bean-nighe

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

bean-nighe f

  1. The washerwoman, a creature in Scottish mythology, akin to the Irish bean sí. She appears at a body of water (river, lake, or stream), washing the clothes (sometimes bloodstained) of somebody for whom death is near, as a warning to the person's family that death will come soon.
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