Banshee

Nobody seems to have laid eyes on this ’woman of the fairies’ . She is less a shape than a mournful screaming that haunts the Irish night and (according to Sir Walter Scott’s Demonology and Witchcraft) the Scottish highlands. Beneath the windows of the visited house, she foretells the death of one of the family. She is held to be a token of pure Celtic blood, with no mixture of Latin, Saxon, or Danish. The Banshee has also been heard in Wales and in Brittany. Her wail is called keening.