The Banshee THE Banshee cries on the rising wind "O-hoho, O hoho-o-o!
From every ruined castle grey, well may the banshee cry O'er bitter waters once let loose that have not yet run dry O would the blessed time might come when, party feeling done, The noble deeds of both sides will be gathered into one!
From near old castles, where the dread banshee Waits for the native lords when laid to rest?
The team leaped to their feet and broke from the cover, screaming their banshee cry.
At his banshee signal, the other men took up the cry.
An omen that sometimes accompanies the banshee is ‘.
When more than one banshee is present, and they wail and sing in chorus, it is for the death of some holy or great one.
Sir Walter Scott terms the belief in the appearance of the Banshee "one of the most beautiful" of the leading superstitions of Europe.
Kavanagh: "the Banshee has come for him, Miss, and 'tis not I alone who have heard her.
Then the Banshee caught sight of David and hobbled over to him, peering into his frightened eyes.
Fifteen minutes later the Banshee came out with the box, plugging up the hole in its side with a bit of wax.
The last thing they heard as they felt their way up the dark passage was the happy cackling of the Banshee and the clang of the cash register.
Illustration] The Banshee corked the bottle and held it up proudly to the light.
When it had cleared, they saw the Banshee tilting the saucepan over a small bottle.
But I wonder why the thought of the Banshee frightened him so?
But perhaps--perhaps--I shall let you off lightly if you tell us where the Banshee lives.
Sure that same night the Banshee howled To fright the evil dame, And fairy folks, who loved Kathleen, With funeral torches came.
There is also folklore in the chap-book Hibernian Tales, and a Banshee story or two will be found in Miss Lefanu's Memoirs of my Grandmother, and in Barrington's Recollections.
The Banshee on the other hand who cries with triumph is often believed to be no fairy but a ghost of one wronged by an ancestor of the dying.
The Banshee is called badh or bowa in East Munster, and is named Bachuntha by Banim in one of his novels.
When more than one Banshee comes to cry, the man or woman who is dying must have been very holy or very brave.
The banshee does not care much for our democratic levelling tendencies; she loves only old families, and despises the parvenu or the nouveau riche.
An omen that sometimes accompanies the banshee is '.
Wail no more, lonely one, mother of exile wail no more, Banshee of the world--no more!
I thought for an instant, when the banshee wail became shrill again, that it was still coming from the same ambulance.
A third followed it at a distance of less than a hundred feet, its siren at such full blast that it no longer sounded like a banshee wail.
He always had a belief that a rich alluvial gold-field would be discovered in the Banshee Creek country.
But she was mightily pleased when the "Ever Victorious" Grainger told her that he was going to take her all the way to Minerva Downs, as he "wanted to see Farrow about buying a hundred bullocks to send to the new rush at Banshee Creek.
The news of this wonderfully rich field has been two weeks reaching Townsville owing to the flooded condition of the country between Banshee Creek and Chinkie's Flat.
It gives me no holier-than-thou feeling of horror to sit beside a vampire in the subway, no panic to hear a banshee shut up in a hurdy-gurdy box.
This was the Banshee that did the wailing that had scared them all--all but the Dog.
The Banshee called once that night, and again Turk seemed not to hear, but half an hour later there was a different and much lower sound outside, a light, nasal "wow.
There is now an American banshee with all modern improvements (patent not applied for) invented and controlled by Pee-wee Harris.
Next day the news came that the gentleman, near whose gate the Banshee had cried, was dead, and it was found on inquiry that he had died at the very hour at which the children had seen the spectre.
Cork family of English descent, sends the two following experiences of a Banshee in her family.
By the way, it does not seem to be true that the Banshee exclusively follows families of Irish descent, for the last incident had reference to the death of a member of a Co.
That the Banshee is not confined within the geographical limits of Ireland, but that she can follow the fortunes of a family abroad, and there foretell their death, is clearly shewn by the following story.
The most famous Banshee of ancient times was that attached to the kingly house of O'Brien, Aibhill, who haunted the rock of Craglea above Killaloe, near the old palace of Kincora.
One of the oldest and best-known Banshee stories is that related in the Memoirs of Lady Fanshaw.
Three sons are born; Balor orders them all to be drowned, but the eldest is saved by the friendly banshee and taken to his father, who places him in fosterage under his brother, the great smith Gavida.
A farmer, or even a labourer, may have a banshee attached to his family--a little white creature was the description given to me by a woman who said she had seen one; others say that banshees are like birds.
The banshee may, indeed, partake to some extent of a ghostly character.
It has often been stated that the banshee is an appanage of the great, but this is not the belief of the peasantry of Ulster: many families in humble life have a bansheeattached to them.
I think the close connection between Danes, Pechts, and fairies will be apparent to all, although the fairy has more supernatural characteristics, and in the banshee assumes a very weird form.
The respect paid to the fairy thorn is no doubt a survival of tree-worship, and in the banshee we have a weird being who has little in common with mortal woman.
The banshee is never joyous; it is always either sad or malevolent.
The idea of the banshee at once flashed through my mind, for I felt none other but a banshee could have made such a sound.
One curious idiosyncrasy of the banshee is that it never manifests itself to the person whose death it is prognosticating.
But the banshee has the one admirable trait which the average Englishman obstinately refuses to recognize in the material Irish—the trait of loyalty and constancy.
But there is sorrow on the way, For I tonight have seen A banshee in the shadow pass Along the dark boreen.
Benediction, that I may rest, For all night did thebanshee weep.
I pray it may be Molly's self The banshee keens and cries, For who dare breathe the tale to her, Be it her man who dies?
The Island was full of widows and orphans and bereaved old people; there was scarce a window sill in Achill by which thebanshee had not cried.
I knew somebody was sure to come along when the O'Keefe banshee didn't show up.
An' if the O'Keefe banshee comes here--which save the mark!
And if we do have to go out, we'll see that banshee bunch clean up before we do, and pass in a blaze of glory.
It's a far way from Ireland, but not too far for the O'Keefe banshee to travel if the O'Keefe was going to click in.
But I had heard no banshee wailing--and Larry had said he could not die without that warning--no, Larry was not dead.
An' twice have I heard the banshee calling--once it was when my younger brother died an' once when my father lay waiting to be carried out on the ebb tide.
I would have told the Taitha De about the banshee raid he promised me; but I was a bit taken off my feet at the time.
If I knew when Brossard was likely to whip you again, I'd suddenly appear on the scene and shriek out like a banshee and make him stop.
Joyce had not practised that dismal moan of a banshee to no purpose in her ghost dances at home with Jack.
I warned him that I heard the very Banshee that my grandfather heard under Sir Patrick's window a few days before his death.
I wonder if our Banshee will think me worth keening for?
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