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A banshee (/ ˈ b æ n ʃ iː / BAN-shee; Modern Irish bean sí, from Old Irish: ben síde [bʲen ˈʃiːðʲe], "woman of the fairy mound" or "fairy woman") is a female spirit in Irish folklore who heralds the death of a family member, [1] usually by screaming, wailing, shrieking, or keening.
Fairer-than-a-Fairy (Caumont de La Force) Fairer-than-a-Fairy (Mailly) Fairy godmother; The Falcon Pipiristi; The Fan of Patience (Pakistani fairy tale) Feather O' My Wing (Irish fairy tale) The Fire-Fairy; The Fisher-Girl and the Crab; The Flea (fairy tale) The Flower Queen's Daughter; The Forgotten Bride; The Fox Sister; Frau Holle; The Frog ...
Although the Brothers' scrubbing worked to distort the stories' portrayal of women, it'd be tough to prove that they're to blame for all of the patriarchal forces at work in the fairy tales we know. Women are disproportionately the subjects of violence in both the 1810 and 1812 collections, and in both, they have far fewer lines of dialogue ...
Statue of La Llorona on an island of Xochimilco, Mexico, 2015. La Llorona (Latin American Spanish: [la ʝoˈɾona]; ' the Crying Woman, the Weeping Woman, the Wailer ') is a vengeful ghost in Mexican folklore who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning her children whom she drowned in a jealous rage after discovering her husband was unfaithful to her.
Timothy "Timmy" Tiberius Turner (voiced by Mary Kay Bergman in the original Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts, Tara Strong in the television series and A Fairly Odd Summer and portrayed by Drake Bell in the live-action films and Alec Baldwin in the "Channel Chasers" television series and played by Caleb Pierce in The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder) is a 10-year-old boy who was given fairy godparents ...
A similar role reversal is evident in Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, in whose climactic scene the male protagonist is captured by a serial killer, locked in an underground torture room, chained, stripped naked, and humiliated when his female partner enters to save him and destroy the villain.
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A weeping statue is a statue which has been claimed to have shed tears or to be weeping by supernatural means. Statues weeping tears which appear to be blood, oil, and scented liquids have all been reported.