Washerwoman (spirit)

A washerwoman, also called in Corvish bannee, beneega, or bean nighe, is a portentous spirit that takes the form of a woman washing clothes in a river, washing the blood out of the clothes of someone soon likely to die. They will be seen washing the doomed person's current clothes or obviously favorite clothes. The clothes may appear different to different viewers—whatever will convey to them who is the one to die.
Washerwomen are seen in streams, creeks, runs, and rivers (sometimes even the sea or a lake) with the appearance of a hag with only one nostril, often one larger tooth, and ample sagging breasts. (When lamins take on the role of washerwomen in mountain streams, they have the typical webbed feet.) If the clothes it is washing are indeed unfamiliar and the spirit is asked very politely, in the etiquette of spirits, who it is that is going to die, the washerwoman will answer them. If the washerwoman is approached carefully and its three questions answered, it will allow the supplicant to ask three questions of their own to seek the knowledge of spirits. If they then move in closer or sneak up on the washerwoman by means of enchantment and try to suck at her breast, they will have the sensation as if they met it, as if they had suckled it in a dream, but the spirit will in fact fade immediately and become their filgie.
==Sources==
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean_nighe
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