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The Leanhaun-Shee
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By Katlyne MacRoth
Her reputation is a balance between a blood sucking fae and a darkly beautiful muse who simply misses the old times. Her name means "inspiration of faeries" or perhaps "faery sweetheart" from the gaelic translation leanan for "My inspiration" and sidhe for "faery". She is the most dangerous of these muse variations.

The Leanhaun-Shee is a powerful muse who bestows a gift; the ability to create a work of art, music or poetry with great depth of feeling. The price of her dark and delicate gift is sorrow or heartbreak that is born of obsession.

It is said that all great poets and musicians loved her, and that is why most of them died young. An artist may be spent as furiously as he draws from his source, hense the mythos of the artist who when possessed by the Leanhaun-shee lives a brilliant but brief life. Her true purpose is revealed in the creative works she inspires in artists, painters, and musicians.

Powers of the Leanhaun-Shee
She is an empath who is compelled to inspire love and despair, longing and desire. She teaches the beauty and power of such emotions and all such feeling that is vital to creation with many dark nights of the soul required to convey the sorrow of her histroy.

She is intelligence and creativity, art and magic. In this earthy realm, so embraced with fear of the erotic and the sensual, it is no wonder she who is the embodiment of these very qualities, has been considered dangerous and evil, as many women have been considered evil who revel in their mystery, power, and dark erotic beauty.
She may use blood cults to control her followers and exhust the life force with "excessive love-making" (from http://www.wildmuse.net/faerie/muses/leanan.html )
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Posted Oct 28, 2006 - 01:38 , Last Edited: Oct 28, 2006 - 18:54











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