Banshee
c. 1300 CE – 2026 CEattested
Ireland
- Celtic
Keens outside a house when someone in the family is about to die. Not a threat but a herald, attached to specific families rather than to places.
Known for
- wails before a death
- attached to families
- the keening woman
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.