Editing Banshee (section)

==Associated families==
Some sources suggest that the banshee laments only the descendants of the "pure [[Milesians (Irish)|Milesian]] stock" of Ireland,<ref name="DemonologySirWalterScott">{{Cite book |last=Scott |first=Walter |url=https://archive.org/details/lettersondemono00unkngoog |title=Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft |date=1836-01-01 |publisher=Harper & Brothers |page=[https://archive.org/details/lettersondemono00unkngoog/page/n298 296] |language=en |quote=sir walter scott letters on demonology banshee.}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AIU-AQAAMAAJ&dq=%22banshee%22+%22kavanagh%22&pg=RA1-PA109 |title=The London Journal: and Weekly Record of Literature, Science, and Art |date=1847 |publisher=G. Vickers |language=en | quote = the Banshee is only allowed to families of pure Milesian stock, and is never ascribed to any descendant of the [..] Saxon who followed the banner of Earl Strongbow }}</ref> with the original belief appearing to associate the folklore with a number of ancient Irish families.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Monaghan |first=Patricia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uabOEAAAQBAJ&q=Encyclopedia+of+Goddesses+and+Heroines+%5B2+volumes%5D:+%5B2+volumes%5D |title=Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines [2 volumes]: [2 volumes] |date=2009-12-18 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-0-313-34990-4 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Croker">{{Cite book |last=Croker |first=Thomas Crofton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ltoDAAAAQAAJ&q=Fairy+Legends+and+Traditions+of+the+South+of+Ireland+croker |title=Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland. [By Thomas Crofton Croker.] |date=1838 |publisher=John Murray; Thomas Tegg&Son |language=en |page = 260 | quote = the Banshee, or female demon [was] attached to certain ancient Irish families }}</ref> According to this tradition, a banshee would not lament or visit someone of Saxon or Norman descent or who came to Ireland later.<ref name=":0"/><ref>{{Cite book |last=Scott |first=Walter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mzNN3Zv6nQQC |title=Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft: Addressed to J. G. Lockhart, Esq |date=1831 |publisher=John Murray |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Vallancey |first=Charles |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7blVAAAAcAAJ |title=Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicus |date=1786 |publisher=T. Ewing | page = 461 |language=en |quote="but no families which are not of an ancient and noble stock (no oriental extraction, he should have said) are believed to be honoured with this fairy privilege"}}</ref> Most, but not all, surnames associated with banshees have the ''Ó'' or ''Mc/Mac'' prefix<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cashman |first=Ray |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8LvkDAAAQBAJ&q=banshee+names+irish |title=Packy Jim: Folklore and Worldview on the Irish Border |date=2016-08-30 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Pres |isbn=9780299308902 |page=145 |language=en | quote = The banshee always keens for the Macs and the Os, people with the old Celtic names }}</ref> – that is, surnames of [[Goidelic languages|Goidelic origin]], indicating a family native to the [[Insular Celts|Insular Celtic]] lands rather than those of the Norse, Anglo-Saxon, or Norman. 

There are some exceptions to this lore,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=O'Sullivan |first=Friar |year=1899 |title=Ancient History of the Kingdom of Kerry |url=http://www.corkhist.ie/wp-content/uploads/jfiles/1899/b1899-036.pdf |url-status=live |journal=Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society |volume=5 |issue=44 |pages=224–234 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.corkhist.ie/wp-content/uploads/jfiles/1899/b1899-036.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |via=JCHAS | quote = It is only "blood" can have a banshee. Business men nowadays have something as good as "blood" - they have "brains" and "brass" by which they can compete with and enter into the oldest families [..] Nothing, however [..] can replace "Blue Blood/" }}</ref> including that a banshee may lament a person who had been "gifted with music and song".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wilde |first=Lady |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eUH1_l0w5a0C&q=never+ascribe+to+a+descendant+bean+sidhe |title=Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland |date=1887 |publisher=Ticknor and Company |quote = only certain families of historic lineage, or persons gifted with music and song, are attended by this spirit [banshee] |page = 259 |language=en}}</ref> For example, there are accounts of the [[FitzGerald dynasty|Geraldines]] hearing a banshee – as they had reputedly become "[[more Irish than the Irish themselves]]" – and that the [[Bunworth Banshee]], associated with the Rev. [[Charles Bunworth]] (a name of Anglo-Saxon origin), heralded the death of an Irish person who had been a patron to musicians.<ref>{{cite web
 |title=The Banshee: The Wailing Fairy Woman of Ireland
 |last=Lary
 |first=Morris H.
 |website=History Cooperative
 |url=https://historycooperative.org/banshee/
 |date=2024-10-07
 |access-date=2025-01-24
}}</ref>

According to tradition, some families had their own banshee,<ref name="Croker"/> with the Ua Briain banshee, named [[Aibell]], being the ruler of 25 other banshees who would always be at her attendance.<ref name="lore">{{cite journal |last=Westropp |first=Thos. J. |title=A Folklore Survey of County Clare |journal=Folklore |volume= 21|issue= 2|pages=180–199 |date=June 1910  |jstor=1254686|doi=10.1080/0015587X.1910.9719928 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/2311341 }}</ref>