#bean sidhe

"The Banshee is really a disembodied soul, that of one who, in life, was strongly attached to the family, or who had good reason to hate all its members. Thus in different instances, the Banshee's song may be inspired by different motives. When the Banshee loves those whom she calls, the song is a low, soft chant, giving notice, indeed, of the close proximity of the angel of death, but with tenderness of tone that reassures the one destined to die and comforts the survivors; rather a welcome than a warning......."

Legend of the Banshee, 1892.

Illustration from 'The World of Romance. A treasury of tales, legends and traditions'.

thank you to @saintedseraph! i'm tagging @interroblog, @ijustwritehonestly, @trixies-show, @italiangothicwriteblr, @meerawrites, @wintherlywords your words are: breathe, sunlight, grief, rain my words were: dark, light, dawn, and dusk! DARK

"After that, I didn’t dare cry. I squashed down all the messiest of my feelings and emotions and sequestered them away. It was not easy, but neither was the heartache. So, I kept them all in a safe, dark place within myself. It was dangerous to possess feelings, so I didn’t. I’ve come to believe that there is something dark, something inherently wrong, that lies just below the surface of my skin. It permeates the lining of my organs and chokes them out until they are cancerous, calcified relics of the little laughing girl I barely remember." - bean sidhe WIP

LIGHT

"It was quiet when they stepped outside. With its enormous green rings, the larger-than-life moon took up much of the sky. On the opposite horizon, the first tendrils of sunlight were peeking over. It cast the garden with strange pockets of both shadow and morning light. There was still a chill in the air. V was correct—it was a peaceful place to think and have the opportunity to soothe her fears." - Earth Enduring

DAWN

"In the dawn haze, his form looked more human than ever—more like her. Hannah pinned her focus to his furry, ridiculous ears and used them to ground herself. He might be different from her physically, but he still understood her human need for presence more than platitudes." - Earth Enduring

DUSK

In one of them, I remember coming across a bit of banshee folklore that according to some people, a banshee's scream could put some people to sleep for a very long time.

I have ALWAYS wanted to use this in a story as a means of sending a character to the future, a la Rip Van Winkle, except for one problem.

I've never been able to find the book again, or even any mention of any such folklore on the internet, because I both don't trust my memory to have gotten that 100% correctly, and I also want the coroboration, because that is such a little known bit of folklore, if I'm even remembering accurately!, that I want to be able to point at a source and say see! I'm not just pulling shit out of my ass!