The banshee or fairy woman is a spirit that often acts as a herald of a death in Irish mythology. This typically takes the form of the banshee wailing or crying.

Irish folklore, like the island itself, is littered with tales of earth mounds known as fairy forts. The ancient ringforts date back to the Iron Age and have long been entwined with tales of the ...

The banshee is integral to Irish folklore and a strong part of Gaelic tradition. These monsters come in different shapes and sizes, but their mystical powers always stem from the unique sounds ...

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 ...

She pops up across Irish, Scottish and Welsh stories. ... The Banshee is the story of a supernatural woman whose appearance and/or cry indicated that something terrible was about to happen.

Irish fairy tales were not sanitized like the Disney versions of the Grimm ones I'd grown up reading. Irish fae were capricious, ... But like the cry of the banshee, it called to me.