Banshee
Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #392 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.
↻ synthesized from 8 sources
When
- First attested
- 0 CE
- Attested period
- 0 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested since the Old Irish period.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Yaksha, Yaoguai, Tiyanak, Rakshasa, Lamia, Māui, Baba Yaga, Changeling, Doppelgänger, Empousa, Huay Chivo, Nahual, Kelpie, Moura Encantada, Mangkukulam, Nixie, Saci, Tengu, Verechelen, Yokai, Yogoe, Leanan sidhe, Clíodhna, Baobhan sith, Ganchanagh, bean-síghe, bean chaointe, Aibell, bean-nighe, Gwyn ap Nudd, Dullahan, Maleagant, Arawn, Afallach, Djinn, Poltergeist, fairies, demons, Ala, jinn, Monkey King, Aswang, Cyhyraeth, Ankou, Cu Sith
- has aspect
- Caoineag
- syncretized with
- Klagmuhme
Mentioned by
Sources
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“Banshee”
#5308 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Some sources suggest that the banshee laments only the descendants of the "pure Milesian stock" of Ireland, with the original belief appearing to associate the folklore with a number of ancient Irish families. According to this tradition, a banshee would not lament or visit someone of Saxon or Norman descent or who came to Ireland later”
#14237 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Gaelic lore also involves a female spirit known as Banshee (Modern Irish Gaelic: bean sí pron. banshee, literally fairy woman), who heralds the death of a person by shrieking or keening.”
#14510 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Banshee (Modern Irish Gaelic: bean sí pron. banshee, literally fairy woman), who heralds the death of a person by shrieking or keening. The banshee is often described as wearing red or green, usually with long, disheveled hair.”
#39964 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“An intermittent kind of ominous haunting attached, not to places, but to families, is that of the banshee (Celtic) or family death omen”
#44351 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free