Bean shìth | Scottish Mythology

In Scottish mythology, the bean shìth is a female spirit or fairy. The Scottish Gaelic bean shìth is known to the Irish as bean sídhe and anglicized as banshee.

The Scottish idea of the bean shìth comes from the Irish banshee, and the two ideas are similar: a banshee’s most distinctive activity is a loud mourning wail made when someone is about to die. It is said that in 1437, the Scottish king James I was approached by a bean shìth who fortold his murder.

The Scottish and Irish banshees are also similar to the hag of the mist in Welsh mythology.