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Quotation from Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by W. B. Yeats (editor)
“is an attendant fairy that follows the old families, and none but them, and wails before a death.”
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, The Solitary Fairies, The Banshee (section note) (Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1888 (Project Gutenberg text))
Yeats's definition of the banshee, introducing the tales of her keening.
Citation: "is an attendant fairy that follows the old families, and none but them, and wails before a death." — W. B. Yeats (editor), Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, The Solitary Fairies, The Banshee (section note) (Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1888 (Project Gutenberg text)). (id fairy-and-folk-tales-of-the-irish-peasantry-q6)
Portrait: William Butler Yeats by George Charles Beresford, George Charles Beresford, Public domain.
