: Traditionally, she is a female spirit whose piercing wail or "keen" heralds the death of a family member [7, 21].
If you are looking for the cultural origin of the word "Banshee" itself, it stems from Irish folklore: Banshee Origins
: Derived from the Old Irish ben síde , meaning "woman of the fairy mound" [6, 9]. : Traditionally, she is a female spirit whose