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| ban·shee [ bán shee ] (plural ban·shees) |
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spirit who warns of death: in Gaelic folklore, a spirit of a woman who appears, wailing, to signal that somebody in the household is going to die
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| [Late 17th century. < Irish bean sidhe< Old Irish ben "woman" + side "of the fairy world"] |
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