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SONG.

The song of the Fairy woman foreboded great calamity, and men did not like to hear it. Scott calls it

“The fatal Banshi’s boding scream,”

but it was not a scream, only a wailing murmur (torman mulaid) of unearthly sweetness and melancholy.