Banshee
MythologyIrish
RoleDeath messenger spirit
About Banshee
A fairy woman whose keening wail foretells a death in certain old families. Appears as a young woman, a matron, or a withered hag combing her hair. Attached to Gaelic noble lines rather than places. Her name means woman of the fairy mounds.
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