There exists an interesting Irish legend about a female wraith called The Grey Washer by the Ford. She usually stands by a river and seems to be constantly washing something in the water. If approached by a 'doomed' man, someone who unbeknownst to him is about to suffer a violent death in the near future, the wraith holds up what she was washing, and it turns out to be a shadow of the doomed man himself, complete with bleeding wounds he is about to suffer.