"According to legend, a banshee wails around a house if someone in the house is about to die. When several banshees appeared at once, it indicated the death of someone great or holy. The tales sometimes recount that the woman, though called a fairy, was a ghost, often of a specific murdered woman, or woman who died in childbirth. Banshees are frequently described as dressed in white or grey, and often having long, fair hair which they brush with a silver comb. Other stories portray banshees as dressed in green, red or black with a grey cloak.".


I was thinking that the banshee's presence in death may be the actually cause of death, not simply a symbolic rite of passage into the after life. in the movie "man bites dog" a man literally kills an old women by merely scaring her to death. He did not even have to do anything. I just imagine someone dying of a terminal disease, lying in bed, and one of these banshees showing up, and taking away their life from scaring them to death. But the doctors have no reason to think it is anything other than cancer.

These are not nice creatures.