According to tradition, the banshee creature can only cry for five major Irish families: the O’Neills, the O’Briens, the O’Connors, the O’Gradys, and the Kavanaghs. Banshees appear in non-corporeal form (they have no physical body), and their ghostly visages can float several feet above ground and pass through solid objects. The Banshee, pronounced bean-sidhe is the woman of the fairies and may be an ancestral spirit appointed to forewarn members of certain ancient Irish families of their time of death. They have wild, uncombed hair and wrinkled skin. Those who have seen a banshee usually describe them as a thin, old woman wearing a traditional burial robe (typically given to those people with no family or religious identification) which is often torn and tattered. The vast majority of what we know about these mythical creatures come from what they sound like, not what they look like. There isn’t a lot of detail about banshees in Celtic mythology, mostly because it is rare for anyone to actually see one. Therefore hearing a banshee’s wail means that someone close to you will die very soon. The difference being that keening happens after the death of a person while the banshee’s cry happens before the death of a person. This leads us to wonder if the banshee, also known as “the wailing woman”, could be a ghost of a great keener.
Keeners, as they are called, were often in demand, and people would even hire the best keeners to wail for their loved ones. There is an ancient Irish tradition called “keening” where a woman will wail following a person’s death. It is said that if you hear the wail of a banshee then someone close to you, or possibly yourself, will soon meet their end. These ghostly screams are almost always heard at night and are said to sound like a blend between a woman’s scream and a night creature’s wail. A banshee is a ghostly woman whose high pitched screams prophesy the death of someone soon to come. Primarily known now as an Irish fairy creature, the Banshee legend has been passed down through generations due to its consistent haunting quality. Banshee mythology began centuries ago in the Celtic isles of Ireland, Scotland, and Great Britain.
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