washes-bloodstained-clothes-of-the-doomed

Banshee · salience 0.7

“Some accounts even describe Banshees as protective spirits, washing the bloodstained clothes of those about to die in battle.”

Badb · salience 0.7

“She incites warriors and stirs confusion or panic among armies, and her cry or appearance is treated as an omen of the slaughter to come; the wider tradition around her and the related war-goddess figures includes the "washer at the ford" motif, a woman seen washing bloodied garments or armor by a river as a sign that the owner is fated to die, which compilers regularly attach to this cluster of goddesses.”