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Banshee   /bænʃˈi/  /bˈænʃi/   Listen
Banshee

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





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"Banshee" Quotes from Famous Books



... warm haze of present satisfactions. We absorb to the full the pleasant glow of the hotel drawing-room, after we have comfortably repaired the ravages of the day. Bareges is a grotesque phantom, and we can hardly admit that to-night there are people still in that shuddering, shivering, banshee-haunted line of hospitals, high in its weird valley, in the cold and in the falling rain. Rayless and despairing their mood must be; escape would seem immeasurably more to be prized than cure. Even the old man of Grip and his rag brighten by comparison, and we agree in viewing ...
— A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees • Edwin Asa Dix
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Words linked to "Banshee" :   Ireland, disembodied spirit, folklore, spirit, Hibernia, Emerald Isle


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