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Substantial evidence points toward banshees being members of the fairy folk rather than human ghosts. The very etymology of bean sí explicitly links these beings to the sídhe, the fairy folk who dwell in the ancient mounds and hills of Ireland. #banshees https://fairyland.blog/post/812323096845549568/banshees-fairies-not-ghosts-on-the-other-hand
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Substantial evidence points toward banshees being members of the fairy folk rather than human ghosts. The very etymology of bean sí explicitly links these beings to the sídhe, the fairy folk who dwell in the ancient mounds and hills of Ireland. #banshees https://fairyland.blog/post/812323096845549568/banshees-fairies-not-ghosts-on-the-other-hand
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@Starcade It's hard for me to come up with a list of movies that I "hate" or that are my "least favorites" because I usually pre-select them out so that I do not end up watching any such movies.
For me, the list would be :movies that I started to watch but couldn't finish" (which are movies that I usually turn off w/in the 1st 10-15 minutes).
Off the top of my head these are a few of them:
1) #GrandBudapestHotel (2014)
2) #InBruges (2008) not sure I could watch #Banshees but not this one.
3) #Her (2013)
4) #AfterYang (2021)
5) #HomeAlone (1990)
6) #OBrotherWhereArtThou (2000)
7) #MenWhoStareAtGoats (2009)
8) #TheTerminal (2004)
9) #TicketToParadise (2022)
10) #BillyMadison (1995)It's no surprise that certain actors are featured in more than one of these but that doesn't mean I don't like other movies of theirs.
There is also a long list of movies that I like (or at least don't hate) that I've seen & rewatched in their entirely many times over. 🤷♂️
There's no accounting for "taste." 😉
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The banshee in Irish folklore straddles the realms of ghosts and fairies, often seen as a spirit warning of impending death. #banshees #ghosts #fairies https://youtu.be/re_gM4soeKI?si=6PZda5xtgXMPmHk-
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The banshee in Irish folklore straddles the realms of ghosts and fairies, often seen as a spirit warning of impending death. #banshees #ghosts #fairies https://youtu.be/re_gM4soeKI?si=6PZda5xtgXMPmHk-
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Spirituality & Religious Studies @spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com@spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com ·Banshees
A banshee (Bean si in Modern Irish & ben side, in Old Irish, meaning “woman of the fairy mound,” or “fairy woman”) is a female spirit in Irish folklore who heralds the death of a family member. She usually does this by screaming, wailing, shrieking, or keening. Keening is a traditional form of vocal lament for the dead in the Gaelic Celtic tradition. This is known to have taken place in Ireland & Scotland.
Banshees are strongly associated with specific Irish families. The belief is that the banshee is a family spirit attached to a particular lineage. Her mournful wail/cry is heard only by family members as a warning of an imminent death.
Another of the banshee characteristics is their unwavering attachment to certain Gaelic families such as the O’Neills, O’Brians, O’Connors, O’Grady, & Kavanaghs, among others. Some traditions hold that the banshee is the ghost. This is perhaps a mother of a famous poet/singer from the family who died tragically. In this sense, she’s an ancestral spirit tied to the bloodline & the land.
She appears or is heard only to mourn & warn the family of an impending death. Often before anyone has received news of it. This direct, specific role makes her an inherently familiar guardian or omen for that clan/family.
They aren’t family pets, the banshees presence is a known, if terrifying, part of the family’s history & destiny, linking her fate to theirs across generations.
A banshee is an autonomous entity, a powerful fairy-woman (bean sidhe) or ghost, isn’t under the control of any living person.
Sometimes she has long streaming hair, which she may be seen combing, with some legends specifying she can only be keen while combing her hair. She wears a gray cloak over a green dress. Her eyes are red from continual weeping. She’s sometimes dressed in white with red hair & a ghastly complexion.
In Ireland & parts of Scotland, a traditional part of mourning is the keening woman (bean chaointe), who wails a lament. This keening woman may be a professional, in some cases. The best Keeners would be in high demand.
Irish legends talks about a lament being sung by a fairy woman, or banshee. She would sing it when a family member died or was about to die. Even if the person had died far away & news of their death hasn’t come yet. In those cases, her wailing would be the 1st warning the household had of the death.
The banshee is also a predictor of death. If someone is about to enter a situation where it’s unlikely they’ll come out alive, she’ll warn people by screaming/wailing. This gives rise to the banshee also being known as a wailing woman. The banshee was also linked with the death coach. The banshee is said to either summon the death coach with her keening or travel in tandem with it.
When several banshees show up at 1 time, it usually indicates the death of someone holy or great. The story sometimes tells that the woman (though called a fairy) was a ghost. She’s often a specific murdered woman, or a man who passed away in childbirth.
In some parts of Leinster, she’s referred to as the bean chaointe or ban nigheachain (“little washerwoman”) or nigheag na h-ath (“little washer at the ford”). She’s seen washing bloodstained clothes or armor of those who are about to die.
In Welsh folklore, there’s also a similar being known as the cyhyraeth. The cyhyraeth gives a disembodied moaning voice before the person’s passing.
Some sources suggest that the banshees Laments only the descendants of pure Milesian stock of Ireland. The Milesians were the final race to settle in Ireland. The original belief appears to be associated with a number of ancient Irish families. According to tradition, a banshee wouldn’t lament or visit someone of Saxon or Norman descent or those who came to Ireland later.
Most, not all, of the last names associated with banshees have the “O” or “Mc/Mac” prefix. That means people with the last names of Goidelic origin. This means a family native to the Insular Celtic lands. Rather than those of the Norse, Anglo-Saxon, or Norman.
There are some exceptions to the banshee lore. A banshee may lament a person who’s been gifted with music & song.
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#AngloSaxon #BanNigheachain #Banshees #BeanChaointe #BeanNighe #BeanSi #beanSidhe #BenSide #Celtic #Cyhyraeth #DeathCoach #Gaelic #Goidelic #InsularCeltic #Ireland #IrishFolklore #Kavanaghs #keening #KeeningWoman #Milesian #ModernIrish #Norman #Norse #OBrians #OConnors #OGrady #ONeills #OldIrish #Poet #Saxon #Scotland #ScottishFolklore #Singer #WelshFolklore
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#FairyTaleTuesday ⛰️ #CapeBretonNS
Irish settlers said #Fairies danced on Cape Breton’s barren peaks, hiding gold in rocky hills, while #Banshees wailed on dry ridges, warning of doom.
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: Tobereevul („Well of Aeval”): #Ireland has many ancient goddesses who come into literature and folklore as #Fairy Queens. Among the most famous is #Aeval, connected with the southwestern region of #Munster and specifically with a #airy mount at Killaloe in east Co. Clare, near which a well called Tobereevul (“well of Aeval”) gushes from beneath the crag Craganeevul (“rock of Aeval”); she is also associated with the mountain Slieve Bernaugh, where she was said to have lived.
Her name means “beautiful” or “the lovely one,” but her behavior was more threatening than loving. Queen of the two-dozen #banshees of the region whose appearance predicted death, she appeared as a Washer at the Ford before disasters like the defeat of the historical hero Brian Boru; she was especially connected with the O’Brien family. Aeval judged the famous Midnight Court of the poet Brian Merriman, in which prudish Irishmen were found guilty of not being satisfactory lovers. Her rival was the sea fairy Clídna, who turned Aeval into a white cat.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
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Nua-#CelticSoulJourney in #Ireland: Tobereevul („Well of Aeval”): #Ireland has many ancient goddesses who come into literature and folklore as #Fairy Queens. Among the most famous is #Aeval, connected with the southwestern region of #Munster and specifically with a #airy mount at Killaloe in east Co. Clare, near which a well called Tobereevul (“well of Aeval”) gushes from beneath the crag Craganeevul (“rock of Aeval”); she is also associated with the mountain Slieve Bernaugh, where she was said to have lived.
Her name means “beautiful” or “the lovely one,” but her behavior was more threatening than loving. Queen of the two-dozen #banshees of the region whose appearance predicted death, she appeared as a Washer at the Ford before disasters like the defeat of the historical hero Brian Boru; she was especially connected with the O’Brien family. Aeval judged the famous Midnight Court of the poet Brian Merriman, in which prudish Irishmen were found guilty of not being satisfactory lovers. Her rival was the sea fairy Clídna, who turned Aeval into a white cat.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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photocredit 1. Neu-Kelte
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compare https://youtu.be/vgAujpyDyTM "Cities in Dust" by Garbage, released recently, with https://youtu.be/7Ud_wo_h04w "Cities in Dust" by Siouxsie live on 03/05/2023.
#Garbage #siouxsie #SiouxsieSioux #SiouxsieAndTheBanshees #banshees
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compare https://youtu.be/vgAujpyDyTM "Cities in Dust" by Garbage, released recently, with https://youtu.be/7Ud_wo_h04w "Cities in Dust" by Siouxsie live on 03/05/2023.
#Garbage #siouxsie #SiouxsieSioux #SiouxsieAndTheBanshees #banshees
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Listen to Garbage's cover of Siouxsie and the Banshees' Cities in Dust
#music #Banshees #Garbagerockband #rockmusic
@Long_live_rock_n_roll @historyofpunkrock
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Well, neither of my #Irish #Oscars favorites, The #Banshees of #Inisherin or #TheQuietGirl, won on Sunday night, but if you also saw and loved them, then see my article below for a comparative interpretation of the two.
This was a very personal piece for me, as indeed was the experience of watching The Quiet Girl especially. Blessed be all those who become a nurturing daddy to children they did not father:
https://www.popmatters.com/quiet-girl-banshees-inisherin-incel -
Well, neither of my #Irish #Oscars favorites, The #Banshees of #Inisherin or #TheQuietGirl, won on Sunday night, but if you also saw and loved them, then see my article below for a comparative interpretation of the two.
This was a very personal piece for me, as indeed was the experience of watching The Quiet Girl especially. Blessed be all those who become a nurturing daddy to children they did not father:
https://www.popmatters.com/quiet-girl-banshees-inisherin-incel -
Watching The #Banshees of Inisherin for a second time, after seeing #TheQuietGirl (An Cailín Ciúin), I was struck by certain tragic parallels between the protagonist of the latter and Dominic, the policeman's son (played by #BarryKeoghan), from the former.
I wrote up my thoughts in the following essay, an appeal to bring nurture where needed:
https://www.popmatters.com/quiet-girl-banshees-inisherin-incel#MartinMcDonagh #ColmBairéad #ColinFarrell #BrendanGleeson #KerryCondon #CatherineClinch #Cinema #Oscars #Ireland @TG4TV
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Watching The #Banshees of Inisherin for a second time, after seeing #TheQuietGirl (An Cailín Ciúin), I was struck by certain tragic parallels between the protagonist of the latter and Dominic, the policeman's son (played by #BarryKeoghan), from the former.
I wrote up my thoughts in the following essay, an appeal to bring nurture where needed:
https://www.popmatters.com/quiet-girl-banshees-inisherin-incel#MartinMcDonagh #ColmBairéad #ColinFarrell #BrendanGleeson #KerryCondon #CatherineClinch #Cinema #Oscars #Ireland @TG4TV
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Here’s another vote for the amazing “The banshees of Inisherin” movie.
It was glorious, touching, brutal, funny and didn’t have a neat ending. The actor who played Dominic was utterly outstanding. #Banshees #BansheesOfInisherin
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The Banshees of Inisherin gave the two main actors lots of great scenes together, but I didn’t much care for it. However, I couldn’t say why, exactly, except that it was heavy handed and rather vacuous at the same time. This bothered me. I was worried I might have missed something, so I was happy to read this piece in Slate. It not only confirmed my initial reaction, but also helped me understand what about the film had made me feel that way.
https://slate.com/culture/2023/01/martin-mcdonagh-irish-banshees-inisherin-blarney.html
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The Banshees of Inisherin gave the two main actors lots of great scenes together, but I didn’t much care for it. However, I couldn’t say why, exactly, except that it was heavy handed and rather vacuous at the same time. This bothered me. I was worried I might have missed something, so I was happy to read this piece in Slate. It not only confirmed my initial reaction, but also helped me understand what about the film had made me feel that way.
https://slate.com/culture/2023/01/martin-mcdonagh-irish-banshees-inisherin-blarney.html
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I’ve been after McGeoch’s, Severin’s and Budgie’s sigs for years (having just recently gotten hold of Siouxsie’s sig). So, to find all four of the Classic Banshees lineups’ sigs on a white label test pressing of ‘Fireworks’.. how could I say no? .. and at a very reasonable price too. #siouxsie #banshees #punk
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I’ve been after McGeoch’s, Severin’s and Budgie’s sigs for years (having just recently gotten hold of Siouxsie’s sig). So, to find all four of the Classic Banshees lineups’ sigs on a white label test pressing of ‘Fireworks’.. how could I say no? .. and at a very reasonable price too. #siouxsie #banshees #punk
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Tis a wonderful year for Irish #film, with at least two contributions that offer up the occasion for truly rich #emotional #experiences. The first for me was The #Banshees of Inisherin, mused on already here:
https://mastodon.social/@WorldImagining/109526132684140602The other, now nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the #Oscars is this heart-breakingly beautiful Irish language film, An Cailín Ciúin, #TheQuietGirl. A very sincere 'go raibh maith agaimh' to all involved in creating it.
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Tis a wonderful year for Irish #film, with at least two contributions that offer up the occasion for truly rich #emotional #experiences. The first for me was The #Banshees of Inisherin, mused on already here:
https://mastodon.social/@WorldImagining/109526132684140602The other, now nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the #Oscars is this heart-breakingly beautiful Irish language film, An Cailín Ciúin, #TheQuietGirl. A very sincere 'go raibh maith agaimh' to all involved in creating it.
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@SaltiredPopcorn I loved Banshees too. What surprised me was that I thought the best character and actor, was neither of the two leads, but Barry Keoghan as Dominic. Brilliant performance. Hope he gets an award or two for it! #film #banshees #keoghan #irish
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Been waiting on The Banshees of Inisherin since before it was shot - and the anticipation was worth it. An instant classic.
At least a best picture nom for McDonagh, and probably a win for Barry Keoghan as best supporting actor. Other nominations/wins too I’m sure. Farrell as best actor wouldn’t be a poor choice. Wish there’d been a role for Chris O’Dowd in it.
#film #oscars #gleeson #farrell #mcdonagh #ireland #irish #movies #banshees #inisherin -
Tonight my only Banshees vinyl not re-released. I remember how much the sleeves smelled on this one.
I do enjoy listening to my original records. Those pops and crackles are history.
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Movie 26/52 for 2022. I liked this a lot and Colin Farrell is brilliant in it. Also enjoyed West of Ireland location spotting. Felt it didn't quite explain why the Gleeson character was being such a bollox. Though maybe simply living on an island off Ireland in the 1920s was more than enough explanation in itself #banshees #inisherin #movies
