What Is A Banshee?     The Supernatural Woman. . The banshee is said to have a sunken nose, scraggy hair and Fiery red eyes in hollow sockets, weeping outside the door of a clansman who is about to die. The best Clans has their own Banshee who was often thought of as an ancestor of the Clan.

By wailing the Banshee would warn that a member of the clan is about to die. When a Banshee is caught, she is obliged to tell the name of the doomed. When more than one banshee wail and sing in chorus, it is for the death of someone very holy or very great.

The banshee in Irish Gælic, is called 'bean sidhe', which means 'supernatural woman ' who wears a tattered white sheet flapping around her naked upper body. The Scottish version of the Banshee is the Bean Nighe are very closely related to the bean-nighe and cointeach. The Banshee is thought of as a guide the bring the deceased to the Clans Special place in Heaven.