Illustration Friday: Superstition -

"Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop at an Irish Breakfast"
$50 Unframed - LUCAS GALLERY
digitally manipulated photograph by Mick Mather

I suppose the custom of tossing salt over your shoulder after having spilled it is not just peculiar to the Irish. That said, we often think about such things as the weekly theme, superstition at Illustration Friday, in terms of the cultures we happen to know. Whether this depiction of such green voodoo is an accident waiting to happen or a preventive measure, I'm not really sure. In my own family tree, I'm fairly certain that Clan Christie would be tossing some after breakfast just to be on the safe side. :)

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"Wailing Lament of the Banshee"
$50 unframed - LUCAS GALLERY
digital collage by Mick Mather

According to legend, a banshee wails around a house if someone in the house is about to die. Celtic, Gaelic, Norse and other cultural legends have variations of things to say about these fairies, spirits or fallen angels. For this post, I leave it at the "wailing" for one about to pass as with a Keener who sings the lament at a traditional Irish wake. At the same time, I've given the visual a particularly gruesome treatment. There's plenty of the blarney in me, thanks to Clan Christie, but I don't ever recall hearing about the moan from any of my maternal grandmum's side of the family. Neither have I ever actually heard it myself at those times when the veil dropped to snatch away a loved one whose time had come.