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banshees  

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  • The banshee is the Irish supernatural deathmessenger par excellence. Regarded as a family messenger of death, this female spirit is said to cry when a member of Irish family is about to die, at home or abroad. [Source: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience; Banshee]

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