Long ago I heard the people saying that the Banshee like a child. The people do not like to hear the Banshee crying because it is a very frightful cry.
I often heard the people saying that there is a race of people that the Banshee follows when they are going to die.
Once upon a time i heard the people saying there was an old man, lived at Greenhill, and one night he was going to St. Johnston and he heard a great noise and at first he thought that it was a child crying.
He told the people and they went to hear the cry and there was a man there that heard the Banshee before and he siad that it was the Banshee. A few days after that the old man got sick and he soon died and he was one of the people that the Banshee followed.
From the National Folklore Collection, UCD.
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