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Definition of Banshees
1. banshee [n] - See also: banshee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Banshees
Literary usage of Banshees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland by William Butler Yeats (1920)
"Ill banshees AND WARNINGS Cuchulain went on his way, and Cathbad + that had
followed him went with him. And presently they came to a ford, and there they ..."
2. Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland: A Folklore Sketch; a Handbook of by William Gregory Wood Martin (1902)
"Poured her long wailings thro' the midnight air:" The banshees warned ... When I
heard lamentations, And sad warning cries, From the banshees of many ..."
3. An Unknown Country by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1887)
"I could not say " Yes," and I would not say " No." My young friend looked much
delighted. " I am so glad ; for I believe in banshees and leprachauns, ..."
4. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1874)
"Lady Fanshaw, visiting the head of an Irish sept in his moated baronial grange,
was made aware that banshees are not peculiar to Scotland. ..."
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