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Banshie

noun
1.
(Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death.  Synonym: banshee.






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... Increase Mather, in witch trials, and in rural disturbances. Omitting other examples Cardan {131b} is cited for a house at Parma, in which during a hundred years the phantom of an old woman was seen before the death of members of the family. This is a rare case of an Italian Banshie. William of Paris, in Bodin (iii. ch. vi.) tells of a stone-throwing fiend, very active in 1447. The bogey of Bingen, a rapping ghost of 856, is duly chronicled; he also threw stones. The dormitory ...
— Cock Lane and Common-Sense • Andrew Lang



Words linked to "Banshie" :   Hibernia, spirit, disembodied spirit, Ireland, Emerald Isle, folklore



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