31 Days of Monsters - Day 11: Oilliphéist

Oilliphéist is a massive serpent from Irish mythology that is said to have cut the path of the River Shannon. Once, Oilliphéist swallowed a drunken piper whole. The piper, unaware that it had been devoured, continued playing and drinking from inside the beast. After hearing the same tunes played over and over, Oilliphéist became so crazed, that he vomited up the piper unscathed, just to end the unceasing music.

31 Days of Monsters 2014: The Dulahan

A Dulahan is an Irish creature that takes the form of a headless figure astride a dark horse. The figure carries its grinning, oversize head under one arm while brandishing a razor sharp whip made from vertebrae with the other. The Dulahan is an omen of death in Irish culture. Wherever the Dulahan stops, a death is soon to occur. Some legends say that the Dulahan rides from town to town knocking on doors. If anyone answers, he throws a bucket of blood over them, which is seen as a portent of doom. I don’t see how it could be anything else do you?

31 Days of Monsters: The Banshee

Like the Black Dog, the Banshee (From the Irish: bean (woman) + sidhe (the fairy folk)) is a portent of death. To hear the Banshee wail means someone has been marked for death. Often the Banshee could be glimpsed on riverbanks washing blood from the clothes of those who would soon die an untimely death.