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Banshee
Banshee \Ban"shee\, Banshie \Ban"shie\, n. [Gael. bean-shith
fairy; Gael. & Ir. bean woman + Gael. sith fairy.] (Celtic
Folklore)
A supernatural being supposed to warn a family of the
approaching death of one of its members, by wailing or
singing in a mournful voice, as under the windows of the
house.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
-- From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
banshee
n : (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of
impending death
-- From WordNet (r) 2.0
78 Moby Thesaurus words for "banshee":
Ariel, Befind, Corrigan, Finnbeara, Mab, Masan, Oberon, Titania,
apparition, appearance, astral, astral spirit, brownie, cluricaune,
control, departed spirit, disembodied spirit, duppy, dwarf, dybbuk,
eidolon, elf, fairy, fairy queen, fay, form, ghost, gnome, goblin,
grateful dead, gremlin, guide, hant, haunt, hob, idolum,
immateriality, imp, incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity,
kobold, larva, lemures, leprechaun, manes, materialization, oni,
ouphe, peri, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, pixie, poltergeist,
pooka, presence, puca, pwca, revenant, shade, shadow, shape,
shrouded spirit, specter, spectral ghost, spirit, spook, sprite,
sylph, sylphid, theophany, unsubstantiality, vision,
walking dead man, wandering soul, wraith, zombie
-- From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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