Unreal Irish Folklore

The Cry of the Banshee


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The Banshee is one of Ireland’s most famous folkloric figures. A supernatural woman with a cry that foretells of death and devastation to those who hear it, stories about banshees have been terrifying listeners for hundreds of years. But has she always been this way?

 

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Sources and Further Reading

  • A Folklore Survey of County Clare by Thomas Johnson Westropp
  • The Triumphs of Turlough translated by Standish Hayes O'Grady
  • The Hostel of Da Choca translated by Whitley Stokes
  • Annals of Loch Cé
  • The Memoirs of Lady Ann Fanshawe
  • Personal Sketches of His Own Times by Sir Jonah Barrington
  • Keening Tradition
  • "The Irish Funeral Cry" in The Dublin Penny Journal 
  • O'Brien's Irish-English Dictionary

 

Music

  • The Butterfly – Sláinte
  • Return Home - Moorland Songs
  • The White Birch - Moorland Songs
  • Mountain Solitude - Moorland Songs

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