Caoineag- Pronounced konyack. (EoF)

    The "weeper" is a variant of the highland banshee, the Bean-Nighe and Caointeach, closer to the Irish banshee and a possible transitional phase of the stories.
    She cannot be seen nor approached for wishes.  The Caoineag is heard wailing in the night near a waterfall before any catastrophe happens to her clan. (EoF)
    In an anecdote, Carmichael in Carmina Gadelica (vol. II, p. 227) says the Caioneag of the McDonalds was heard wailing night after night before the massacre of Glencoe.

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