bansheenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbæn.ʃiː/us/ˈbæn.ʃiː/a female spirit in traditional Irish stories whose crying sound tells you that someone in your family is going to die
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Mythological & legendary characters
- Abominable Snowman
- Anancy
- Ares
- Bellona
- bigfoot
- creature
- Cyclops
- demigod
- goddess
- hobbit
- imp
- leprechaun
- mermaid
- Odin
- Orpheus
- Pleiades
- Poseidon
- Prometheus
- Sasquatch
- tooth fairy
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Examples from literature
- He even believed,—or thought he believed,— in banshees.
- He marched his men up, with the thin wailing of a banshee in his ears.
- Long and lamentable, as the warning cry of the banshee, wailed the dreary blast.
- The west wind with an awful wail and roar rushed into the shack, carrying with it the fairies and the gnomes and the sprites and the banshees.
- Then Polly sewed, and told a story about a beautiful maiden in a lonely tower, and an old banshee that went about nights, howling, and knocking at folks' windows.
- There was a shrill scream from the banshee.