Inside The Legend Of The Banshee, The Most Chilling Spirit In Celtic Folklore
The banshee is usually described as a woman wailing or singing, and according to ancient Irish mythology, she always heralds death. Wikimedia CommonsAn 1825 sketch depict a banshee as an old woman in mourning . Long before the banshie embellish the flatware screen in the fifties , this look of Gaelic folklore had terrified citizenry youthful and old for one C . Much like the Grim Reaper , the banshie is believed to be an accompaniment to the terra firma of the dead , but there ’s far more to this nightmarish spirit than seems at first glimpse ....