okay but banshee is surely a gaelic / celtic myth which is more obscure due t genocide / christianization, because it ends in shee / sí / sidhe (see also cait sith)
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”
okay but banshee is surely a gaelic / celtic myth which is more obscure due t genocide / christianization, because it ends in shee / sí / sidhe (see also cait sith)
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”