Talk:Leanan sídhe

Untitled
this page should most certainly be merged. the information is split down the middle and the only thing that seperates the topics is the choice of spelling Fergus mac Róich 21:23, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

deleted the painting
the painting showed the influence of absinthe (known as "the green fairy") and not this mythological being, so while, so I decided it didn't strictly belong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.24.20.92 (talk) 20:19, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Various spellings and languages
This article definitely needs some clarification and consistency in this regard. We have: The article is titled 'Leanan sídhe,' which doesn't match any of these and isn't explained. The article also uses 'leannán sídhe' several times in its body, which also doesn't fit any pattern. I'm not remotely an expert on this matter, but unless we get one in here, I'm going to do my best to sort this out over the next few days. Rekov (talk) 06:48, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Celtic - leannán sí (never explicitly stated, but assumed)
 * Gaelic - leannan sìth
 * Manx - lhiannan shee


 * And as of 2024, two "Gaelic" spellings... ... neither of them matching the pagename either.  Maybe a move to leannán sídhe would make sense.  109.255.211.6 (talk) 02:47, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Pop Culture Addition Suggestions
The anime The Ancient Magus' Bride has a completed subplot involving a Leanan sídhe. It is noteworthy both for the show's popularity, as well as its highly tragic rendition of the topic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Draken09 (talk • contribs) 00:56, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't know if there is enough relevance about this, but in Star Trek DS9 is an episode as well that seems to feature this spirit, in this case in the shape of an alien that feeds on the mental energy of Jake Sisko while inspiring him for his writing and causing him to age faster.--80.128.236.171 (talk) 19:42, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

Earlier references than Yeats'
I'm disputing the assertion that Yeats invented the Leanan Sidhe. Lady Wilde (Speranza) mentions them in a publication just prior to Yeats' Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland, 1887), and there's a much earlier reference in the 1854 Transactions of the Ossianic Society, although that refers to a male Leanan Sidhe troubling a mortal woman. (See pages 91-92) I haven't investigated too much further than this - the Transactions sufficed to convince me that they were being written about before Yeats was born.

References:

Lady Wilde ('Speranza'), Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland(Boston: Ticknor and Co, 1887)

Transactions of the Ossianic Society, 1854, https://archive.org/details/cu31924027086911/page/n95 Accessed 31st December 2019.

Ammulvey (talk) 10:49, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

Earlier references
Re: the post above I have edited the article to remove the erroneous claim that the myth was invented by Yeats, incorporating the references mentioned above. The Transactions of the Ossianic Society leave no doubt that the myth existed before Yeats, and as this reference is to a priest writing an incantation to remove the leannán sídhe from his parishioner, it was clearly a genuine folk beleif rather than a literary invention. However I have kept the section largely intact to explain his popularization of a particular version of the myth. I have put the general description of the mythic figure in the first par, and added a reference to a reputable source, and left this information about Yeats in the second paragraph.

Niall Edwards-FitzSimons 09:32, 31 May 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8003:C428:2401:3047:8453:C9FC:9A8A (talk)