The Banshee (2mins 42secs)
Here are some fantastic accounts of seeing and hearing the banshee as told to me by two traveller women, Nan Connors (Wexford) and Katheen Doran (Wicklow) back in 2017. Brilliant descriptive accounts and told with such conviction. Nan tells a great story from Enniscorthy of a boy who lost his comb and the banshee came to his window and dropped back the comb. Normally this story is that someone finds a comb and the banshee comes looking for it back but in this case it is the opposite and the story does have the same warning element. Aside from that, Nan then tells the story of her uncle seeing the banshee through the shafts of a caravan and she had long blonde hair but he died three months later. Kathleen then tells us that she was supposed to live with fairies and if a person was dying she'd come "to guide their soul into heaven".
Nan says she'd "bow all night". In Wexford the banshee is known as "The Bow".