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dundee	Posted: 31-Oct-2008, 11:59 AM
Celtic Guardian Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 1,176 Joined: 01-Aug-2003 Zodiac: Reed	happy hollow wenie <----this is a link dont forget to stomp -------------------- jim www.greyaengus.com "If I say something that can be interpreted in two ways, and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, I meant it the other way." often in error, never in doubt. if guns kill people then my pencil mis-spells words quote: larry the cable guy sometimes what ya think ya want isnt what ya thought ya wanted till ya get what ya thought ya wanted and then what ya had is gone....

Rindy	Posted: 31-Oct-2008, 12:19 PM
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ctbard	Posted: 31-Oct-2008, 12:39 PM
Celtic Guardian Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 497 Joined: 07-Feb-2008 Zodiac: Alder Realm: Connecticut	Yes, Happy Samhain and Halloween to everyone also! -------------------- The devil whispered behind the leaves, it's pretty but is it art? Rudyard Kipling

gaberlunzie	Posted: 31-Oct-2008, 12:57 PM
Celtic Guardian Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 6,958 Joined: 31-Aug-2003 Zodiac: Vine	Happy Halloween and Blessed Samhain! -------------------- "Now here's my secret", said the fox, "it is very simple. It is only with ones heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye." ("The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery) "The soul would have no rainbow, if the eye had no tears." (Native American Proverb)

Camac	Posted: 31-Oct-2008, 01:16 PM
Guest Main: Registration Questions: Help Important: Rules Messages: Search Zodiac:	Happy Samhuinn and may you never hear the Bansith. Camac.

RebeccaAnn	Posted: 31-Oct-2008, 01:45 PM
Celtic Guardian Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 535 Joined: 17-Mar-2007 Zodiac: Hawthorn Realm: Southren Illinois	Happy Halloween and Harvest Festival. Carmac please what is a Bansith? I know the banshee and the pucca but I know not this one. RebeccaAnn

InRi	Posted: 31-Oct-2008, 01:47 PM
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stoirmeil

Posted: 31-Oct-2008, 02:24 PM

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QUOTE (RebeccaAnn @ 31-Oct-2008, 02:45 PM)

please what is a Bansith?

There are many variant spellings for the word banshee, and this is one. Ban sidhe, "woman of the fairies". Associated with the divide between life and death -- as in this interesting piece of lore about foxglove or digitalis which, with much experience and prudent care, was once used to make a weak heart beat more strongly:

Digitalis purpurea - Foxglove
Lus nam bansith (Fairy woman's plant) - [Gaelic]

Foxglove is a striking plant of shady woodlands and disturbed areas. The heart regulating drug digitalis, which has been in use for at least 250 years, is extracted from this plant. The 'Pharmacopoeia Edinburgensis', a medical text from 1730s Edinburgh, lists this plant as amongst those found in apothecaries (early pharmacies) in Scotland, and states that the leaves were the main parts used.

The Gaelic name given above, Lus nam bansith refers to the fact that this plant has had long associations with the faerie folk, or shidhe, as they are known in Gaelic (hence, in English we have 'folk's glove' - the glove of the little people). There is an account from the 1620s of a woman tried for witchcraft for her supposed associations with the faerie folk. She was supposed to have killed a child by poisoning it with foxglove. A more likely scenario was that she was a healer and was unable to dose her cure correctly, resulting in the death.

References:

* Darwin, T. (1996) The Scots Herbal. Mercat Press, Edinburgh.
* Shaw, P. (1730) Pharmacopoeia Edinburgensis. William Innys, London.

A blessed samhain, with your loved ones safe around you and your departed ones peaceably welcome in your heart.

Camac	Posted: 31-Oct-2008, 02:46 PM
Guest Main: Registration Questions: Help Important: Rules Messages: Search Zodiac:	stoirmeil; According to Dwelly's Scots Gaelic to English Dictionary, The Bansith is a Female Fairy that Highlanders of old believed the wailings of this being were heard before a Chiertains Death. If she made an appearance she was dressed in a green mantel and had dishevelled hair. She is the Irish Banshee. Camac.

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QUOTE (Camac @ 31-Oct-2008, 03:46 PM)

stoirmeil;
According to Dwelly's Scots Gaelic to English Dictionary, The Bansith is a Female Fairy that Highlanders of old believed the wailings of this being were heard before a Chiertains Death. If she made an appearance she was dressed in a green mantel and had dishevelled hair. She is the Irish Banshee.

Camac.

http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/f...ey/chapter2.htm

http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Banshee

She seems to have some little differences in the legend between theScots and the Irish -- I have also read of her being a washerwoman beating bloody garments on the bank of a stream, seen on the eve of battle, in the Scots lore. I don't think I had read that certain great clans have their own dark keening ladies, as this interesting article states, but it seems to fit.

Some equate her with, or have the legend of the banshee descended from, the Morrigan:
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/m/morrigan.html
http://www.druidry.org/obod/deities/morrigan.html
http://www.maryjones.us/jce/morrigan.html
This last site of Mary Jones deserves a long, leisurely exploration. She is a real scholar.

Good tales for the hearth at the dark of the year -- still, peace and comfort to everyone in the memory of our departed.

Harlot	Posted: 31-Oct-2008, 04:14 PM
Celtic Guardian Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 1,069 Joined: 29-Mar-2008 Zodiac: Ivy Realm: Southern Michiagn USA	Trick or Treat smell my feet Give me something good to eat!! Happy Halloween everyone. My son sends his greetings Blessed Samhain -------------------- Hopes are towers in the skies Dreams are wings taking flight The Boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best Shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends and the other begins SLAINTE

dundee	Posted: 31-Oct-2008, 04:31 PM
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flora	Posted: 31-Oct-2008, 04:39 PM
Celtic Guardian Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 896 Joined: 18-Jul-2006 Zodiac: Ash Realm: Tangerine, Florida	Nobody told me I couldn't do it. Very Nice sight. Flora -------------------- "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. K. Gibran In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. John Muir "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves." John Muir

flora	Posted: 31-Oct-2008, 04:42 PM
Celtic Guardian Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 896 Joined: 18-Jul-2006 Zodiac: Ash Realm: Tangerine, Florida	Happy Halloween everyone and may you get first choice in your children's/grandchrildren's treats! Flora

Harlot	Posted: 31-Oct-2008, 04:42 PM
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