Question

In Hebridean (heb-rih-DEE-un) folklore, this activity is performed by spirits who may have breasts that they throw over their shoulders while working. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this activity at the center of a Celtic mytheme in which old women performing it at midnight ask passersby to help, killing those who comply exactly and granting wishes to those who do it in a different fashion.
ANSWER: washing clothes [or doing laundry; accept the midnight washerwomen; or laundresses; or Les Lavandières] (Twisting the clothes in the opposite way from the washerwomen leads to them granting you wishes.)
[10e] The bean-nighe (ban NEE-yuh) who wash the clothes of those who are about to die in Scottish and Irish folklore are a subtype of this more general kind of female spirits, who shriek and wail to herald death.
ANSWER: banshee [or bean sidhe; or bean sí; or ben síde; prompt on sidhe]
[10m] Washerwomen spirits in this region are called kannerezed noz (“can”-ner-EH-zed “nose”), meaning “night ducks,” for their webbed feet. A princess from this region steals a gate key from her father Gradlon to bring a lover home, with disastrous consequences.
ANSWER: Brittany [or Bretagne; or Breizh; or Bertaèyn; prompt on France; prompt on Ys by asking “what region is that in?”] (The disaster is that their city, Ys, sinks beneath the ocean.)
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2023 BHSU @ Berkeley03/18/2023Y313.33100%33%0%
2023 BHSU @ Maryland03/11/2023Y320.00100%67%33%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern02/25/2023Y618.33100%67%17%
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2023 BHSU @ Waterloo04/15/2023Y310.0067%33%0%
2023 BHSU @ Yale04/08/2023Y316.670%100%67%
2023 BHSU @ Yale04/08/2023Y316.67100%33%33%

Data

UG Championship Players (and Mazin)Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry1001020
Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Againnats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft0000
Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Againnats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft001010
Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People AgainColumbia B1001020
Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People AgainColumbia B100010
Olmo (Bonus) BagelryColumbia B010010
meet the new weird, same as the old weirdnats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft0101020
meet the new weird, same as the old weirdnats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft0101020
meet the new weird, same as the old weirdUG Championship Players (and Mazin)10101030
meet the new weird, same as the old weirdUG Championship Players (and Mazin)10101030
Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Againnats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft010010
Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Againnats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft0101020
Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People AgainColumbia B10101030
Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People AgainColumbia B1010020
meet the new weird, same as the old weirdnats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft001010
meet the new weird, same as the old weirdnats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft001010
meet the new weird, same as the old weirdUG Championship Players (and Mazin)1001020
meet the new weird, same as the old weirdUG Championship Players (and Mazin)1001020