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What exactly is a banshee?
8 minutes Posted Oct 23, 2026 at 2:28 pm.
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With the kids getting ready for Halloween, you probably won’t see any costumes of the banshee: the shrieking harbinger of doom. What is the story behind the tradition of the banshee in Ireland?

Dr. Jenny Butler from the Study of Religions Department at UCC joins Seán to discuss.