{"id":805,"date":"2008-12-01T01:10:45","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T05:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=761"},"modified":"2008-11-24T15:56:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T19:56:01","slug":"faeries-elves-and-other-kin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2008\/12\/01\/faeries-elves-and-other-kin\/","title":{"rendered":"Faeries, Elves, and Other Kin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Faeries, Elves, and Other Kin: The Woman of Peace and the Spirit of the Air (Bean sidhe (Banshee)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Announcing mortal\u2019s deaths with her keening cries<\/p>\n

Piercing throughout the night rising and falling like the oceans waves<\/p>\n

White Lady of Sorrow spirit of the air<\/p>\n

Mourning and forewarning the ancient Celts and their decedents with her unearthly cries<\/p>\n

Woman of peace, her voice blending in with the mournful cries of loved ones left behind<\/p>\n

The Faery woman contrasts against the nights black skies<\/p>\n

Eyes red from crying, her face pale<\/p>\n

Cloaked in a raiment of grayish-white clinging to her tall slender frame<\/p>\n

Her hair of silver and gray streaming down to the ground<\/p>\n

Yet in all her mourning she is graced with a mode peace<\/p>\n

Unseen she attends the rites of the beloved deceased<\/p>\n

Where ever the old Irish families have gone across oceans and land<\/p>\n

She follows her mortal family never forgetting her ties of blood to man.<\/p>\n

~ Michele Burke (2008).<\/em><\/p>\n

Whatever the Banshees origins, in one of three different guises she appears: a raddled old hag, a young woman, or a stately matron. It is in these guises that the triple aspects of the Celtic goddess of death and war, i.e. Macha, Badhbh, and Mor-Rioghain.) She is usually seen wearing either a winding sheet or grave robe of the unshriven dead, or a grey hooded cloak The Scottish counterpart of th banshee may also emerge as a washer-woman, and is apparently seen \u201cwashing the blood stained clothes of those who are about to die. In this guise she is known as the bean-nighe (washing woman)\u201d (Hidden Ireland, n.d.).<\/p>\n

Coming In December:<\/em><\/p>\n

Water-Faeries:\u00a0 providers of food, nourishes of crops, and takers of lives.<\/p>\n

Bibliography and works cited:<\/p>\n

Hidden Ireland, (n.d.). The Banshee. Retrieved November 24, 2008, from<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.irelandseye.com\/animation\/explorer\/banshee.html <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Faeries, Elves, and Other Kin: The Woman of Peace and the Spirit of the Air (Bean sidhe (Banshee) Announcing mortal\u2019s deaths with her keening cries Piercing throughout the night rising and falling like the oceans waves White Lady of Sorrow spirit of the air Mourning and forewarning the ancient Celts and their decedents with her unearthly cries Woman of peace, her voice blending in with the mournful cries of loved ones left behind The Faery woman contrasts against the nights black skies Eyes red from crying, her face pale Cloaked in a raiment of grayish-white clinging to her tall slender frame Her hair of silver and gray streaming down to the ground Yet in all her mourning she is graced with a mode peace Unseen she attends the rites of the beloved deceased Where ever the old Irish families have gone across oceans and land She follows her mortal family never forgetting her ties of blood to man. ~ Michele Burke (2008). Whatever the Banshees origins, in one of three different guises she appears: a raddled old hag, a young woman, or a stately matron. It is in these guises that the triple aspects of the Celtic goddess of death and war, i.e. Macha, Badhbh, and Mor-Rioghain.) She is usually seen wearing either a winding sheet or grave robe of the unshriven dead, or a grey hooded cloak The Scottish counterpart of th banshee may also emerge as a washer-woman, and is apparently seen \u201cwashing the blood stained clothes of those who are about to die. In this guise she is known as the bean-nighe (washing woman)\u201d (Hidden Ireland, n.d.). Coming In December: Water-Faeries:\u00a0 providers of food, nourishes of crops, and takers of lives. Bibliography and works cited: Hidden Ireland, (n.d.). The Banshee. Retrieved November 24, 2008, from http:\/\/www.irelandseye.com\/animation\/explorer\/banshee.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}