Washes bloodstained clothes of the doomed

Banshee

Some accounts even describe Banshees as protective spirits, washing the bloodstained clothes of those about to die in battle.

Badb

She incites warriors and stirs confusion or panic among armies, and her cry or appearance is treated as an omen of the slaughter to come; the wider tradition around her and the related war-goddess figures includes the "washer at the ford" motif, a woman seen washing bloodied garments or armor by a river as a sign that the owner is fated to die, which compilers regularly attach to this cluster of goddesses.