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"Och," said Moya, "I am heart-scalded to have it to tell you, and I know you will laugh at me; but, say what you will, there is something bad over uz, for the banshee was about the house all night, and she has me almost frightened out of my wits with her shouting and bawling."
They say she generally names the name of the party that is to die; but there is no case known of the sick person ever recoverin' afther she has given the warnin' of death." "It is a strange and wild superstition," observed Woodward. "But a very true one, sir," replied the cook; "every one knows that a Banshee follows the Goodwin family." "What! the Goodwins of Beech Grove?" said Harry.
A Milesian gentleman showed us through them. It is the correct thing to have a ruin on your place; it is a kind of patent of gentility. If a banshee could be thrown in along with a ruin, a new man would give a great price for an old place. But banshees are getting scarce and decline to be caught.
It was a dozen times at least, perhaps two dozen times, that she told him that, whatever had come to Kathleen, she was not dead that she could not be dead, because the banshee had not moaned and cried about the house, as she was sure to do before any one of the O'Briens could die.
Sure that same night the Banshee howled To fright the evil dame, And fairy folks, who loved Kathleen, With funeral torches came. She watched them glancing through the trees, And glimmering down the hill; They crept before the dead-vault door, And there they all stood still! "Get up, old man! the wake-lights shine!"
It may have been the white victim of a red man's jealousy that haunts the region of the butte called "Watch Dog," or it may have been an Indian woman who was killed there, but there is a banshee in the desert whose cries have chilled the blood that would not have cooled at the sight of a bear or panther.
A man at the mess-table next ours heard his remark and burst out laughing. "I've heard tell o' the Flying Dutchman being seen in stormy weather when going round the Cape," he said, speaking across the table in our direction; "but I can't say as how I ever heard before of a banshee adrift on the wide Atlantic Ocean!"
Every girl in the gasse knew the story of the "silent woman." She is a spirit with a lengthy pedigree how lengthy no man can say, as its roots go back into the dim, mysterious past. The most famous Banshee of ancient times was that attached to the kingly house of O'Brien, Aibhill, who haunted the rock of Craglea above Killaloe, near the old palace of Kincora.
In return for this mark of attention, Tom immediately walked upon his hands to the window, and if the expression be allowable looked in with his shoes: besides rattling his feet upon the glass like a Banshee upside down.
As the corpse-candle is obviously a phantasm whose invariable custom is to foretell death, it must, I think, be classified with that species of elementals which I have named for want of a more appropriate title CLANOGRIAN. CLANOGRIANS embrace every kind of national and family ghost, such as The White Owl of the Arundels, the Drummer of the Airlies, and the Banshee of the O'Neills and O'Donnells.
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