[ban-shee, ban-shee] 
| (in Irish folklore) a spirit in the form of a wailing woman who appears to or is heard by members of a family as a sign that one of them is about to die. |
| ban·shee also ban·shie (bān'shē) n. A female spirit in Gaelic folklore believed to presage, by wailing, a death in a family. [Irish Gaelic bean sídhe, woman of the fairies, banshee : bean, woman (from Old Irish ben; see gwen- in Indo-European roots) + sídhe, fairy (from Old Irish síde, genitive of síd, fairy mound; see sed- in Indo-European roots).] |
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