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アイルランドの伝説では、バッブは戦争と死に関連しており、差し迫った流血を予感させるために現れたり、戦いに参加して兵士の間に混乱をもたらしたりしている。バズヴは運命の前触れとして、さまざまな姿で登場する。アイルランドの伝説では、バッブは戦争と死に関連しており、差し迫った流血を予感させるために現れたり、戦いに参加して兵士の間に混乱をもたらしたりしている。バズヴは運命の前触れとして、さまざまな姿で登場する。『Togail Bruidne Dá Derga』では、醜い老婆の姿をしており、コナ・モールの没落を予言する<ref name="Culture">Koch, John T., Celtic Culture: a historical encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, December 2005, Santa Barbara, Calif., page220 , isbn:978-1-85109-440-0</ref>。
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== 伝説における表現 ==
In Irish legends, Badb is associated with war and death, appearing either to foreshadow imminent bloodshed or to participate in battles, where she creates confusion among the soldiers. As a harbinger of doom, she appears in a number of different guises. In ''[[Togail Bruidne Dá Derga]]'', she takes the form of an ugly hag who prophesies [[Conaire Mór]]'s downfall.<ref name="Culture">{{cite book | author=Koch, John T. | title =Celtic Culture: a historical encyclopedia | publisher = ABC-CLIO | date =December 2005 | location = Santa Barbara, Calif. | page =220 | isbn = 978-1-85109-440-0}}</ref> She appears in a similar guise in ''Togail Bruidne Dá Choca'' to foretell the slaying of Cormac Condloinges, as well as taking the form of a "[[Bean nighe|washer at the ford]]"—a woman washing Cormac's chariot and harness in a ford in what was considered an omen of death.<ref name="Culture" /><ref name="Symbols">{{cite book | author=Davidson, Hilda Ellis | title =Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions | publisher = Syracuse University Press | year =1988 | location = Syracuse, NY | page =99 | isbn = 978-0-8156-2441-7}}</ref> The cries of Badb may also be an ill omen: Cormac's impending death is foreshadowed with the words "The red-mouthed badbs will cry around the house, / For bodies they will be solicitous" and "Pale badbs shall shriek".<ref name="Ancient">Hennessy, W. M., "The Ancient Irish Goddess of War", ''Revue Celtique'' 1, 1870–72, pp. 32–37</ref> In this role she has much in common with the bean-sídhe.<ref name="Dictionary">{{cite book | author=Mackillop, James | title =A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology | publisher = Oxford University Press | year =2004 | location = New York | page =30 | isbn = 978-0-19-860967-4}}</ref>
She was also regularly depicted as an active participant in warfare; indeed, the battlefield was sometimes referred to as "the garden of the Badb".<ref name="Heroes">{{cite book | author=Sjoestedt, Mary-Louise | title =Celtic Gods and Heroes | publisher = Dover Publications | year =2000 | location= Mineola, NY | page =32 | isbn = 978-0-486-41441-6}} (reissue of ''Gods and Heroes of the Celts''. London: Methuen, 1949)</ref> During the [[Cath Maige Tuired|First Battle of Mag Tuired]], Badb—along with her sisters, Macha and Morrígan—fights on the side of the [[Tuatha Dé Danann]]. Using their magic, the three sisters incite fear and confusion among the [[Fir Bolg]] army, conjuring "compact clouds of mist and a furious rain of fire" and allowing their enemies "neither rest nor stay for three days and nights".<ref name="FirstBattle">Fraser, J. (ed. & trans.), [http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/1maghtured.html "The First Battle of Moytura"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090504180957/http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/1maghtured.html |date=4 May 2009 }}, ''[[Ériu (journal)|Ériu]]'' 8, pp. 1–63, 1915</ref> Badb plays a similar role in the [[Táin Bó Cúailnge]], terrorising and disorienting the forces of [[Medb|Queen Medb]] and causing many to fall on their own weapons.<ref name="Ancient" /> She would often take the form of a screaming raven or crow, striking fear into those who heard her,<ref name="Oxford">{{cite book | author=Leeming, David | title=The Oxford Companion to World Mythology | publisher=Oxford University Press | date=November 2007 | location=New York | isbn=978-0-19-515669-0 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont0000leem }}</ref> and could also be heard as a voice among the corpses on a battlefield.<ref name="Culture" />
