banshee

female spirit of death in Irish mythology
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banshee
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banshee

Summary

banshee ranks in the top 0.45% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,856 views/month, #353 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • banshee's image is recorded as Banshee.jpg[2].
  • banshee is recorded as female[3].
  • banshee's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh87006375[4].
  • banshee's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 122275170[5].
  • banshee's IdRef ID is recorded as 03096430X[6].
  • banshee's subclass of is recorded as spirit[7].
  • banshee's subclass of is recorded as mythical creature[8].
  • banshee's subclass of is recorded as fairy[9].
  • banshee's subclass of is recorded as Aos Sí[10].
  • banshee's part of is recorded as Irish mythology[11].
  • banshee's part of is recorded as Mythological Cycle[12].
  • banshee's Commons category is recorded as Banshee (mythology)[13].
  • banshee's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01fxz[14].
  • banshee's worshipped by is recorded as Irish mythology[15].
  • banshee's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[16].
  • banshee's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[17].
  • banshee's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/banshee[18].
  • banshee's name in native language is recorded as {'lang': 'ga', 'text': 'Bean sídhe'}[19].
  • banshee's BBC Things ID is recorded as 2cad30db-deb6-430d-bdb2-88aed114dba3[20].
  • banshee's different from is recorded as Banshee[21].
  • banshee's different from is recorded as banshee in a work of fiction[22].
  • banshee's FAST ID is recorded as 827166[23].
  • banshee's Quora topic ID is recorded as Banshee-5[24].
  • banshee's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as banshees[25].
  • banshee's Fandom article ID is recorded as ru.mythological-creations:Банши[26].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for banshee include The Banshees of Inisherin[27], a film[28], directed by Martin McDonagh[29].

Why It Matters

banshee ranks in the top 0.45% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,856 views/month, #353 of 77,819).[1] banshee has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] banshee is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for banshee include The Banshees of Inisherin[27], a film[28], directed by Martin McDonagh[29].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft. Retrieved . google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.. Retrieved . britannica.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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