Anyone who has ever seen the Walt Disney film Darby O’Gill and the Little People as a child has undoubtedly carried with them one memory of the film buried in their subconscious and often trying to break through to their conscious mind. form them. I’m talking, of course, about the Banshee, and even though that movie was remade before Sean Connery’s Irish Brogue, it didn’t make him nearly as dark, let alone long before anyone ever thought about CGI, perhaps that special effect. scariest in kids movies to that point. It was a pity, of course, that he was a little older than the cousin of mercy, who thought it the height of humor to cry out for a banshee whenever we were in the dark of night. Funny guy. His name is Chris. He lives from the west. And when he was born free, he was beaten.
Banshee doesn’t carry a recognizable name like a leprechaun, but as far as Irish mythology goes, it’s second only to . a man The word banshee itself derives from the Irish term bean sídhe which roughly translates to female fairy. If you return in time enough, before St. Patrick comes, and clears the Emerald Isle of snakes and children, you will not wait to find the blight of the Piper-Vis, the terminus of the pre-Christian days of Gaelic glory. sidh, which were the form of the gods. It was a tradition that when an Irishman passed a village a woman was called to sing a lamentation. This lament is one of those long names Irish has a curious absence of appropriate consonants and since probably could not figure out how the cannons would announce orders from Alberto Gonzales, I will only get to the meat. The women who were called upon to serve to honor death at funerals were often called the most zealous. Of course, even in rural and woolly Ireland, such were the distinctions of class and legend that persisted, so that in the funerals of certain Irish families, with long traditions and special treatment, it is not necessarily more important to sing a lament, but more. the nymph herself, a sidh. Such was the connection between these noble Irish families that the death of a family member was heralded far away by the song of a sad little woman.
The Banshee, like many tales, seems to have been a corruption of pre-Christian and Christian folk-tales. It seems that the intermingling of stories mythological about sidhs and other supernatural creatures as the wailing song of a fairy woman not only became the harbinger of death for one of the most famous families but there is a prodigy of death in one’s own family. Finally, as a sign of one’s own death, if one is unlucky enough to hear the song of the banshee. This is the kind of terrible symmetry that the sidh, who was now called the banshee, began to take. There is much in popular literature that suggests that the banshee’s ancestor has some mermaid blood in it. Banshees are often seen all dressed in misty and flowing white, with long hair that also appears as light as white. Apparently, banshees are quite conscious of their appearance, as most reports indicate, they appear to wash their long, flowing hair with a silver comb. The hair flowing here is thought by many to have taken its origin from the same face that the Nereids had in the water. One interesting element to this piece of the banshee story is the fear of not being afraid that if you happen to be taking a long walk through the magnificent green fields of the Irish countryside and you happen to meet a silver comb. He was lying on the ground. If you happen to find a beautiful silver comb in the green grass, turn and walk away. Do not, of course, take it, because the moment you do, the banshee will appear and take it away.
