Campbell's chapter on the washing woman, Bean-nighe, gives the related Skye form, a squat figure like a small pitiful child who washes the shirts of those about to die and tells the future to anyone who catches her. The Caoineag is a related being, tied here to one clan and one night.
No older source for the Glencoe version was found, so the Caoineag story is held as legend.
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