Banshee

The Banshee comes from the Irish bean sí (woman of the fairy mounds) is a feminine spirit usually seen as an omen of death and a messenger from the Otherworld.
In legend, a banshee is a fairy woman who begins to wail if someone about to die.
The story of the banshee began as a fairy woman keening at the death if important personages. In later stories, the appearance of the banshee could foretell death. The banshee can appear in a variety of guises. Most often she appears as an ugly frightening hag but she can also appear as a stunning beautiful woman of any age that suits her.
Although not always seen, her mourning call is heard usually at night when someone is about to die and usually around woods.
The banshee may also appear in a variety of other forms such as that if a hooded crow, stoat,hare and weasel - animals associated with witchcraft in Ireland.
Banshees normally dressed in white or grey, often having long pale hair which they brush with a silver comb. This comb detail is also related to the centuries old traditional romantic Irish story that, if you ever see a comb lying on the ground in Ireland, you must never pick it up or the banshees having placed it there to lure unsuspecting humans, will spirit such gullible humans away.