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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
banshee /banˈʃiː, ˈbanʃiː/

▶noun (in Irish legend) a female spirit whose wailing warns of a death in a house.

– origin C17: from Ir. bean sídhe, from Old Ir. ben síde ‘woman of the fairies’.

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