#Celitc

2025-03-02

The bean-nighe (Scottish Gaelic for "washerwoman") or "Washer at the Ford" is a Scottish fairy and omen of death. She appears as an old woman at some desolate stream or pool, where she is washing the blood from the grave clothes of someone who will soon die.
🎨 Katherine Soutar

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A bean-nighe washes bloody clothes in a stream. Image by Katherine Soutar.

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