Mooretoons

We finally arrive at Fetch’s mom’s house. What else but a Banshee would you expect hanging around a sick old woman’s place? My portrayal here deviates a bit from standard representations of the banshee, as noted by Clanagh Design: 

The Banshee comes in three possible guises depending on who you talk to or where the stories come from. More often that not she is a crouching hag with a horrible wrinkly face, although in other stories she is a beautiful, ethereal young woman or a stately matron type. In yet more stories she is referred to as the ghost of a murdered woman or a woman who died in childbirth. The three typical guises of the Banshee may respresent the three aspects of the Celtic goddess of war and death; Badhbh, Macha and Mor-Rioghain.

In almost all cases, the Banshee has long silver hair that she is sometimes seen brushing with a comb. For this reason, some people would never pick up a comb lying on the ground for fear of being taken away by fairies. She wears a grey hooded cloak or the white sheet or grave robe of the dead, and her eyes are red from crying. Many believe that she can in fact take on any of the above forms and change from one to the other as she pleases.

I picture her as a professional mourner, an aging pagan hippie woman who performs a ritual service for the dying. As for her warning, I cribbed it from somewhere, but lost my notes. 

Meanwhile Fetch will continue to schlub around in his college tee shirt.

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