A version of the banshee appears throughout Celtic myth and legend in Scotland, Wales and best known, Irleand. The tales are numerous and the accounts conflicting, but the oldest tales tell of the Bean Sídhe, woman of the barrow hills, who wails her lament for the dead, the caoineadh (from whence the English word “keening” is derived).
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