ban|shie

ban|shie
ban|shee or ban|shie «BAN shee, ban SHEE», noun.
a female spirit in Irish and Scottish folk belief, whose wail is supposed to mean that there will soon be a death in the family.
[< Irish bean sīdhe woman of the fairies]

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