Explaining The Banshee, Ireland 1986

Ойын-сауық

Professor Patricia Lysaght, an authority on the Banshee, talks about the traditions, history and beliefs surrounding the Irish harbinger of death.
Dr Patricia Lysaght who lectures in the Department of Folklore in University College Dublin (UCD), has recently written a book about the Banshee.
A supernatural figure in Irish folk tradition and an omen of death, the Banshee cries for certain families in Ireland. In particular, those whose names begin with O or Mc, and the old Anglo-Norman families.
Heard in most parts of Ireland prior to a person’s death by a family member, neighbour or someone in the community, her eerie cry indicates that the man or woman in question is not long for this world,
It’s a long lonesome cry.
There are different stories about the Banshee tradition throughout the length and breadth of Ireland. In counties Wexford, Carlow and parts of Wicklow she is called The Bow, in Waterford the Bibe, and in Tipperary and Mayo she is known as the Bean Chaointe.
People all over the island may also see the Banshee, with the exception of counties Cork and Kerry, where she is heard but never seen. Described as a small woman she is dressed in black and combs her long white hair.
In spite of the fact that many folk traditions are on the wane, one Late Late Show audience member tells Gay that her mother saw the Banshee in Inchicore.
A small little woman in black with long white hair, and she was combing, and she was moaning and groaning.
Another woman from Malahide has heard the Banshee herself.
It was the most terrifying sound I ever heard...I heard it and I felt it.
But even if someone does hear or see the Banshee, she is never ever approached, says Dr Lysaght. Why is this?
In belief systems the otherworld is left alone, and if you leave the otherworld alone, it will leave you alone.
This episode of The Late Late Show was broadcast on 28 February 1986. The presenter is Gay Byrne.

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  • @Blondie101010100
    @Blondie101010100 Жыл бұрын

    They should do re-runs of that era of The Late Late Show... in place of the current Late Late Show.

  • @baxpiz1289

    @baxpiz1289

    Жыл бұрын

    they do that w johnny carson and ed sullivan on meTV in the states

  • @Discover-Ireland

    @Discover-Ireland

    Жыл бұрын

    Spot on

  • @connienail4013

    @connienail4013

    Жыл бұрын

    Great idea!!!

  • @edmundpower1250

    @edmundpower1250

    Жыл бұрын

    And the excellent picture quality of this era is better than American shows. Gay was superb

  • @seanoriain6477

    @seanoriain6477

    Жыл бұрын

    Good idea and would be a big improvement on turbridy I can't stand him such a fake

  • @jaymcd8577
    @jaymcd8577 Жыл бұрын

    The past is a different country, and indeed so was Ireland. God I miss it

  • @freebornjohn2687
    @freebornjohn2687 Жыл бұрын

    Good to hear an intelligent and knowledgeable person talking about this cultural tradition.

  • @toniacollinske2518
    @toniacollinske2518 Жыл бұрын

    After my sister's death in hospice, I had to wait for a lift home. Facing a field area, I stood there and wailed uncontrollably. I've often wondered if anyone thought they were hearing the banshee.

  • @vvelvettearss

    @vvelvettearss

    Жыл бұрын

    aww :( My condolences

  • @AngelLivesMatter

    @AngelLivesMatter

    8 ай бұрын

    🌹

  • @TT_1221
    @TT_1221 Жыл бұрын

    Gay was in a league of his own as a Presenter. Superb!

  • @radharcanna

    @radharcanna

    Жыл бұрын

    I didn’t always like his views but he was a consummate TV presenter. He had a genuine interest in peoples’ stories, unlike today’s self-conscious preening presenters.

  • @mb-vf3qb

    @mb-vf3qb

    Жыл бұрын

    Sooooo agree

  • @karenoleary7262
    @karenoleary7262 Жыл бұрын

    God I miss this man, this was entertainment and worth watching,

  • @alastair6356
    @alastair6356 Жыл бұрын

    This is a tradition in Scotland to, this spans the celtic culture. We all lead modern lives now and as a result we are not connected to the land or have the spirituality that our ancestors had.

  • @jamestyrrell4632
    @jamestyrrell4632 Жыл бұрын

    My mother and her sister was sat with a dying woman in the ladies house and they heard the banshee keening outside..the old lady sat up and spit twice to the bottom of the bed..they said the wailing was terrifying so much so my aunt ran home leaving my mother alone and the old lady started with the death rattle(loud weird breathing)and was dead ten minutes later..she went and got her mother and they started the cleaning and laying out process..Balinasloe 1934.

  • @oceantiara

    @oceantiara

    Жыл бұрын

    Ah sure now

  • @lydialily846

    @lydialily846

    Жыл бұрын

    What a fantastic story , ❤

  • @HogandDice
    @HogandDice Жыл бұрын

    Patricia was one of my lecturers, great woman

  • @jakmak1199

    @jakmak1199

    Жыл бұрын

    and handy with the hurley too.

  • @radharcanna

    @radharcanna

    Жыл бұрын

    Still going strong, researching, lecturing and publishing.

  • @saorgaza6068
    @saorgaza6068 Жыл бұрын

    Around 1970 my father in our home in Tyrone was awakened in the middle of the night by what he called 'an unearthly scream' and he then woke my mother up. The scream had stopped when my mother woke up, but he described it to her as like nothing natural nor like any sound he'd ever heard before. He said to her it would be what he would imagine a banshee might sound like. A few minutes later his nephew knocked the door asking him to come to a wake as a neighbour up the hill behind the house had passed away.

  • @pinkzweibel985

    @pinkzweibel985

    Жыл бұрын

    😮wow ..

  • @brianm2881

    @brianm2881

    10 ай бұрын

    I don't believe this story for several reasons. Chief among them being that a banshee cries *before* a death, not after. The wailing serves as an omen in that regard. Secondly, your father woke up in the middle of the night, woke your mother, and then a few minutes later a nephew came to invite him to a wake. A wake in the middle of the night? There's no such thing.

  • @Art-is-craft

    @Art-is-craft

    5 ай бұрын

    The Banshee does not scream it wails/cries.

  • @gracesanity6314
    @gracesanity6314 Жыл бұрын

    I have never watched The late late show after Gay left. He was so brilliant at this.

  • @laetitialogan2017
    @laetitialogan2017 Жыл бұрын

    I've heard the banshee..on my own in the house that night. I broke out in a cold sweat out of fear. She cried outside my window..and I rang my sister under the duvet..I was in my late 30's and had never heard a cry like it. I rang my parents the following day..told them, and sure enough my Dads first cousin ( Kelly) had died. I never met the man, but my father said she cried for his cousin..I'll never forget it as long as I live..

  • @shane6115

    @shane6115

    Жыл бұрын

    Grow up will you.

  • @laetitialogan2017

    @laetitialogan2017

    Жыл бұрын

    @@shane6115 I know what I heard..and who the hell are you to say otherwise??? Keep your shit comments to yourself...

  • @shane6115

    @shane6115

    Жыл бұрын

    @@laetitialogan2017. Ah come on it’s 2023 you do know that I take it, and people laugh of this type of stuff, it’s entertaining if anything.

  • @saorgaza6068

    @saorgaza6068

    Жыл бұрын

    @@shane6115 I don't agree. I think that most of us nowadays are more distracted or distanced from banshees and other supernatural phenomena. This doesn't mean they weren't or aren't real phenomena in my opinion

  • @mr.afrikaans1747

    @mr.afrikaans1747

    Жыл бұрын

    It’s a fox, you bellend.

  • @ilanamillion8942
    @ilanamillion8942 Жыл бұрын

    The book by Patricia Lysaght is excellent and I highly recommend it.

  • @monad8880
    @monad8880 Жыл бұрын

    I saw the Banshee in Child form, when i was a teenager. I saw Her in a field across the road from where I stood. I turned to tell my friend and in the blink of an eye, when we looked back to the field, She was gone. I heard the banshee later in life when i was accompanied by my Sisters, we all heard Her cries/wails. We hitched a lift in to town together that night in the early 90's. The hair stood upright on our arms when the car driver told us His CB handle was "Banshee" Confirmation or what? She is definitely real (ethereal) lastly .. My Parents have "Mc" and "O" surname, Stay blessed

  • @Art-is-craft

    @Art-is-craft

    5 ай бұрын

    The human consciousness is capable of incredible things. We enter a virtual reality every night.

  • @davidreay5911
    @davidreay5911 Жыл бұрын

    In the 90's I was working as a truck driver, and one night I had a dream about a work colleague and myself. We had delivered two trucks to a site and as I walked away down a dark path with Martin following, I heard a sound that sounded like the ocean, sort of a static hiss. I sensed to my right a dark body of water as I 'heard' a voice say, ' Would you like a lift'. ( we were miles from our home town). I shouted 'yes' and turned to shout to Martin, ' where do you want to go', and to my amazement he said ' Gainsborough'. Confused in the dream I said, ' but you don't live in Gainsborough'. Then I awoke. That morning I spoke with Martin as I was driving into a quarry and he was driving out. I asked him where he was loaded for and he said Grantham would you believe, a joke because it was a regular run. I paused and considered whether to tell him of my dream, but decided not to. Another truck behind wanted the road so we continued with our work. Next morning, loaded for a delivery to a farm in the country I radioed for information as to the site. The dispatcher told me to wait, and I noticed, in my mirror, a man walking towards me from where I had driven by. The dispatcher radioed back telling me that the customer was walking to meet me, then he said, ' Did you hear about Martin'. My first thought was that he had ' dyked' the truck.'No' I replied. 'He died last night'. I believe in the dream I heard ' Charon', 'The mythical Ferryman'. 'Don't pay the Ferryman'.

  • @martinacooney200

    @martinacooney200

    Жыл бұрын

    O m g Lord rest him 🙏

  • @AngelLivesMatter

    @AngelLivesMatter

    8 ай бұрын

    🌹

  • @Discover-Ireland
    @Discover-Ireland Жыл бұрын

    I grew up with all these stories from my grandmother

  • @oceantiara

    @oceantiara

    Жыл бұрын

    Me the same

  • @m.forrestal5893

    @m.forrestal5893

    Жыл бұрын

    I remember an elderly substitue teacher reading Banshee stories when I was in infants! Wasn't scared though.

  • @DashDrones
    @DashDrones Жыл бұрын

    Loved this. Smart lady.

  • @AceKiller9000
    @AceKiller9000 Жыл бұрын

    I heard a Banshee while hill walking as a teenager in Ireland. I froze instantly, thick fog surrounded me, and I was cut off from the rest of the group. I ran and ran until I found the group, didnt tell anyone, was terrified. True story but not expecting anyone to believe me. It was a lot longer wail than a fox or any cat or owl, which I am familiar with. At least 20 seconds contant tone high pitched wailing not like a fox

  • @Art-is-craft

    @Art-is-craft

    5 ай бұрын

    Banshee cries and does not scream

  • @eileenahern-ku9nx

    @eileenahern-ku9nx

    10 күн бұрын

    Another person told me he too heard the banshee on his honeymoon first night in Rome. He said he froze with the sound ❤

  • @yvonnnelalor6162
    @yvonnnelalor6162 Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful to see THE Master at work ❤

  • @christianmccann9400
    @christianmccann9400 Жыл бұрын

    I remember my Gran telling me years ago ... that her and her sister heard her crying, they both looked out the window and could see her sitting on her neighbours garden wall combing her hair .. the next day they found out their neighbour had died that night ... ...

  • @michaelbuckley8986
    @michaelbuckley8986 Жыл бұрын

    My relatives from West Cork told stories about the banshee when I used to visit from Dublin in the late 1960’s.I Also heard that the shriek of the vixen sounded a bit like the wail of the banshee.

  • @Art-is-craft

    @Art-is-craft

    5 ай бұрын

    The Banshee does not scream it wails/cries. There more than likely is something in the human consciousness that enables humans to live through these ideas.

  • @Art-is-craft

    @Art-is-craft

    4 ай бұрын

    @@Glint396 Such concepts are in every culture. Did you as a child ever experience shadow people.

  • @johnmurphy9304
    @johnmurphy9304 Жыл бұрын

    Definitely heard of the Bow in Wexford growing up….combing her hair and screeching…

  • @patriciaquinn5975
    @patriciaquinn59753 ай бұрын

    Heard her in London, after my land lady died in her house where I was renting a room. A week later her brother died a week later suddenly in his sleep. They were very close.

  • @ConnollyStationChicago1936
    @ConnollyStationChicago1936 Жыл бұрын

    My grandmother was born in Galway, my dad, and then me born in Chicago. I grew up hearing of the Banshee, and also the Ghost of Boughs and the Sack Em Ups. If anyone here in the comments section has anything on these other 2, I’d so appreciate to know more.

  • @jonathanj.7344

    @jonathanj.7344

    Жыл бұрын

    Hi, I've just checked this out on Google. I could not find anything on the Ghost of Boughs, but did find on KZread, Mistletoe Bough, a ghostly tale. There are several results for this on Google also so it's a well-known legend .Maybe this could be the story you are after? Also found on Google that the Sack 'Em Ups were Irish body snatchers who dug up freshly buried corpses for medical researchers. Hope this helps.

  • @margaretnesbeth593
    @margaretnesbeth593 Жыл бұрын

    I second the request to bring back Gaybo, I miss his talk show, he was the Best, America wanted him but he would not go at any price

  • @braveandfaithful
    @braveandfaithful Жыл бұрын

    Aoibhéal is the Bean Sí of North Munster who told Brian Ború he would die the next day in battle, She is the Banshee of the O'Briens, Hogan, and the DalCassian fam.Her sister Clíodhna is the Bean Sí of South Munster, Cork, Kerry etc. She is responsible for the Blarney. Mc is Son of O' is descendent or grandchild of. I heard the Banshee when I was young, my family are Kelly, Shonah or Seannaigh is our Banshee. All Irish families have a Banshee, all native ones, that is! Yes, that caller got a premonition before Her mother died.

  • @eileenkennedy46

    @eileenkennedy46

    Жыл бұрын

    Ah, thank you so much, great to see your post. I am a Kennedy and I have seen the Bean Sī you speak of. I did not know the specifics of the lineage, much appreciated.

  • @braveandfaithful

    @braveandfaithful

    Жыл бұрын

    @@eileenkennedy46 Kennedy was Vikings from Iceland and Norway, Cennaidh(Kennedy) O'Brien was Brian Ború's real name, grandson of O'Brien. Your Banshee or Bean Sí is also Aoibheal. The Grey Rock in Killaloe would be Her residence. They quarried Clíodhna's Rock in Cork, Lagan Quarries.

  • @whitetroutchannel
    @whitetroutchannelАй бұрын

    the hair comb and her brushin her hair is how i heard her in stories and the death wail of course, in county down

  • @oceantiara
    @oceantiara Жыл бұрын

    😢I howl like the banshee coz I miss my only Irish Mama RIP

  • @tonycarton8054
    @tonycarton8054 Жыл бұрын

    my granny from sligo ,ballisodare often talked about the banshees and other phenomena like the the club-footed man at the cross roads .She worked in Brownlow castle in Lurgan .I often asked her about ghosts ........she said there were no ghosts there .In my young mind i thought 365 rooms ....no ghosts ,what a waste lol ,keep up the great work kia kaha

  • @Thecuriousincident1

    @Thecuriousincident1

    Жыл бұрын

    That's mad my Granny also from Ballisodare talked about hearing the Banshees and even said a neighbour of hers died that night.

  • @tonycarton8054

    @tonycarton8054

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Thecuriousincident1 did you know the McGloines ?

  • @tonycarton8054

    @tonycarton8054

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Thecuriousincident1 that reply was NOT me

  • @DrPhil-pw2to
    @DrPhil-pw2to Жыл бұрын

    In Donegal and Tyrone they make a banging sound.

  • @michaeldevaney5728
    @michaeldevaney5728 Жыл бұрын

    The banshee does exist i know of several people who have heard her

  • @cathalmeenagh3898
    @cathalmeenagh3898 Жыл бұрын

    We were told she was translucent and that she brushed her hair with half a comb, or a broken comb.

  • @wolfthequarrelsome504

    @wolfthequarrelsome504

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah... She screams on behalf of every Irish child aborted.

  • @hughjass8430
    @hughjass8430 Жыл бұрын

    Friday night. Turned off Tubridy and this popped up on KZread. Far better watch. Lol

  • @radharcanna

    @radharcanna

    Жыл бұрын

    Precisely. The LLS has gone to the dogs. It’s all about Tubridy rather than being about the guests.

  • @mumsow
    @mumsow Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely wonderful 💚💜

  • Жыл бұрын

    Moi aussi, j'ai vu la Banshee par deux fois ! Une fois en Irlande. Elle était une très belle femme. Il faisait nuit et elle s'est mise devant mon lit. Et une autre fois, en France, aussi devant mon lit. Mais cette fois-ci, elle était petite et pas belle du tout. A chaque fois, il y a eu des prédictions qui ce sont réalisées.

  • @avlasting3507
    @avlasting3507 Жыл бұрын

    Brilliant.

  • @conorwhite2066
    @conorwhite2066 Жыл бұрын

    "And the banshee cried and the hero died..." remember my grandmother saying this little rhyme

  • @francismadden8561
    @francismadden8561 Жыл бұрын

    The starvation period in middle to late 1800s Ireland had Banshees in unison. Horror times.

  • @Art-is-craft

    @Art-is-craft

    5 ай бұрын

    The vast majority that died did not do so through starvation.

  • @davidnyc487
    @davidnyc487 Жыл бұрын

    You would never get that kind of content on RTE today. 😂

  • @sentimentaloldme

    @sentimentaloldme

    Жыл бұрын

    Correct...First of all they would have to employ an interviewer that one could understand ...Instead of ones that keep interrupting and giggling at their own silly jokes.

  • @wolfthequarrelsome504

    @wolfthequarrelsome504

    Жыл бұрын

    Great. I'm Irish. It's a clan thing going on. In thev early 60s in Youghal we had an abandoned dog howling around the town for a month or two. That was the banshee in those days.

  • @DashDrones

    @DashDrones

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, TV has gone to sh*te

  • @richiemaccarthy

    @richiemaccarthy

    Жыл бұрын

    Real decent television we could identify with, now TV is dumb down ,mind numbing

  • @sentimentaloldme

    @sentimentaloldme

    Жыл бұрын

    @@richiemaccarthy A Fine Gael politician once stood up in Dáil Éireann and said there was no sex in Ireland before television. 😁

  • @ogstopper
    @ogstopper Жыл бұрын

    Superb!!!!

  • @finolaomurchu8217

    @finolaomurchu8217

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes👍☘️

  • @MrRobertFarr
    @MrRobertFarr Жыл бұрын

    It's interesting that this clever woman can keep up this chit chat. Perhaps, it helped her through her career in all the times when she had nothing to do !

  • @MrRobertFarr

    @MrRobertFarr

    Жыл бұрын

    Or maybe it's Gay Byrne , as I had a friend, who was a Mr. Byrne, who I fully respected, either from over that side of the valley, or the other . But, now, he has swopped villages and, lives in ignorance. Always poisoning himself but never dying. Just a steady flow of poison.

  • @daithiisanimdom
    @daithiisanimdom Жыл бұрын

    I heard the banshee last Saturday night. A terrifying howling noise that would wake the dead. But strangley enough I wasn't all that terrified at the time so I hung up on her and went back into the pub and ordered another pint.

  • @gachrudgaelach
    @gachrudgaelach Жыл бұрын

    She is supposed to be the mother of Brian Boru, the defeater of the most powerful invaders, the Vikings, since Gaelic settlers arrived here. Brian Boru's grandsons were the first in Ireland to use a surname, Uí Bhriain, descendent of Brian, many other Irish families followed suit and the Mac/son of, also game into use, this is supposedly why the Banshee cries to people with original Gaelic names.

  • @ConnollyStationChicago1936

    @ConnollyStationChicago1936

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this comment.

  • @MikeyJMJ

    @MikeyJMJ

    Жыл бұрын

    Why did the expert mention an affiliation with anglo Norman families then?

  • @sheilasullivan1950

    @sheilasullivan1950

    6 ай бұрын

    This expert missed the part of real history where these anglo/normans displaced the real Irish off their lands and property. Forced them to drop their gaelic names to get soup after they'd stolen all the good food to ship home to the nobs in england. So naturally curses were put on the land and the people to avenge the dirty deeds done against the native .Irish. I don't blame them. I met the banshee in Kikcullen, Co Kildare 1972. I was only 4'7" at the time and she was maybe 4' max. Hunched over, black cloak, no feet, nor hands, nor face to be seen. No comb, no long hair. Was a Sunday morning. We were waiting for our mothers cousin to take us to mass. My sister ran for the road, through the five bar gate and hard left. I neither saw nor heard anything, only my sister take off at a high rate of speed and deaf to my pleas to stop (busy main road) and come back. I tore after her. Climbed the gate, turned left, barely caught a glimpse of her racing through a little woods behind our cousins house, on a bare earth path, heading for the paddock next door, with horses in it. The banshee appeared in front if me and telepathically asked me 'what do you wish for?' I climbed the 2nd big black wooden gate and was yelling at my sister to stop!! She did, on a wee mound in the middle of the path. Wasn't there a second ago? I turned back and the creature was gone. My sister took off again to the fencing around the field and the horses started racing up to her as she climbed up to pet them. I had now reached the mound and got suspended there. All noise was blocked. I was asked internally 'what do you wish for?' Being a romantic, I said...who will I marry? All noise came back, very very loud. I got invisibilly pushed off the mound. I caught my sister and held her with a death grip by the hand and marched her back next door, shook up. I can see the future and dead people, ever since. Not too pleasant. Im 64 now and it's still with me. My sisters gift was in the arts. Painting.

  • @louiseb3491
    @louiseb3491 Жыл бұрын

    My ma saw a banshee when she was young staying in her Aunty Kathleen’s in Moate

  • @oceantiara

    @oceantiara

    Жыл бұрын

    My Mama heard her in Killmallock

  • @michealbreathnach2928
    @michealbreathnach2928 Жыл бұрын

    She is a very educated woman fair play to her

  • @mamaraah2578
    @mamaraah25789 ай бұрын

    Ah jaysus….. my mam and Nan used to terrify me with tales of the banshee when I was a child 😂I still don’t go out in the dark now.

  • @moc9893
    @moc98935 ай бұрын

    I was visiting the grave of family members as i do every week but this one time i heard a loud groan from a woman and I was the only one around that day, it gave me chills.

  • @johnking5174
    @johnking517416 күн бұрын

    My grandmother saw a banshee crawling up a neighbour's wall when she was very young. She remembered her crying out and moaning. Within a day a death happened in that neighbour's house, and the neighbour has a "Mc" in their name, as said before, banshee comes to people with a "Mc" or "O" at the start of their surname.

  • @seandelap8587
    @seandelap8587 Жыл бұрын

    The ones I always remember are the spicy crisps

  • @gobnaitaine5103

    @gobnaitaine5103

    Жыл бұрын

    Banshee Bones, salt and vinegar. Crisps of childhood.

  • @elizabethconnolly8958

    @elizabethconnolly8958

    Жыл бұрын

    If you heard the cry you would not think it's so funny

  • @zimzimma5688
    @zimzimma5688 Жыл бұрын

    1:15 made my skin crawl. Gay Byrne was such a smug prat. In his head he really did think he was the intellectual and moral authority for the entire country. I'm sure a person of her, by the sounds of it, many personal accomplishments, never had one bigger than the honour of a condescending, verbal pat on the head from the high king of Dublin 4, uncle Gaybo, at least in Gay's mind anyway.

  • @ciaranmcmahon3024

    @ciaranmcmahon3024

    Жыл бұрын

    😂😂

  • @hughjass8430

    @hughjass8430

    Жыл бұрын

    Maybe he was just being honest about his beliefs or lack thereof and wasn't intending to be smug.

  • @zimzimma5688

    @zimzimma5688

    Жыл бұрын

    @@hughjass8430 Regardless of the countless other examples over the years of him talking down to his audience, his guests and the nation as a whole, in this particular instance alone, you would think that by first listing out her credentials, it would have been obvious to anyone listening she's very intelligent. The fact that he felt the need to give his own rubber stamp in a tone befitting a parent praising a child that's done well in a maths test, tells me personally everything I need to know about the man's ego, but everyone's entitled to their opinion, so think what you want.

  • @hughjass8430

    @hughjass8430

    Жыл бұрын

    @@zimzimma5688 think you're putting a 21st century feminazi spin on a man very much of the 20th century, and 20th century Ireland at that. Gay did the same "isn't she a lovely girl" shtick with lots of women who were 25 plus years younger than him. It was just his way. Didn't mean any harm and it was a very different time and a different country. They're having a serious debate about whether a supernatural being might actually exist for God's sake.

  • @zimzimma5688

    @zimzimma5688

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@hughjass8430 I'm not putting any feminist spin on anything, you did. It would have been and was in fact, just as smug and condescending when he took, as he often did, that tone with men. The woke police must haunt your dreams, looking for feminists offending your sensibilities when they're not there. It's night of the living woke, they're coming to take everything you love 😂

  • @user-bk3gn7wl1e
    @user-bk3gn7wl1e3 ай бұрын

    In Donegal it’s known to make a knocking noise for some families.

  • @johnking5174

    @johnking5174

    16 күн бұрын

    I read that a "death knock" comes on the front door of the home. It happened to us before, it is scary, but it is real.

  • @user-bk3gn7wl1e

    @user-bk3gn7wl1e

    16 күн бұрын

    @@johnking5174 yeah very scary when your at home with someone who is dying.

  • @johnking5174

    @johnking5174

    15 күн бұрын

    @@user-bk3gn7wl1e It happened to my grandmother who we know was dying from cancer. She was already in hospital. The knock came around 10pm at night, and at 11am the following morning she died. No one in the street. No kids playing around. A massive three knocks on the front door, and we opened the door within 30 seconds. No one there. The street was totally quiet, no one around.

  • @alllovingcowherdboy4475
    @alllovingcowherdboy4475 Жыл бұрын

    There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy...Shakespeare

  • @davidyasss3484
    @davidyasss3484 Жыл бұрын

    Years ago, I was walking with my ex by Grand Canal Dock at night. We both heard an unhuman scream and were spooked. We thought it was a banshee, but we then saw a fox strolling down the road.

  • @sheilasullivan1950

    @sheilasullivan1950

    6 ай бұрын

    She can shapeshift, twas indeed the banshee.

  • @Art-is-craft

    @Art-is-craft

    5 ай бұрын

    A Banshee does not scream or howl. It cries in a very human tone.

  • @margaretnesbeth593
    @margaretnesbeth593 Жыл бұрын

    S the Murphy's, she has a high pitched wailing sound especially on a windy night. She can be a young woman dressed in white with long fair hair or an old woman dressed in black widows clothes with long grey hair covered by a shawl, it is now 2023 and she is out there busier than ever crying not just for Ireland but for the world.

  • @jmccallion2394
    @jmccallion2394 Жыл бұрын

    Is Dr Patricia related to the genealogist/herald Edward Lysaght?

  • @glitter_and_doom9218
    @glitter_and_doom92182 ай бұрын

    My favourite is the Scottish version of the banshee - the lady being interviewed says right; she was a washerwoman seen at streams. She too was a harbinger of death. She would wash the clothes of the person about to die - if she was washing yours you might engage with her and convince her to leave your clothes alone. If she was washing an enemy or rival’s clothes then you could leave her be and benefit from the person’s death.

  • @glitter_and_doom9218

    @glitter_and_doom9218

    2 ай бұрын

    Also - and this is true! - she was said to have enormous breasts that hung down her front and got in the way of her task. She would throw them over her shoulders to get them out of the way. If you found her washing your clothes, you supposedly snuck up behind her, put one of her breasts in your mouth in order to convince her you were one of her long lost children. This accomplished, you could then make requests of her to wash someone’s else’s clothes - rivals, enemies and the like - in order to off them. It sounds like I’m making it up, but it’s true is Scottish folklore.

  • @kieranswift9427
    @kieranswift9427 Жыл бұрын

    Ah my grannie told me all the tales of the Banshees oh what great times

  • @franktoledo6342
    @franktoledo6342 Жыл бұрын

    A spirit that travels about. Strange sounds past on in finding a comb that belong to a person who past on. Interesting subject.

  • @lourdafinn6528
    @lourdafinn6528 Жыл бұрын

    Would put total fear in you I never want to hear it again,luckily out family were in our house when we heard it. I was afraid to move during it as was the rest of my family. It was a neighbour who died 🤯

  • @knockemstiff7584
    @knockemstiff7584 Жыл бұрын

    Apparently my granda seen one coming home from work at 3am when he worked on the trains in dunleary , it was sitting on the doorstep of a neighbours house combing it's hair and wailing , two days later the neighbour was found dead in her living room , the granda was a piss head his entire life so I'm gonna take this story with a pinch of salt although it did scare the jaysus out of me when me ma told us the story as kids 😂

  • @Art-is-craft

    @Art-is-craft

    5 ай бұрын

    A Banshee never shows its self. It was something else your grandad experienced.

  • @fiddlejohn9305
    @fiddlejohn9305 Жыл бұрын

    We have La Llorona here in Colorado.

  • @Analiffey1916
    @Analiffey1916 Жыл бұрын

    My cousin and I in 1976 on our way home at the crack of dawn in Newcastle co Dublin. heard the keening and sitting on a fence post next door was a little woman combing her hair! The gentleman next door was found dead that morning! Make of that what ye will 😉

  • @ciaran4589

    @ciaran4589

    Жыл бұрын

    Aylmer road I suspect

  • @TheScientist43
    @TheScientist434 ай бұрын

    Very interesting, and would have been better if Gay hadn't kept belittling the subject matter. I heard a banshee in my late teens. One of the things that I identified with that Ms. Lysaght said was: "You FEEL it" I've never felt fear like it.

  • @dracarnoir7606
    @dracarnoir7606 Жыл бұрын

    Normally foxes can naturally make strange sounding cries .

  • @Art-is-craft

    @Art-is-craft

    5 ай бұрын

    Foxes do not cry like a human. One of the key descriptions of the Banshee is the crying.

  • @sobraine123

    @sobraine123

    2 күн бұрын

    Local gardai attest to the fact that they get called out for suspected rapes/assaults when foxes are mating. The sound is blood curdling and this is in the centre of Dublin

  • @antipodesman
    @antipodesman Жыл бұрын

    I heard the Windigo in Alberta in November when the ice froze on the ponds before there was any snow to cover the ice.

  • @textfiles7508
    @textfiles7508 Жыл бұрын

    THanks Man

  • @simonmccullagh278
    @simonmccullagh27812 күн бұрын

    I see her when my uncle died at the same time I got woke up at 02.30 in the morning. I turned around in the bed and a woman figure was hovering in the room. She was a dark grey/white figure but you can’t see her face because of her hair over the face. My mother heard one when her brother died

  • @jasonfallon4968
    @jasonfallon4968 Жыл бұрын

    Roll it there Colette

  • @sandrawilson9703
    @sandrawilson9703 Жыл бұрын

    The sound is too low. I can't hear what they are saying.

  • @paulgibbons2320
    @paulgibbons2320 Жыл бұрын

    Fascinating. An to have accounts from the audience too.

  • @grose2272
    @grose2272 Жыл бұрын

    She only shows to the old native Irish from strong gael bloodlines-- the original Irish names- Mc, O Neill - tully and so fort! It died out with the washing of bloodlines but people of these bloodlines still experience the supernatural warnings, in my home its the disembodied knocks on wood mainly doors and nobody there when u open it! I had one or two of these experiences sadly before somebody was going to pass..

  • @itabrennan7420

    @itabrennan7420

    Жыл бұрын

    My mother was an O'Neill from Armagh and not only does the Banshee appear but the O'Neill clan can give a death curse to those whom cause harm to them.

  • @martinacooney200

    @martinacooney200

    Жыл бұрын

    I have had that experience of a knock on the door and nobody there Always the sign of a death

  • @grose2272

    @grose2272

    Жыл бұрын

    @@itabrennan7420 I heard theres some who can do that alright..

  • @grose2272

    @grose2272

    Жыл бұрын

    @@martinacooney200 ♥

  • @colinmaloneactor
    @colinmaloneactor Жыл бұрын

    Great channel and video. But Gay just killed this with his smugness. He just kept dismissing it and making a joke of it. It would have been amazing had he just went with it.

  • @edmundpower1250

    @edmundpower1250

    Жыл бұрын

    Ah come on now. He wasn't being smug. He was being real

  • @carmeleustace8681

    @carmeleustace8681

    Жыл бұрын

    His manner always annoyed me even as a kid. The professor takes it seriously as a folklore subject but he has to be a jerk.

  • @belltopcone
    @belltopcone Жыл бұрын

    She said `people in Cork & Kerry are different ` 3:53 what did she mean ? uk

  • @michellebyrom6551

    @michellebyrom6551

    Жыл бұрын

    Everyone uses Cork folk as the fall guy, except Cork folk who use Kerry folk next county over. The same way the French put down the Belgians or the English put down the Irish.

  • @belltopcone

    @belltopcone

    Жыл бұрын

    @@michellebyrom6551 I see, thanks michelle

  • @johnlally5296
    @johnlally5296 Жыл бұрын

    I think I seen the banshee when I was about 12 years old I'm 44 now and I can remember it was yesterday did not no at the time what I seen but now when I look back its sounds like it was there was a couple of deaths in the family round then and what I seen terrified me woke up about 4 or 5 in the morning and there it was hovering over me selling height pointing at me and laughing I tried to call out my mother's name but I wasn't able just frozen with shock and terrified it flew around the room a couple of times and then whent up true the selling had night mares for years after stop sleeping in that room and this is where it gets scary my mother moved into that room after my father died back in 1997 and a couple of years ago she came out and said something to me that put the hair up my back she said something came to the room and flew around she wasn't making it up and around the same time I'd an uncle that died up the country.

  • @SarahSmith-nr2wj
    @SarahSmith-nr2wj Жыл бұрын

    I always imagined it sounded like howling wind can sound.

  • @Art-is-craft

    @Art-is-craft

    5 ай бұрын

    Nope it cries.

  • @TheMegahusky
    @TheMegahusky Жыл бұрын

    This is why I love our lovely Eire, pity it's going another way from our Irish traditions and into something so alien to us. Eire is such a unique place. Pray to god this carnage stops soon.

  • @musashidanmcgrath

    @musashidanmcgrath

    Жыл бұрын

    It's finished. Our ancient, unique culture and heritage have been targeted for destruction. Our country is being irreversibly damaged and in another generation or 2 of low native birth rates and mass, illegal migration, we will be all but extinct in our own land. An utter tragedy.

  • @andymurph3394

    @andymurph3394

    Жыл бұрын

    Agree 👍

  • @MB-pe1dw

    @MB-pe1dw

    Жыл бұрын

    Are you another saying the place is full of wogs?

  • @MB-pe1dw

    @MB-pe1dw

    Жыл бұрын

    I am from England and my family are Irish. I can say there were no wogs in it in the 1990's. I didn't see any at Dublin airport in 2016 either

  • @TheMegahusky

    @TheMegahusky

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MB-pe1dw Actually it was illegal immigrants. I haven't heard the term Wog in years since they took the gollywog off the jam jars.

  • @clairefox4640
    @clairefox4640 Жыл бұрын

    I really miss gay Byrne, that voice was like velvet, really miss him

  • @seebarry4068
    @seebarry4068 Жыл бұрын

    So homely the walls are knitted.

  • @oonaghblack
    @oonaghblack Жыл бұрын

    Hard to believe the whole country watched this beige programme in the beige studio every Friday night 😂

  • @Ohaodhatirfothuinn
    @Ohaodhatirfothuinn Жыл бұрын

    I heard the Banshee Crying outside my House, and about 2 months later I seen 4 black kittens…😱 We got the Priest to bless the house, and he said it would be best if we left the house to the Church after we passed away …🤓👍🏼☠️😂🍀🙏🏻

  • @baxpiz1289
    @baxpiz1289 Жыл бұрын

    what does "be the hokey" mean -- he says it toward the v end

  • @Blondie101010100

    @Blondie101010100

    Жыл бұрын

    It's means, Wow!

  • @declanclarke2572

    @declanclarke2572

    Жыл бұрын

    Means he was a moon puncher

  • @tiffanygrever8092
    @tiffanygrever80924 ай бұрын

    I'm a descendant of the clarke family I wonder if I would here a cry?

  • @barryscannell
    @barryscannell Жыл бұрын

    We used to “hear” it. It’s always a vixen in heat.

  • @McGanjaHighpriestess29
    @McGanjaHighpriestess2924 күн бұрын

    The banshee protects the mcs and the O's.. folklore was intended for the English.. But very true indeed they exist

  • @johnking5174

    @johnking5174

    16 күн бұрын

    My grandmother saw a banshee crawling up a neighbour's wall when she was very young. She remembered her crying out and moaning. Within a day a death happened in that neighbour's house, and the neighbour has a "Mc" in their name, as said before, banshee comes to people with a "Mc" or "O" at the start of their surname

  • @dementednun1175
    @dementednun1175 Жыл бұрын

    Just to throw it out there I was in college in inchicore and a man came in and told us he seen a banshee walking around the college gounds at night the same day another lady came in and told us the same thing! Me and this person who shall be nameless also thought we seen her, but working in Performance Arts you tend not to bat an eyelid at strange figures/costumes but yes real or not who knows but that college was built on an old church.

  • @Art-is-craft

    @Art-is-craft

    5 ай бұрын

    The Banshee does casually display its self. That was something else that people witnessed.

  • @kerrysupporter
    @kerrysupporter Жыл бұрын

    They were at the Oscars lately in Hollywood

  • @PA3456
    @PA3456 Жыл бұрын

    The banshee by god haven’t heard the name in years

  • @WillyDIreland
    @WillyDIreland9 ай бұрын

    9 year old me watched this the night it was broadcast. I had nightmares for weeks afterwards. It was on TV so it must be true right? 😂

  • @CashmoneyM
    @CashmoneyM10 ай бұрын

    Do banshees usually talk or nah

  • @pinkzweibel985
    @pinkzweibel985 Жыл бұрын

    And hear the banshee howl 😮😮

  • @duncr
    @duncr Жыл бұрын

    Vixens screaming

  • @Kevin-rw4yw
    @Kevin-rw4yw Жыл бұрын

    😮 spooky!

  • @brucemasters8909
    @brucemasters8909 Жыл бұрын

    This is real people.

  • @paulcoyle6676
    @paulcoyle6676 Жыл бұрын

    Cats in heat - you’d cry too if you understand the way the male cat mate.

  • @Art-is-craft

    @Art-is-craft

    5 ай бұрын

    Yeah Irish people knew what cats were and how to breed them.

  • @jamesogle5415
    @jamesogle5415 Жыл бұрын

    Sure twas only ever 2 cat's at it in the night. 😻🙀

  • @bensanderson7144
    @bensanderson71443 ай бұрын

    Derevaun Seraun

  • @charlottebowes7666
    @charlottebowes7666 Жыл бұрын

    So loads of people witnessing miserable lone women, feeling something is wrong, ignoring it and deeming it unnatural… That’s a tough sell these days. Thank goodness people have become nosier 😂

  • @rayburridge2359
    @rayburridge2359 Жыл бұрын

    If the Irish get an Oscar there will be 4 weeks holiday, although they have to call it a BRITISH film as it was backed by GB. They normally declare a weeks holiday for a Eurovision win, or getting to the World Cup. You can see, I hope, that they like to celebrate their little achievements with intense enjoyment bless 'em!!

  • @kitsilanomusician2669

    @kitsilanomusician2669

    Жыл бұрын

    Biggest & best Irish celebration was held for when they left the dominion of the tax payer gou.ging, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Pedo Cult Liz-ard Family. Brilliant.

  • @m.forrestal5893

    @m.forrestal5893

    Жыл бұрын

    Strange... I never got a week off when Ireland won the Eurovision and qualified for the World Cup and I grew up there!

  • @m.forrestal5893

    @m.forrestal5893

    Жыл бұрын

    Your comment adds up to nothing but ignorance, bigotry, racism and sour grapes. Shame on you!

  • @jerryfields4837
    @jerryfields48372 ай бұрын

    only in fuckin Dublin....she never appears anywhere else!!

  • @shanefreaney3916
    @shanefreaney3916 Жыл бұрын

    Fox in the wind

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