Gancanagh
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A Gancanagh is a male faerie in Irish mythology
that is known for seducing human women.
The Gancanagh are thought to have an addictive toxin in their skin that make the humans they seduce literally addicted to them. The women seduced by this type of faerie typically die from the withdrawal, pining away for the Ganacanagh's love or fighting to the death for his love.
The faerie is typically depicted carrying a clay pipe, though he does not smoke it because faeries generally detest smoke.
It is said to have died out or to be the last of its kind.
: Niall and Irial.
Kaito, one of the main characters of Kaori Yuki
's Fairy Cube
, is a Gancanagh.
Irish Mythology and particularly the Gancanagh is a major plot line in the "Murder, She Wrote" episode "A Killing in Cork".
Also, a Gancanagh named Quinn Donegan is the love interest in Lisa Sanchez's Eve of Samhain, in The Hanaford Park Series.
Irish mythology
The mythology of pre-Christian Ireland did not entirely survive the conversion to Christianity, but much of it was preserved, shorn of its religious meanings, in medieval Irish literature, which represents the most extensive and best preserved of all the branch and the Historical Cycle. There are...
that is known for seducing human women.
The Gancanagh are thought to have an addictive toxin in their skin that make the humans they seduce literally addicted to them. The women seduced by this type of faerie typically die from the withdrawal, pining away for the Ganacanagh's love or fighting to the death for his love.
The faerie is typically depicted carrying a clay pipe, though he does not smoke it because faeries generally detest smoke.
It is said to have died out or to be the last of its kind.
In popular culture
There are two prominent Gancanagh in the Wicked Lovely series by Melissa MarrMelissa Marr (author)
Melissa Marr is an American author of young-adult/urban fantasy novels.-Poetry:*On Meeting the Surgeon *The Moment of Impact *Fighting the Tide *The Art of Becoming -Short Fiction:...
: Niall and Irial.
Kaito, one of the main characters of Kaori Yuki
Kaori Yuki
is a female Japanese manga artist best known for her gothic manga such as Earl Cain, its sequel Godchild, and Angel Sanctuary. Yuki debuted in 1987 with which ran in the manga anthology Bessatsu Hana to Yume published by Hakusensha. Her work is typically serialized in one of Hakusensha's two shōjo...
's Fairy Cube
Fairy Cube
is a fantasy gothic shōjo manga written and illustrated by Kaori Yuki. Appearing as a serial in the Japanese manga magazine Hana to Yume from 2005 to 2006, the Fairy Cube chapters were collected into three tankōbon volumes by Hakusensha and published from October 2005 to July 2006. Yuki began Fairy...
, is a Gancanagh.
Irish Mythology and particularly the Gancanagh is a major plot line in the "Murder, She Wrote" episode "A Killing in Cork".
Also, a Gancanagh named Quinn Donegan is the love interest in Lisa Sanchez's Eve of Samhain, in The Hanaford Park Series.