If this is supposed to reflect the banshee in the film, you ought to darken it, rather than make her look like a neon light. The banshee in the movie was mostly dark in the center with a greenish outline.
The travesty of a Disney hogwash movie that is Darby O' Gill is about as Irish as Chicken Chow Mein, if you really want to annoy and offend Irish people bring this movie up in conversation with them. Big hint, we hate it ...
"we hate it" I wouldn't go talking for all Irish people there. I knew an Irish man who enjoyed the film thoroughly. Not every person of any demographic will unanimously agree to an opinion. The movie definitely speaks to Ireland of the 50s, where belief in fairy people was inconsistent and muddled with Christian beliefs, especially given much of Celtic mythology was heavily Christianized during the medieval period when Ireland was being converted. Many folks still say "Tuatha De Danan" when it should just be "Tuath De", as "Danan" refer to "Danu", a Christian-invented deity. A similar issue befell Scandinavia, most of what people think is true of Norse mythology and customs is very inaccurate. Darby O'Gill might be inaccurate, but that's largely because pre-Christian beliefs weren't properly preserved, and much of it overwritten. Most accuracy is long lost.
A great movie, although its view of the fey and of relations between landholds and tenants was more a mix of English and Irish than truly Irish. Still an enjoyable film to watch, though; no worse than any of Disney's other movies (and better than many of them).
That said, the wisp mother's abilities don't really suit a banshee (perhaps if you used scripts to give it a sonic attack?), so I will be sticking with the original color. I use Kajuan's retexture of the wisp mother (67525).
Lol, true, but I have absolutely no idea how to do scripts nor do I have access to the creation kit. The bethesda launcher doesn't want to work on my computer so I have no way of downloading the creation kit. So I stick to retextures.
I'm a few years late, but the film was done with a very Christian bent to it, which is why the treatment of leprechauns, banshee, puca, etc. feels off. Walt even did a video "explaining leprechauns", which by way of following the Christian views, treated them as a sort of fallen angel, as Christianity doesn't accept the notions of fairy folk. And naturally in the case of the banshee, it's treated as a horrific ghost figure that Christians believe work against god and such, prompting them to believe they can fight off banshee. The idea of banshee using "sonic attacks" wouldn't really be accurate, even as most post-D&D fantasy settings opt for that idea. Banshee don't simply wail and shriek, they presage deaths by keening, a traditional form of Irish lament for the dead; while human women would keen at wakes, banshee were fairy women who did so just before someone was certain to die. As wispmothers are an enemy force of ambiguous origin, them being banshee would be inaccurate in and of itself, as banshee are not enemies; they announce death, they don't cause it. But if a banshee possessed any vocal magic attack, it would be akin to that of a siren, an alluring song that dupes one to their doom.
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I wouldn't go talking for all Irish people there. I knew an Irish man who enjoyed the film thoroughly. Not every person of any demographic will unanimously agree to an opinion. The movie definitely speaks to Ireland of the 50s, where belief in fairy people was inconsistent and muddled with Christian beliefs, especially given much of Celtic mythology was heavily Christianized during the medieval period when Ireland was being converted. Many folks still say "Tuatha De Danan" when it should just be "Tuath De", as "Danan" refer to "Danu", a Christian-invented deity. A similar issue befell Scandinavia, most of what people think is true of Norse mythology and customs is very inaccurate.
Darby O'Gill might be inaccurate, but that's largely because pre-Christian beliefs weren't properly preserved, and much of it overwritten. Most accuracy is long lost.
That said, the wisp mother's abilities don't really suit a banshee (perhaps if you used scripts to give it a sonic attack?), so I will be sticking with the original color. I use Kajuan's retexture of the wisp mother (67525).
The idea of banshee using "sonic attacks" wouldn't really be accurate, even as most post-D&D fantasy settings opt for that idea. Banshee don't simply wail and shriek, they presage deaths by keening, a traditional form of Irish lament for the dead; while human women would keen at wakes, banshee were fairy women who did so just before someone was certain to die. As wispmothers are an enemy force of ambiguous origin, them being banshee would be inaccurate in and of itself, as banshee are not enemies; they announce death, they don't cause it.
But if a banshee possessed any vocal magic attack, it would be akin to that of a siren, an alluring song that dupes one to their doom.