One of the names given to the Highland banshee (caointeach is another). She belonged to the class of Fuaths. Unlike the bean-nighe, she is not seen and cannot be approached to grant wishes. She is heard wailing in the darkness at a waterfall before any catastrophe overtakes a clan. Carmichael in Carmina Gadelica (vol.11, p.227) says that before the Massacre of Glencoe the Caoineag of the Macdonalds was heard to wail night after night.

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