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* In [[Myth/CelticMythology Irish and Scottish Gaelic folklore]], the banshee (or ''[[SpellMyNameWithAnS bean-sidhe]]'', sometimes called a "''caoineag''" in Scotland) is a [[TheFairFolk fairy-woman]] and often guardian spirit of the old Gaelic families who can [[PortentOfDoom foretell death]] in "her" family. She [[HowlOfSorrow wails]] and [[OneWomanWail cries]] through the night to warn the family that one of them will soon die; if the family hears her crying three nights in a row, they know that they should begin planning a funeral. As she can foretell death in the family that she protects, the banshee is also [[DeathWail grieving]] with the family as well as warning them of impending death. When multiple ''mná-sídhe'' (plural of ''bean-sidhe'') are heard wailing at once, it foretells the death of an important political or religious figure. She is heard more often than seen, and most often the banshee is depicted as old and menacing, but she can also appear as a strikingly beautiful woman of any age that suits her. She is capable of wailing overseas for relatives far away from the homeland too.

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* In [[Myth/CelticMythology Irish and Scottish Gaelic folklore]], the banshee (or ''[[SpellMyNameWithAnS bean-sidhe]]'', sometimes called a "''caoineag''" in Scotland) bean-sidhe]]), is a [[TheFairFolk fairy-woman]] and often guardian spirit of the old Gaelic families who can [[PortentOfDoom foretell death]] in "her" family. She [[HowlOfSorrow wails]] and [[OneWomanWail cries]] through the night to warn the family that one of them will soon die; if the family hears her crying three nights in a row, they know that they should begin planning a funeral. As she can foretell death in the family that she protects, the banshee is also [[DeathWail grieving]] with the family as well as warning them of impending death. When multiple ''mná-sídhe'' (plural of ''bean-sidhe'') are heard wailing at once, it foretells the death of an important political or religious figure. She is heard more often than seen, and most often the banshee is depicted as old and menacing, but she can also appear as a strikingly beautiful woman of any age that suits her. She is capable of wailing overseas for relatives far away from the homeland too.

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