Bean Nighe
The Bean Nighe, meaning washerwoman in Scottish Gaelic, is a death omen spirit from Scottish Highland folklore, a specific type of banshee that haunts desolate streams and fords. She is the spirit of a woman who died in childbirth and is doomed to wash the bloody grave-clothes of those about to die until the day her natural lifespan would have ended. Known also as nigheag na h-ath or little washer at the ford, she appears in lonely places beside streams and pools where she can be seen scrubbing linen and shrouds stained with blood, her mournful singing and washing presaging an imminent death i