#24 - Banshee

Five Minute Folklore

Oct 25, 201829:19Society & Culture

Celtic folklore. On this Halloween episode, I decided to look at the most famous ghost of them all - The Banshee, an omen of death which originates in Irish folklore. This episode looks at the possible origins of the myt...

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