In Irish folk tradition the long hair of the banshee is often cited. Older rural Irish women wore hair covered, unless when keening and mourning, when it would be loose, providing one explanation of why long strewn hair is so common for the death-messenger...

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In Irish folklore the banshee modern Irish bean sí, is defined as "woman of the fairy mound" or "fairy woman" who heralds the death of a family member, by shrieking, or keening. Her name is linked to the tumuli that dot rural Ireland & harbors dead spirits

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The tune & lyrics relied on the repetition of a couple of basic motifs which could be extended or shortened. Since there was no established keening ‘text’, the singer was expected to improvise based on feeling. Keening was rhythmically free, i.e. without a metre.

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Nerevar carried Keening, a dagger made of the sound of the shadow of the moons 🗡🌒🌕🌘

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In Irish folklore, the Banshee is often represented with red eyes, reddened by her continuous weeping, while also looking menacingly terrifying. Hearing her screech and keening is believed to be a certain omen of death.

🎨IrenHorrors, The Cry of a Banshee

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According to Irish keening laments were sung by Banshees who'd sing (wailing) when a family member died or was about to die. "Keen" as a noun or verb comes from the Irish & Scottish Gaelic term caoineadh, "to cry or weep".

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baby killing people with sidearm. baby is good.
fr full auto on keening? got me 20 kill streak for once

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Did You Know: While you can acquire Keening in Skyrim, its enchantment has no charge? While this makes its enchantment unusable, you can still activate its enchantment on strike by using Fortify Destruction effects to lower the cost of Destruction spells to nothing.

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here's another one for the myths and legends, the Banshee! The Banshee is from Irish folklore and she announces the death of a family member, and does so by wailing, shrieking, or keening.

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Unanswered Lore Question Dagoth Ur Edition: "My final question is: If I had offered to let you join me, would you have surrendered Wraithguard, Sunder, and Keening to me to seal your oath?"

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Someone asked what Sixbone's blaster would look like, and they MIGHT be able to make something that kind of looks like a blaster. It wouldn't work and would just make some kind of awful keening sound while it existed briefly.

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In some parts of Ireland a Banshee is referred to as the bean chaointe, woman, whose wail can be so piercing that it shatters glass. In Scottish a similar creature is seen washing the bloodstained clothes or armour of those who are about to die.

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Track of the day is this stunning & genre-blending Sink Your Teeth In by

“from sparse and carefully picked notes twinned with glitched electronica through keening guitar interludes and a half-spoken vocal”

Album on the way 🎉

https://t.co/c3HicQOBF9

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a female in who heralds the of a family member, usually by or keening.
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B is for Banshee - a fairy woman from Gaelic folklore, who is a predictor of death, you will hear their wails or keening before someone important to you dies👻

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Old Fox walked up in the snow, in the keening wind, until he stood, quite alone, under a vast mariner's sky, at the chapel of St Nicholas. To the east, lights flickered & bobbed in the harbour & before him tumbled the Winged Horse, starry hooves flicking the dark Atlantic waves.

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The Banshee has diff. names & forms in Celtic lore; but this female keening spirit will omit a high-pitched lamenting cry when a family member dies or is near death. This ominous herald of death is often the first warning to the family, that a loved one is gone.

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Like a shitty Santa Claus poised over a waiting city, one keening for my BIG DUMPS, here comes some more, a bunch of good nintendo ladies feat. 2B and her Way2Big Booty

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FACT: Bansha is inspired by Banshee, a female spirit in Irish mythology who heralds the death of a family member, usually by wailing, shrieking, or keening.

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