exchanges: An AJ Docker and Banshee Thriller "Terminal Exchanges nails its objective and explodes on impact" Sale: $17.95 to $0.99 by Gary Gerlacher Rating: 4.7/5 (4,359 Reviews) #Booksky #Crime #Suspense #Banshee #Thriller #Books #Miami #ER #Mystery #Deals #Reading

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  11. Terminal Exchanges: An AJ Docker and Banshee Thriller "Terminal Exchanges nails its objective and explodes on impact" Sale: $17.95 to $0.99 by Gary Gerlacher Rating: 4.7/5 (4,359 Reviews) #Booksky #Crime #Suspense #Banshee #Thriller #Books #Miami #ER #Mystery #Deals #Reading

    Amazon.com

  12. Even Better than the Other One I liked!
    available to stream to listen to for 27 days

    Banshee (a series of modern #Banshee stories)

    2026-03-19 2245-2300

    ‘plus she can drive your getaway car faster than any'
    by Wendy Erskine
    Banshee

    ‘Banshee: Mythological Irish Women Retold’ is a spellbinding short story collection, edited by Ailbhe Malone, featuring original stories by Ireland’s most exciting female writers retelling ancient Irish myths from a modern perspective. Read by Roísín Gallagher (‘How To Get To Heaven From Belfast’ and ‘The Dry’).

    In these five abridged pieces of new writing from the collection, the stories of women who have too long stood in the shadows of warriors and kings are reclaimed in a celebration of womanhood and an homage to the ancient stories that still shape us.

    Featuring stories by Sheila O’Flanagan (‘The Honeymoon Affair’), Naoise Dolan (‘The Happy Couple’), Jane Casey (‘A Stranger in the family’), Wendy Erskine (‘The Benefactors’) and Megan Nolan (‘Ordinary Human Failings’).

    Reader: Roísín Gallagher
    Writer: Wendy Erskine
    Abridger: Rowan Routh
    Producer: Michael Shannon

    A BBC Audio Northern Ireland Production for BBC Radio 4.

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sr59

  13. Even Better than the Other One I liked!
    available to stream to listen to for 27 days

    Banshee (a series of modern #Banshee stories)

    2026-03-19 2245-2300

    ‘plus she can drive your getaway car faster than any'
    by Wendy Erskine
    Banshee

    ‘Banshee: Mythological Irish Women Retold’ is a spellbinding short story collection, edited by Ailbhe Malone, featuring original stories by Ireland’s most exciting female writers retelling ancient Irish myths from a modern perspective. Read by Roísín Gallagher (‘How To Get To Heaven From Belfast’ and ‘The Dry’).

    In these five abridged pieces of new writing from the collection, the stories of women who have too long stood in the shadows of warriors and kings are reclaimed in a celebration of womanhood and an homage to the ancient stories that still shape us.

    Featuring stories by Sheila O’Flanagan (‘The Honeymoon Affair’), Naoise Dolan (‘The Happy Couple’), Jane Casey (‘A Stranger in the family’), Wendy Erskine (‘The Benefactors’) and Megan Nolan (‘Ordinary Human Failings’).

    Reader: Roísín Gallagher
    Writer: Wendy Erskine
    Abridger: Rowan Routh
    Producer: Michael Shannon

    A BBC Audio Northern Ireland Production for BBC Radio 4.

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sr59

  14. Amazing! Get it while it's hot (by which I mean "available to stream to listen to)!

    Banshee (a series of modern #Banshee stories)

    2026-03-17 2245-2300

    The Swans by Naoise Dolan
    Banshee

    ‘Banshee: Mythological Irish Women Retold’ is a spellbinding short story collection, edited by Ailbhe Malone, featuring original stories by Ireland’s most exciting female writers retelling ancient Irish myths from a modern perspective. Read by Roísín Gallagher (‘How To Get To Heaven From Belfast’ and ‘The Dry’).

    In these five abridged pieces of new writing from the collection, the stories of women who have too long stood in the shadows of warriors and kings are reclaimed in a celebration of womanhood and an homage to the ancient stories that still shape us.

    Featuring stories by Sheila O’Flanagan (‘The Honeymoon Affair’), Naoise Dolan (‘The Happy Couple’), Jane Casey (‘A Stranger in the family’), Wendy Erskine (‘The Benefactors’) and Megan Nolan (‘Ordinary Human Failings’).

    Reader: Roísín Gallagher
    Writer: Naoise Dolan
    Abridger: Rowan Routh
    Producer: Michael Shannon

    A BBC Audio Northern Ireland Production for BBC Radio 4.

    Show less

    27 days left to listen

    14 minutes

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sn55

  15. Amazing! Get it while it's hot (by which I mean "available to stream to listen to)!

    Banshee (a series of modern #Banshee stories)

    2026-03-17 2245-2300

    The Swans by Naoise Dolan
    Banshee

    ‘Banshee: Mythological Irish Women Retold’ is a spellbinding short story collection, edited by Ailbhe Malone, featuring original stories by Ireland’s most exciting female writers retelling ancient Irish myths from a modern perspective. Read by Roísín Gallagher (‘How To Get To Heaven From Belfast’ and ‘The Dry’).

    In these five abridged pieces of new writing from the collection, the stories of women who have too long stood in the shadows of warriors and kings are reclaimed in a celebration of womanhood and an homage to the ancient stories that still shape us.

    Featuring stories by Sheila O’Flanagan (‘The Honeymoon Affair’), Naoise Dolan (‘The Happy Couple’), Jane Casey (‘A Stranger in the family’), Wendy Erskine (‘The Benefactors’) and Megan Nolan (‘Ordinary Human Failings’).

    Reader: Roísín Gallagher
    Writer: Naoise Dolan
    Abridger: Rowan Routh
    Producer: Michael Shannon

    A BBC Audio Northern Ireland Production for BBC Radio 4.

    Show less

    27 days left to listen

    14 minutes

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sn55

  16. Lee's 'More Glimpses' includes a great first-hand description of a banshee from 17th Century Limerick in #Ireland. The witness was one Lady Fanshaw. I shall write it out verbatim, because it's worth it, but I don't think the thread will be terribly long. [Cont: #PhantomsFriday #banshee #folklore

  17. Lee's 'More Glimpses' includes a great first-hand description of a banshee from 17th Century Limerick in #Ireland. The witness was one Lady Fanshaw. I shall write it out verbatim, because it's worth it, but I don't think the thread will be terribly long. [Cont: #PhantomsFriday #banshee #folklore

  18. Timelapse Video - Irish Mythology - Bean Síde - Banshee  
    Handmade Pyrography Art with Ogham

    prometheus-pyrography.web.app

    youtu.be/yjWYwDVgM0o?si=DehvPG

    This piece is a handmade pyrography artwork inspired by early Irish mythology and folklore. The Irish text and accompanying Ogham (Tree Alphabet) have been carefully translated and laid out with attention to historical authenticity and meaning.

    #Irish #Ireland #Timelapse #Timelapseart #mythology #banshee #pyrography #handmade #handmadeart

  19. The metadata in the database powering Apple Music is notoriously poor.

    Occasionally, it works in my favour. For example, when the apps that surface new music by artists I already have in my library feed me a new release from a different band with the same name as one in my library.

    Another artist named Banshee is the latest example. I like their new album.

    Apple Music: music.apple.com/gb/album/the-s

    Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/3PFaFQF

    #Music #Banshee

  20. The metadata in the database powering Apple Music is notoriously poor.

    Occasionally, it works in my favour. For example, when the apps that surface new music by artists I already have in my library feed me a new release from a different band with the same name as one in my library.

    Another artist named Banshee is the latest example. I like their new album.

    Apple Music: music.apple.com/gb/album/the-s

    Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/3PFaFQF

    #Music #Banshee

  21. The banshee! Coming from Irish and Scottish mythology, the banshee is a mourning female spirit of the Fair Folk, usually either an old woman or a beautiful youth, which keening was said to be able to predict the death of one of the family members of a family.

    #Chibi #Myth #Spirits #TraditionalArt #Banshee

  22. The banshee! Coming from Irish and Scottish mythology, the banshee is a mourning female spirit of the Fair Folk, usually either an old woman or a beautiful youth, which keening was said to be able to predict the death of one of the family members of a family.

    #Chibi #Myth #Spirits #TraditionalArt #Banshee

  23. Forgot to update on Sunday that I posted some old art on #patreon as a free reward!

    You can join for free just to keep up with the Joneses and see WIPS along with some old art even if you're not dedicated to spending monies on a sub! 🔗below

    #ocart #art #embry #spider #banshee

  24. The banshee in Ireland straddles the realms of ghosts and the fae, often seen as a spirit warning of impending death. Originating from tragic female figures, the banshee embodies both human emotions and supernatural qualities. #banshee #irishfolklore connectparanormal.net/2026/01/

  25. The banshee in Ireland straddles the realms of ghosts and the fae, often seen as a spirit warning of impending death. Originating from tragic female figures, the banshee embodies both human emotions and supernatural qualities. #banshee #irishfolklore connectparanormal.net/2026/01/

  26. 364 - Chaos War: X-Men #1 - 12/29/10

    A rare (the only?) Thunderbird/Banshee solo joint, born of them both being dead at the time.

    Cover by Carlo Pagulayan. Interiors by Louise Simonson, Chris Claremont & Doug Braithwaite

    #XmenADay #XMen50 #XMen #ChaosWar #Thunderbird #Banshee

  27. 359 - Uncanny X-Men (vol. 3) #29 - 12/24/2014

    The gang's all here in this Marvel 75th variant!

    Cover by Alex Ross. Interiors by Brian Michael Bendis & Chris Bachalo.

    #XmenADay #XMen50 #XMen #UncannyXMenV3 #Colossus #Wolverine #Storm #Nightcrawler #Banshee #Sunfire #Thunderbird

  28. 354 - Uncanny X-Men #401 - 12/18/2001

    All else aside, I love the gag of putting Banshee on the cover of the silent issue.

    Cover by Ron Garney. Interiors by Joe Casey & Garney.

    #XmenADay #XMen50 #XMen #UncannyXMen #Banshee

  29. #Banshee (2013-2016)
    An ex-con assumes the identity of a murdered sheriff in the small town of Banshee, Pennsylvania, where he has some unfinished business.
    #TVThemeTunes #TVIntros #TVMastodon 📺 🎬

  30. #Banshee (2013-2016)
    An ex-con assumes the identity of a murdered sheriff in the small town of Banshee, Pennsylvania, where he has some unfinished business.
    #TVThemeTunes #TVIntros #TVMastodon 📺 🎬

  31. Celebrating the book's 1 year anniversary (but not really, because "Age of Apocalypse") with the debut of Emplate's Hellions.

    Cover by Chris Bachalo. Interiors by Scott Lobdell,
    Todd DeZago & Tom Grummett

    #XmenADay #XMen50 #XMen #GenerationX #Banshee

  32. 347 - X-Men #119 - 12/12/1978

    Only missing Thunderbird! I believe this is the only time we've gotten that close on a cover.

    Cover by Dave Cockrum. Interiors by Chris Claremont & John Byrne

    #XmenADay #XMen50 #XMen #Colossus #Storm #Nightcrawler #Banshee #Wolverine #Sunfire