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Originally Posted by TrailRunner14
Curious random question.....
Does a banshee really scream? Not sure I really know what a banshee actually is.
Just one of those things that just popped in my head.
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When you're out in a bleak place in Ireland the wind sometimes sounds like a woman keening. Not really a scream, but it will send shivers down your spine...
They say the banshee's (literally 'fairy woman' - bean sí) scream foretells the death of an important person.
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'...
At poor peace I sing
To you strangers (though song
Is a burning and crested act,
The fire of birds in
The world's turning wood,
For my sawn, splay sounds,)
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Dylan Thomas, Author's Prologue
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