In Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, the Grim Reaper visits a lovely
little dinner party to inform the guests that unfortunately they’re
dead. After refusing wine and poking a man in the eye, he leads them to
heaven, where there is, of course, a nice musical number.
Conspicuously absent for a British production, though, is the banshee of Irish and Scottish mythology, an ugly, nasty hag clad either in white or gray. A kind of fairy, she’s said to soar around your house, screaming like a manic demon to not so subtly let you know you’re about to die, usually in a violent manner. But unlike the Grim Reaper, this lady doesn’t murder you herself. She’s more of a hands-off type of death omen.
Source: WIRED.com
Conspicuously absent for a British production, though, is the banshee of Irish and Scottish mythology, an ugly, nasty hag clad either in white or gray. A kind of fairy, she’s said to soar around your house, screaming like a manic demon to not so subtly let you know you’re about to die, usually in a violent manner. But unlike the Grim Reaper, this lady doesn’t murder you herself. She’s more of a hands-off type of death omen.
Source: WIRED.com
Image: Banshee
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