Banshee Fountain

Description

Skyclad fays relax in the living waters of a spring, amidst Erin’s greenery.

The Irish word banshee (beansithe) means faery woman, though it came to signify a fate, especially the guardian spirit of a clan, who appears as an omen of a coming death or other momentous events.

Mirrors and combs figure in folk tales about faery women in the Gaeltacht, as well as among the Basques, Spanish, French, Germans, Slavs and Scandanavians. Men sometimes try to steal these precious objects while the fay women are bathing in pools, and are pursued by them. In many European traditions, it rains when the faery women, or the rusalky in Russia, comb their hair.