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Show BANSHEE OR DEATH WRAITH. Thli la One of the Oldest and Moat Respectable Qhosts. Onn of tlio oldest and most respectable respect-able types of ghost Is tho banshee, which may bo regarded ns. a near rein-tlvo rein-tlvo of the "death wraith," Inasmuch as It glvcB wnrnlng of "Impending doath by uttering lamontablo walls, says Llpplncott's. Some families take great prldo In tho possession of such "spooks," a good example of which Is described by Mrs. Lovey of 7 Castlo terrace, London, who writes: "Tho night when my mother lay dying was one of great patn. At about nlno o'clock (hero camo a fearful wall of a woman's voice, as If swaying to and fro pa3t tho windows. I ran to tho window, but no human being could bb there, as tho room was two flights up and no houses near, She died at 10:. 10 p. m. My father and family sat nt dinner on tho evening of February ! 4, I8G8, when tho samo fearful cry ! or wall filled our house. At elpht o'clock next morning my youngest brother died qulto suddenly. Tho samo thing hnppencd on my father's death In 1887; llkowlso on tho death of my sister In 1SS9, and on tho death of another brother In 1890." This banshee seems to havo been rather out of placo In I-ondon, Bitch- walling ghosts (which are not seen and can 'not thereforo be. properly tormed ap- Ipnrltlons) being especially domesticated domesti-cated In Ireland, whnro they aro usually usual-ly associated with dilapidated castles and an Impoverished and long-descended gontry. |
