Tag: Ireland Folklore
There have been plenty of Irish horror flicks in the past, but John Farrelly’s latest film, Ah Taibhse (The Ghost) marks a first. Marketed as the first and only horror movie produced entirely in the Irish language, it focuses on a father and his daughter hired as Winter caretakers for an isolated Georgian Mansion, only
The Washers at the Ford are death spirits, harbingers of doom, now often classified among the Sidhe. Their first documented appearances are in Irish sagas, most notably the tale of Cu Chulain, Champion of Ulster. These spirits of doom appear in Ireland and the Scottish Highlands. (Scottish variants are sometimes called Little Washerwomen.) Their name