The lipless nature of this type of being horrifies Larry Dodd as he leans in for a kiss as payment for hitchhiking in Thomas Crofton Crocker’s tale The Good Woman. These beings, whose flesh is reminiscent of moldy cheese, assault observers by throwing bloody basins and gouging out their eyes with a human spine whip, as related in the Harvest Dinner. Banshees and these beings guide a certain ominous vehicle whose passage heralds the death of a loved one unless it passes through an open gate. Those Irish death coaches are guided by the skeletal (*) dullahan, who exemplifies this archetype. These beings may play bowling using an object that floats nearby or is tucked underneath their arms. For 10 points, acephalous equines may be ridden by what beings, whose popular association with the Jack O’Lantern stems from a Washington Irving short story? ■END■
ANSWER: headless horsemen [accept dullahan until read; accept gan ceann; accept death coach or headless coach or Coshta Bower or Couch-a-Bower or Cóiste Gan Cheann until “death coaches” is read; prompt on fae or fairy or goblin; prompt on skeleton; prompt on headless person]
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