An omen of death, with a wail so high pitched, intense, and mortifying, it makes my singing sound good. The Banshee is known in Irish Folklore as a female spirit who appears and shrieks as a warning ...

The myth of the wailing wraiths is woven into the culture and landscape of the Emerald Isle. Today, storytellers (and tour ...

Whether her name comes from bean-sídhe, (fairy woman) or bean chaointe (keening woman), the banshee is a career woman with a job to do and historian Gillian Kenny advises us to leave her alone to get ...

It is not too difficult to believe in her – whoever the hell she is – when the wind is howling and whispering through the ...

Two of the granderkinder and I once attended a movie in which the writer/director used the word to describe one of his weird creatures. These things resembled pterodactyls yet were allowed to be ...

The Tuatha de Danann (Tribes of the goddess Danu), also known in myth, legend and song as (The Fairies, The Wee Folk The Litttle People, The Shee (as in Banshee), ...