Talk:Les Lavandières

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I like this entry. I miss some context. What's a classic telling of this myth? It must be Breton? How would we find out more? Wetman 01:09, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I have more information to contribute on this, but at the mo this page is a possible copyright violation, so I'm not wasting time making edits if the whole thing's about to be scrapped. Les Lavandieres is the Breton incarnation of this Celtic myth, but we also have it in Britain, in slightly different forms for Ireland, Scotland, Cornwall and Wales. I don't think there is a traditional telling, they're just things you watch out for (like a banshee). Anyway, eyes peeled and maybe a fuller article will be here shortly.

Incidentally, Selphie... please get back to me on my talk page about whether you own the text of this article (see your talk page). If I don't hear from you soon, this article and Ankou are both up for speedy deletion.

--Viki 14:31, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

No word from Selphie, so I've put the copyright notice on this and Ankou. But I have posted my own researches on the subject on the temporary page, where it will either get merged with the old one (if it's not a copyright infringement) or become the beginning of a new article.

--Viki 15:27, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

--decide not to merge pages (its been suggested to merge with Bean Nigh ) Goldenrowley 07:30, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Possible source
I've been trying to find some source material for this article. Two possibilities I came across were: Les Lavandières and Les Lavandières. They mirror each other exactly and may come from another source I haven't been able to track down. Not easy to do, because I don't speak or read French. The Google translation closely matches the English text of this article in Wikipedia, so I think it may be a copy and paste. Folklore1 (talk) 23:40, 20 March 2015 (UTC)


 * I know it's four years later, but it seems that the text was copied verbatim from http://mystere-paranormal.over-blog.com/2017/08/les-lavandieres-de-la-nuit.html (now only available on Internet Archive) into the French version of this Wikipedia article, and then a translation was set as the English version. However, that URL isn't really a reliable source; maybe the sources can be fixed up a bit? User44654 13:25, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

kannerezed noz or eur-cunnere noe
In the Celtic Breton language of Brittany, France, this mythological being is called eur-cunnere noe. The Washer Woman is not known as the kannerezed noz in Brittany. I have found no credible source that uses this name. The source that gives the name eur-cunnere noe is Banshee (Bean Sidhe): "Variants: bean sidhe (Irish), bean nighe or cointeach (Scottish), cyhiraeth (Cornish), cyoerraeth or gyrach y rhibyn (Welch), eur-cunnere noe (Brittany).) Banshee Folklore1 (talk) 23:52, 20 March 2015 (UTC)