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Ban`shee

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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Among the Irish, and in some parts of the Highlands and Brittany, a fairy, believed to be attached to a family, who gave warnings by wailings of an approaching death in it, and kept guard over it.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Ban`shee'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​b/banshee.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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