5/29/2007 - The Comb

On doing some reaserch on Banshees I came acorss a new superstion I have not previously heard before, but I found it of interest and thought it was worth sharing.

If you ever see a comb lying on the ground in Ireland, you must never pick it up, or the banshees (or mermaids - stories vary), having placed it there to lure unsuspecting humans, will spirit such gullible humans away.

One thing that is intresting about this, is that in the original, the Grimms Brother, version of the Snow White story, the comb was one of the many gifts that the Step Mother had tried to give to Snow White to kill her. In the Disny modified version there is only the apple, but in the origional there were a seris of gifts. One in which was a comb which was posioned I beleive. It has been a while sense I read the story.