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bean-nighe f.
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.
Although the Bean Nighe
was often seen as an evil portent she was not always a portent of ones own death
as in the Irish version, and if approached in the correct way she would grant
wishes. All you had to do was get in between her and the water.
You would then be given
the opportunity to ask three wishes and three questions, but three questions
would have to be given truthfully in return, in the form of a traditional
exchange between humans and supernatural creatures.
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