Banshee

Stories tagged Banshee:

• The O’Neill Banshee Aug 13, 2025

  

  There are banshees who howl like broken weather and banshees who keen like a thread drawn through cloth. The O’Neills knew theirs by the latter sound—a soft lament that ran under the wind like a river under ice.

  On the night the old lord took to his bed, a milk-grey mist wandered up from the fields and a hawthorn at the gate grew suddenly white with bloom though it was not spring. The keen began just before the lamps were lit: three notes and a fall, three notes and a fall, as if someone were teaching sorrow to count.

• The Banshee's Cry Aug 10, 2025

  

  In the ancient hills of County Cork, where the old stone castle of the O’Brien clan had stood for over seven hundred years, there lived a family whose lineage stretched back to the kings of Munster. The O’Briens were a proud and noble line, known throughout Ireland for their honor, their generosity to the poor, and their fierce loyalty to their ancestral lands.

  But the O’Briens also carried with them a gift that was both blessing and burden – they were one of the few families in Ireland who had a banshee bound to their bloodline. This spirit, whose name was Aoibheal, had watched over the O’Brien family since the first of their line had claimed the lordship of Thomond in ancient times.