"The Banshee's Halloween" (1903) by Herminie Templeton Kavanagh
Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers: 1852-1923 edited by Leslie S. Klinger & Lisa Morton
Readers unfamiliar with "The Banshee's Halloween" (1903) by Herminie Templeton Kavanagh may prefer to read these notes only after reading the story.
"The Banshee's Halloween" (1903) by Herminie Templeton Kavanagh relates in cod Irish dialect how young Darby O'Gill frightened a banshee and won from it three wishes on Halloween night.
The story can be read online here.
The version in Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers: 1852-1923 has the benefit of footnotes defining Gaelic (I assume) words used in the tale.
Jay
