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O'Donnell Elliott. The Banshee
The Banshee
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
THE DEFINITION AND ORIGIN OF BANSHEES
CHAPTER II
SOME HISTORICAL BANSHEES
CHAPTER III
THE MALEVOLENT BANSHEE
CHAPTER IV
THE BANSHEE ABROAD
CHAPTER V
CASES OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY
CHAPTER VI
DUAL AND TRIPLE BANSHEE HAUNTINGS
CHAPTER VII
A SIMILAR CASE FROM SPAIN
CHAPTER VIII
THE BANSHEE ON THE BATTLE-FIELD
CHAPTER IX
THE BANSHEE AT SEA
CHAPTER X
ALLEGED COUNTERPARTS OF THE BANSHEE
CHAPTER XI
THE BANSHEE IN POETRY AND PROSE
CHAPTER XII
THE BANSHEE IN SCOTLAND
CHAPTER XIII
MY OWN EXPERIENCES WITH THE BANSHEE
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Elliott O'Donnell
Published by Good Press, 2022
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About the middle of the last century, when my relative was in her teens, some friends of hers, the O’D.’s, were living in a big old-fashioned country house, somewhere between Ballinanty and Hospital in the County of Limerick. The family consisted of Mr O’D., who had been something in India in his youth and was now very much of a recluse, though much esteemed locally on account of his extreme piety and good-heartedness; Mrs O’D., who, despite her grey hair and wrinkled countenance, still retained traces of more than ordinary good looks; Wilfred, a handsome but decidedly headstrong young man of between twenty-five and thirty; and Ellen, a blue-eyed, golden-haired girl of the true Milesian type of Irish beauty.
My relative was on terms of the greatest intimacy with the whole family, but especially with the two younger folk, and it was generally expected that she and Wilfred would make what is vulgarly termed a “match of it.” Indeed, the first of the ghostly happenings that she experienced in connection with the O’D.’s actually occurred the very day Wilfred took the long-anticipated step and proposed to her.
