rynner said:Monor Drag
mrchopper said:Is that Minor drag's evil twin?:devil:
melforkbeard said:if people arent blood relatives of the family, eg adoptive(d), such as my self. do they also then recieve the "same treatment?"
* i think that the bird of death/doom are all white??
We have robins.Marion said:I think generally they were supposed to be white birds though I think certain families would have other specific types of birds or animals as death warners .
escargot said:No Irish in my family, plenty of Welsh though.
Steve Jefferson said:What about the Scottish wish hounds? I can't remember much about these but I seem to recall that they were blue or purple and seeing one meant certain death.
Then there is old Black Shuck the demon dog a sighting of whom has similar fatal consequences.
I'm not clear about whether these horror pooches portend death or actually cause it.
Helen said:I think Whisht Hounds are different to Shuck. But then this is from memory, because I haven't looked at the sites yet.
Whisht Hounds were the ones that attended the Wild Hunt, I thought. Weren't they usually white with red ears? Also known as Ratchetts. Black Shuck (other than being a song by The Darkness ) were your typical black dog. Some stories have them causing death, such as the Moddhy Dhoo (sp?) on the Isle of Man; some are portends of death, and I remember one story of a woman who owed her life to a mysterious black hound.
The Ratchetts would go around in packs; black shuck was a loner. Ratchetts would tear people apart; Shucks would just look menacing usually. Big heavy dogs with no visible breath sort of thing.
Bugger. I've run out of Baileys.
Zoot said:Hello, I'm completely new, I have been lurking for only a couple of weeks.
I'm half-Irish and I live in Dublin, and I'm convinced I heard the bean sidhe this February, about a week before my grandfather died in Germany. It was pretty late at night and I was in the middle of an insomnia cycle, but pretty wide awake, and I heard two spine-chilling cries which truly freaked me out. I live in the middle of the city, and while we do have foxes here, I've never heard one; besides which the cries didn't sound as though they came from street level. Maybe it was a bird, but I have definitely never heard a bird like that before, and I hope I never do again!
What I found odd about it was that the cries scared me. Living in the city you hear a lot of funny noises at night, and you get used to it and even become apathetic about hearing people shout and scream. These sounds freaked me out big-time, and the feeling stayed for days. And then my grandfather kicked the bucket!
The Virgin Queen said:I'm not so sure about the fox crying idea.
I don't have any personal experence of the bean sidhe as all my friends of Irish extraction (and my own family) are of a, shall we say, lower class and the bean sidhe is defenatly linked to higher class families.
However to claim that people who would have known what a fox cry sounded like mistook it for something supernatural seems to be stretching credulity a little bit.
espirit said:I'm currently running experiments with Digital cameras in order to debunk the orb phenomenon.