What Is a Banshee??????????????

Question

I kinda stupid to ask but i need to know

Answer 1

a banshee (original spelling is ban sidhe) is a spirit that hovers around a house wherein someone is about to die and screams hideously

Answer 2

It's a evil shaman spirit!

Answer 3

http://www.socyberty.com/Folklore/Myster...

Actually maybe not....

Answer 4

    * A wailing spirit or “death omen” that will appear to be in two different places at the same time.

      www.mysticalblaze.com/GlossaryParanormal...

    * Known from Scotland and Ireland (bean sidhe) as a wailing woman whose voice at the windowsill of a house foretells of danger or death.

      gotghosts.us/definitions.html

    * Omen spirits of Scotland and Ireland.

      www.wrexhamparaskeptics.4t.com/definitio...

    * actually should be spelled Bean Si . The Scots call her Bean-Nighe (see below ). She's an Irish death spirit. Their keening fortells a death. They have very long, flowing hair and wear green dresses with grey cloaks. Their eyes are bright red because of their continuous weeping.

      dashiel.mindnmagick.com/faerie.html

    * from the Irish bean sí (literally ‘fairy woman’), a weeping harbinger of death

      www.erinhart.com/glossary.htm

    * a death omen from Irish culture that those who heard the singing or wailing soon would die.

      www.rockislandparanormal.net/reqdahdr.ht...

    * (I'm Awake Now) - In Celtic folklore, a female spirit believed to wail outside a house as a warning that a death will soon occur within the family. According to tradition, the banshee can only cry for five major Irish families: the O'Neills, O'Briens, O'Connors, O'Gradys and Kavanaghs. ...

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    * a ghost that appears in the shape of an animal to warn one of his death. Irish.

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    * an iTunes-like music manager for Linux, has support for many Zen players (http://www.banshee-project.org homepage )

      www.tutorgig.com/ed/Creative_Zen

    * (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death

      wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

    * The Banshee , from the Irish bean sí ("woman of the '" or "woman of the fairy mounds") is a female spirit in Irish mythology, usually seen as an omen of death and a messenger from the Otherworld. Her Scottish counterpart is the bean shìth (also spelled bean-shìdh''').

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banshee

    * Banshee is a vertically scrolling 2D shoot-em-up computer game that was released on Amiga A1200 and CD32 in 1994 by Core Design.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banshee (game)

    * The Banshee is a 120-pound, 13-foot cat-rigged one-design sailing dinghy with 82 square feet of sail. The boat was designed by Richard Reid in 1969. Its Portsmouth yardstick is 93.5 (2006).

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banshee (dinghy)

    * Banshee (Sean Cassidy) was a Marvel Comics superhero, a member of the X-Men. Created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Werner Roth, he first appeared in X-Men #28 (January 1967).

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banshee (comics)

    * Banshee is a free audio player for GNU/Linux operating systems, that is built upon Mono and Gtk#. It uses the GStreamer multimedia platform for encoding, and decoding various music formats, including Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and FLAC. ...

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banshee (music player)

    * In Irish folklore, a female spirit, usually taking the form of a woman whose mournful wailing warns of an impending death. ...

      en.wiktionary.org/wiki/banshee

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Answer 5

The name  Ban Sidhe is Gaelic and translates into 'faerie woman of the hills'.It is usually found in Ireland,although there is a similar figure, the Bean Nighe, the washer woman, who is found in Scotland. Both are portents of impending death and both are hag-like and unnatractive to behold. the Ban Sidhe utters a terrible wailing before a death,while the Bean nighe beats bloody clothes  in streams.

Answer 6

A Banshee is a female, Demon type creature that screams really loud.

Answer 7

exactly what tnr_lady said

http://www.hauntedamericatours.com/ghost...

http://36oh.net/dust/banshee.gif

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/photos-g...

Answer 8

ok a banshee is a type of irish ghost.banshees appear at night to foretell or mourn the death of a member of one of several anicent irish families whose surnames start with O or mac.their wailing, lamenting cry is called keening.they take on several forms appearing as a cloaked hag a young woman or a middle aged lady.banshees carry a comb tearing it through their hair in anguish like mourners did in anicent ireland.their eyes are red from centuries of weeping.if u pick up the comb of a banshee you may be cursed forever

Answer 9

your so-called Band-she is totally a band nerd who totally hates his life and would like to be a she because then he doesn't have to be a band nerd anymore and he can totally meet girls without sweating through his good-will button down shirt from 1984