OK you asked for it :)
This is a little off the wall, and I apologise it it seems a bit weird
to you. I experiment with "lucid dreaming", where I try to control my
dreams in a structured manner. I generally do it when I'm working out
plots for stories, but over the years I've also used it to try to find
answers to problems or as "remote viewing" on historical places and
figures. I've no idea how accurate the impressions I get are, but for
what it's worth, here's what I got when I concentrated on Baven and
Scotland
First of all, I get the impression he is about the age you
thought...he was made what he is in around 1513. ( I keep coming back
to the battle at Flodden ( http://www.royal-stuarts.org/flodden.htm )
. There's a connection, but I'm not sure what.
Before he was turned, I think he was a blacksmith, or a blacksmith's
helper...I get the impression of a forge and see him using a hammer on
a horseshoe.
I'm pretty sure he was seduced by what we would call a Baobhan Sith
... he certainly thought she was a wraith. I get the feeling she
wasn't called Devon...but DEVONA, an old Saxon name meaning
"Protector.". I also get the feeling of great age when I turn my mind
to her...the picture I get looks like Cate Blanchett playing Galadriel
in Lord of the Rings, but I'm sure its not her :) The Baobhan Sith or
banshee traditionally is associated with a high-caste family, so maybe
the one your friend sees is a 'protector' of a noble family in the
Scottish borders. I keep getting the name "Ferniehirst". A bit of
digging led me to the castle described at "Traditions and Stories of
Scottish Castles" ( http://www.electricscotland.com/history/castles/ferniehirst.htm
)
Baven was originally a David....David Beattie? David Baillie? not
quite sure of the name, and he came from the Scottish Borders
area....Moffat is the place I see, so he wasn't a highlander. He met
the Baobhan Sith after a nicht drinking with his friends, and she took
him on a road beside a small loch. This happened three times to him
over a period of time, before he finally turned.
He never saw the one you call "Devon" again, but he took the name
Baven because he thought he had been visited by a Baobhan Sith
(pronounced baavan she).
In around 1580 he became part of a group of beings like
himself....what these days would probably be called a coven. The
leader of the group is the one you called "Kelica". The name I get is
CLEENA...and I found this at the "Encyclopedia of the Celts" site (
http://celt.net/Celtic/celtopedia/c.html )
"A Danaan maiden once living in Mananan's country. - One of the most
notable landmarks of Ireland was the Tonn Cliodhna, or 'Wave of
Cleena,' on the seashore at Glandore Bay in Co. Cork. The story about
Cleena exists in several versions, which do not agree with each other
except in so far as she seems to have been a Danaan maiden once living
in Mananan's country, the Land of Youth beyond the sea. Escaping
thence with a mortal lover, as one of the versions tells, she landed
on the southern coast of Ireland, and her lover, Keevan of the Curling
Locks, went off to hunt in the woods. Cleena, who remained on the
beach, was lulled to sleep by fairy music played by a minstrel of
Mananan, when a great wave of the sea swept up and carried her back to
Fairyland, leaving her lover desolate. Hence the place was called the
Strand of Cleena's Wave.
I feel this would be a good place to start more investigation by
yourself on her, given the closeness of her lovers name "Keevan" to
"Baavan"
There were tensions in the group, as you say, caused by jealousy and
rivalry, and it split up, but I get the feeling that both "Baven" and
"Kelica" are still around....or at least were up to somewhere in the
last century or so, since the last picture I get of them both is on a
steam train somewhere in Ireland.
Hope that all helps.
willie-ga
If I were you I'd ask around for more info on the various vampire
newsgroups and forums such as the newsgroup at alt.vampyres
There's also a scottish forum on vampires at the Bite Me! magazine
site at their Chat Forum
( http://www.bitememagazine.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi )
where you might get in touch with more people interested in Scottish
vampire lore. |
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