Witness recollections, of this Irish fairy; the Banshee infamous harbinger of death.
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- čas přidán 11. 12. 2021
- Greetings from Ireland! The Banshee is one of the more well known fairies from Irish folklore. It is said the peasantry imitated her cry as the "keen" or cry of mourning, given at Irish funerals in the last century and before. She is known to follow certain families and if you hear her cry, someone close to you will die shortly afterwards. In this video my own late grandmother gives an account of hearing the banshee when she was a young woman.
W.B. Yeats included almost every sort of Irish folk tale in his marvelous compendium of Irish fairy tales which he collected and edited in 1892. Yeats was fascinated by Irish myths and folklore and joined forces with writers of the Irish literary revival. He studied Irish folk tales in the British museum and chose to reintroduce the glory and significance of Ireland's past through his unique literature. I have drawn heavily on his book to give you an overview of the rich culture that existed in Ireland in times gone past and some evidence that, if the fairies are still not believed in modern Ireland, they are certainly still respected.
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Welcome to my channel, launched this month December 2021; that is dedicated to the history and culture of Ireland. This is not set out to be a history lesson, but a ramble through some stories you might find interesting about Ireland from an Irishman! So if you fancy some tales about horsemen and highwaymen, banshee's and fairies, soldiers and rebels, legends and folklore, saints and scholars, please like and subscribe, I post once per month. Thank you for watching. Ronan. - Zábava
I see her when my uncle died around 02.30 in the morning. I was woken up around the same time in my bed & turned around to see a dark grey/white figure hovering in the room. You can’t see her face because of the long hair over the face.
My mother heard one when her brother died.
My late Grandmother died in her 90's. She was born in 1900 lived through the war of independence, the civil war and the emergency. She was a tough no nonsense woman and not someone prone to flights of fancy or imagination. She swore that she saw a Banshee when she was a young girl and had some other encounters with what she referred to as the " Gentry".
That generation had some great stories. I wish I had taken more of an interest in them when they were still around.
It's always too late!
I love the Irish!
Holy shit, feb. 26 where I live, I heard something like a scream with clicking or clapping noise,never heard anything like it, stepped out my front door with a flashlight and sharp grandfurs brux hunters axe saw a dark shadow like figure make the noise and then it melted into a wooden privacy fence. Needless to say I went right back in my house. My ancestors are partly from Ireland, Fitzgerald
Scary stuff, hope all is well now, thanks for the comment.
I could listen to you all day, I have a degree in Celtic Studies from Boston College
Thanks Karin, much appreciated
Cheers mate. My Irish ancestors are supposed to have one of these girls attached to our old lot. Meelin is her name.
Let's hope she neverbcalls!
@@primalireland-histcult Especially when i`m over there
The first one I heard (In Gregory Michigan) came from the very top of the trees. It was blood chilling and can not be replicated with human lungs it went on so loud and long. It was female and warbled in an owlish like way and stretched into the name "Mike!" I just happen to be standing with two Mikes....and they both ran leaving my along in the road. The second one I heard (right before my uncle Tivis died) came from the shore of a pond on my grandma's land. My Granma just died in December, and we didn't hear one....instead a owl flew by in broad daylight making noises just after we'd got the call that she had died in the hospital.
Hello Ronan, new subscriber here. It's a nice channel you have. I have some Irish ancestry myself and though I don't recall having ever heard the Banshee's wail, I do have to say that I literally got chills when you were talking of Kennedy's assassination. I have a very strong memory and remember that day very clearly. I was about two and a half years old when it happened. It was just after lunch and the neighbor lady came running upstairs to tell us. My mother didn't believe it at first, but then she turned on the radio and heard it for herself. Then my father - he was military - came home early and said they had closed all the bases and put them on alert. The weather was quite hazy and there was an ominous silence that hung over everything. No sounds of people, cars, or anything - not even the birds were chirping. Everything was just deathly still. Quite the memory for a two year old to grow up with, huh?! Anyway, I've never been to Ireland, but would love to visit some day. I think my ancestors come from the County Limerick area and are supposedly descended from one of the Eoghanacht clans. Ireland has such a rich ancient history and I feel a very close connection to my Irish heritage. It draws me in in an inexplicable way. I don't know how to describe it. Anyhow, thank you for your channel, you have some fascinating content. ☘️
Thanks for your lovely comments Kimber Blue, I do remember when I was a boy in the old Irish cottages I would visit with my mother there would be three pictures on the wall, one was of God, one of the pope and the other would be JFK, from his visits in the early 60's, as an "Irishman" he was quite revered . I knew who the pictures of God and the pope were but not JFK, I had to ask my Mum "who is that man?"!!
Hey 👋 I have subbed and liked the video greetings from Athy in Kildare 😊.When I was 9 my grandad passed away in July of 1985 he was a watchhorn but a seemingly according to my aunts and uncles they heard the banshee out side of the home the night my grand dad passed away.So she has to haunt other families besides the main 5 Irish family surnames
Thanks for the sub👍 It seems the tradition can vary from county to county but ends with the same result!
Everything is alright in my family thanks. I grew up in the country originally, I've heard and seen things most people havent, like a mountain lion scream. It sounds like a women being murdered, very scary. What I heard and saw this past weekend was unlike anything I've heard before. At first I thought it was someone with a aztec death whistle but they don't have a clapping or clicking noise in them. Strange thing is your video came up on CZcams two days later,, and I was like that is exactly what I heard. Part of my fathers family came from county Kildare. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
You are welcome, while it is said the Banshee "follows" families, it doesn't haunt them, most only ever hear it once.
One follows my family here in the US, I'm an O'C and my mother was an O'Donnell. It was not a screaming or screeching woman, rather, she cried, mournful sobbing/weeping, it got louder and trailed off like waves of the sea, in and out, outside the front window. I didn't get up and look out the window because it scared the ****out of me. I lay there petrified tbh.
Thanks for that, actually I had a similar experience, a sobbing like a child outside my bedroom window and like you was too scared to look out. But This happened after the death of my a grand aunt in 1998,
@@primalireland-histcult lol, hairs on my neck standing up, wanted to wake up my gf at the time mainly because I was SCARED! 🤣. I didn't, ended up just laying there in a cold sweat hoping not to hear it again, eventually fell back asleep.
Next day she says "I heard something weird last night, I thought your sister came home and was crying downstairs so I went down there, when I was down there I heard the crying from upstairs." Then she freaked out an ran back upstairs, lol. Sometimes after that I would make the noise and it would freak her out "ehhh huh huh huh" mourning woman. What can we do? If you're Gaelic nobility God has assigned us one of these fairy women. My grandmother who was very stern and religious had heard it decades earlier and the family would make fun of her. I learned later it's no joke.
My son heard one when he was 8. He came downstairs and said ‘ Mum, mum, I heard a woman screaming. I heard a woman screaming all night. Didn’t you hear her?’ and couldn’t believe that we had not. I didn’t think too much of it but literally 5 minutes later we got a call from my brother that the doctors said that there was nothing more they could do for my mum and we should come and say her goodbyes. She had been and out of hospital all her life with a chronic condition but until this moment we didn’t know she was going to die. My son is on the autism spectrum and I do wonder if that has something to do with it. I do come from very old Irish and Scottish families on both sides - got it tested and we only have 2% Scandinavian.
Two weeks after she passed my son came of school and said ‘ Mum I saw nanny today’. I was sceptical and asked if she was scary/see through etc. He said ‘No, she was just in her ordinary clothes standing in the corner of the canteen smiling at me’. I was taken aback because what he didn’t know is that my mum had volunteered one morning a week in the school canteen when I was in infants and often said it was her favourite part of our young childhood. My husband is from India and he said that they have intense rituals for 2 weeks after the death because that is when the soul is thought to linger. There was also a strange thing with the jacarandah tree outside her hospital window. When she went into the room it was in full bloom. The day before she died there were a few straggle flowers on it. The next morning, after she died ( I was there when she passed) the tree was completely bare. When she died she took three or four deep breaths and then a really long exhale.
Thanks for the story and it's quite incredible!
Nice video, thanks
Thanks for the compliment and taking the time to comment!
I remember my grandmother, mother and aunt all swear they heard the Bean Sidhe when my grandfather died back in the early 70’s in Ohio.
They all related it differently, one said it sounded like cats wailing, another that it sounded like women wailing and another like children crying.
Interesting to hear of your familiy as a group experience this, most people are alone and therefore open to ridicule, it was a cat or fox etc.
I live in the u.s., state is arkansas
Holy shit, feb. 26 where I live, I heard something like a scream with clicking or clapping noise,never heard anything like it, stepped out my front door with a flashlight and sharp grandfurs brux hunters axe saw a dark shadow like figure make the noise and then it melted into a wooden privacy fence. Needless to say I went right back in my house. My ancestors are partly from Ireland, Fitzgerald
Holy shit, feb. 26 where I live, I heard something like a scream with clicking or clapping noise,never heard anything like it, stepped out my front door with a flashlight and sharp grandfurs brux hunters axe saw a dark shadow like figure make the noise and then it melted into a wooden privacy fence. Needless to say I went right back in my house. My ancestors are partly from Ireland, Fitzgerald