Other Origins: Germany and England.
Other Names: Water Woman. In Germany she is called the Weisse Frau and she is somewhat more Benevolant than her Irish version.
The Weisse Frau is very protective of children, and a kiss from her renders a child almost indestrucible. She has also been known to give directions to lost travelers.
She will, however, drown those who displease her or hurt children. In England she is called Jenny Greentooth or the Greentoothed Woman, which has become a generic name for these types of drowning faeries in English-speaking counries.
Element: Water.
Appearance and Temperament: The Bean-Fionn(Ban-Shoan), which literally means "white woman", is a watery, female faeryin a white gown who lives beneath lakes and streams and reaches up to drag under and drown children at play or work near or in the water.
Time Most Active: All year.
Lore: The Bean-Fionn may be one of those faery forms which exists not as a whole being, but as an incomplete thought-form created by the collective fears of persons past.
In fact, she may have been created by parents who wished to warn their children away from dangerous lakes and rivers.
An English nursery rhyme echoes the sentiments of these worried parents:
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