what is a banshee?
Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2000 12:54 pm
just wondering...
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what is a banshee?
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2000 1:08 pm
A 3d-accelerator from 3DFX and some kind of demon. It's scream causes monsters and humans to die! (Hmm...LVL 9 Spell "Wail of the Banshee")
Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2000 1:11 pm
From Monstrous Manual.
page 13.
"The banshee or groaning spirit, is the spirit of an evil female elf -a very rare thing indeed.Banshee hate the living, finding their presence painful, and seek to harm whomever they meet.
Banshee appear as a floating, luminous phantasms of their former selves. Their image glows brightly at night, but is tranparent in sunlight (60 % invisible). Most banshees are old and withered, but a few (10%) who died young retain their former beauty. The hair of a groaning spirit is wild and unkempt.Her dess is usually tattered rags. Her face is a mask of pain and anguish, but hatred and ire burns brightly in her eyes. Banshees frequently cry out in pain -hence their name."
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"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not became a monster... when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss gazes into you..."
Friedrich Nietzsche
page 13.
"The banshee or groaning spirit, is the spirit of an evil female elf -a very rare thing indeed.Banshee hate the living, finding their presence painful, and seek to harm whomever they meet.
Banshee appear as a floating, luminous phantasms of their former selves. Their image glows brightly at night, but is tranparent in sunlight (60 % invisible). Most banshees are old and withered, but a few (10%) who died young retain their former beauty. The hair of a groaning spirit is wild and unkempt.Her dess is usually tattered rags. Her face is a mask of pain and anguish, but hatred and ire burns brightly in her eyes. Banshees frequently cry out in pain -hence their name."
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"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not became a monster... when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss gazes into you..."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2000 1:20 pm
I just asked jeevees and he said ,
(The Banshee is a very fast 13-foot fiberglass sailboat)
Plus he said,
(supernatural being in Irish and other Celtic folklore whose mournful "keening," or wailing screaming or lamentation, at night..)
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(I would betray the world before i let the world betray me.) Chao Chao 192 a.d.
(The Banshee is a very fast 13-foot fiberglass sailboat)
Plus he said,
(supernatural being in Irish and other Celtic folklore whose mournful "keening," or wailing screaming or lamentation, at night..)
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(I would betray the world before i let the world betray me.) Chao Chao 192 a.d.
Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2000 2:25 pm
Go Drakron! Finally somebody who knows their AD&D 
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Magus, mighty sorcerer, and summoner of hordes of...magical flying swords
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Magus, mighty sorcerer, and summoner of hordes of...magical flying swords
Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2000 4:19 pm
Thank you...
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2001 12:46 am
In Irish folklore, banshees are spirits that attach themselves to some of the old Irish families, something like a curse. They're the spirits of women who have been wronged by some ancestor somewhere down the line. They make appearences whenever the head of the family is going to die, usually by keening at the moment of death, but sometimes you have them singing instead of screaming. Depends on the family (and the banshee--they're all different).