Citations:Gan Ceann

Gan Ceann

 * 2006, Thomas Sullivan, The Water Wolf, Onyx Books (ISBN 9780451412263):
 * And the dullahan's whip, capable of surgical precision in removing the eyes of mortals, snapped over the steeds — snapped where the heads of the steeds would be, if they had any. Nonsense, of course. Nonsense that the Gan Ceann would hit you in the face with a bucket of blood, or that he could lift his severed head up into the air to see you, or that the coach would stop beside you and the door swing open and your name be called ...
 * 2016, Mark Latham, Hunting the Headless Horseman, The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc (ISBN 9781499465365), page 46:
 * It was never fully clear to Irving whether the Dullahan and the Gan Ceann were the same entity by different names, or two separate creatures altogether.
 * 2017, Jim Zub, Wayward Vol. 4 Threads And Portents, Image Comics (ISBN 9781534303133)
 * The darkest incarnation of the sacrificial god, however, is the Dullahan, also known as Gan Ceann, meaning without a head&#39;. Crom Dubh did not want to be denied human souls following the introduction of Christianity and so disguised himself ...

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 * 1913, William Livingston, The Independent, page 859:
 * “There was a girl that had been to America and came back,” says another. “And one day she was coming over from Liscannor in a curragh and she looked back, and there behind the curragh was the gan-ceann, the headless one. And he followed the boat a great way, but she said nothing. But a gold pin that was in her hair fell out, and into the sea, ...
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 * 1920, William Butler Yeats, Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, page 30:
 * from Liscannor in a curragh, and she looked back and there behind the curragh was the "Gan ceann" the headless one. And he followed the boat a great way, but she said nothing. But a gold pin that was in her hair fell out, and into the sea, ...