• Skua@kbin.earth
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    12 days ago

    It is. You caught the ending correctly, and the ban part is from bean (not pronounced like English bean, of course), meaning wife or woman. Still, I would say that the banshee specifically has a fair bit more cultural recognition than most things from Gaelic myth. Like I’d expect a lot more people to recognise “banshee” than, say “each-uisge”