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The insulted banshee has never since returned; and although several members of that family have since closed their mortal career, still the warning cry was never given; and it is supposed that the injured spirit will never visit her ancient haunts until every one of the existing generation shall have "slept with their fathers." Jack O'Malley and his friend Harry lived some years after.
The hermit tilted his beard and laughed a laugh that was either the chatter of a banshee in a storm or the rattle of pebbles in a tin box. His visitors' flesh seemed ready to drop from their bones. They huddled together and cast fearful eyes over their shoulders. They whispered. "A vampire!" said one. "A ghoul!" said another. "A Druid before the sacrifice," murmured another.
Again and again that strange sound struck their ears. "The banshee!" exclaimed Nora, placing her hand on Sophy's shoulder with alarm. "Surely I have always believed that it was a mere superstition of the ignorant peasantry a phantom of the imagination; but here is a dreadful reality. Yes, it surely must be the banshee, and what does it forebode?
"But if you could have seen yourself solemnly disclaiming the banshee" another twinkle showed in his eyes "and then with all this sunshine and this wide-open world" he shrugged his shoulders "it's hard to visualize anything such as you and Huldricksson have described." "I know how hard it is, Larry," I answered.
"You won't be frightened, then, Nora?" "Frightened? No. Not of our own Banshee." "They say," began Biddy, "that if you see a spirit, and come face to face with it, you are good for " "What?" said Nora. "If you hold out during the year you have seen the spirit, you are good to live for another ten; but during that first year you are in extreme danger of dying.
She pinched his arm, and he started back in terror. "So firm and plump, to make the mouth water. Sell him to me, Phoenix!" "Nonsense," said the Phoenix sharply. "What we desire " At this instant the contents of the saucepan began to hiss and bubble. "Whoops, dearies, the brew is boiling!" shrieked the Banshee, and she hobbled back to the fire to resume her work.
A few minutes later, Bradley found the others of the party. The four returned cautiously to the spot where the creature lay and after convincing themselves that it was quite dead, came close to it. It was an arduous and gruesome job extricating Tippet's mangled remains from the powerful jaws, the men working for the most part silently. "It was the work of the banshee all right," muttered Brady.
And, seizing the blunderbuss, and looking wickedly at Jack, he vociferated, "By Hercules, I would drive the contents of this through their sowls who dare annoy us." "Better for you to shoot your mother than fire at the banshee, anyhow," remarked Jack. "Psha!" said Harry, looking contemptuously at his companion.
But sometimes the banshee leaves Ireland with the family that she belongs to, and so did ours. Wouldn't I know her voice? Didn't I hear her wail and scream before your father died, so many, many years ago? Oh, I'ld never forget it. I'ld know her voice." "Then why didn't you hear her," John asked "before Kitty died, and why didn't you know before that she was to die?"
When materialised, to quote only a few instances, one banshee is in the form of a beautiful girl, another is in the form of a hideous prehistoric hag, and another in the form of a head only a head with rough matted hair and malevolent, bestial eyes. Scottish Ghosts
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