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Noun:

  • In Irish caoineadh (lament) for recently-deceased members of the O?Grady, the O?Neill, the O?Brien, the O?Connor, and the Kavanagh families, translations into English made a distinction between the banshee and other fairy folk that the original language and original stories do not seem to have, and thus the current image of the banshee.

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