Banshee

Banshee
Season(s)	11
Powers and Abilities	Piercing scream travel through mist
Vulnerabilities	Iron (Non-Canon, Novel Only), Gold
Appearance	Female with dark flowing hair, sunken eyes in blood red robes

"Malevolent Banshees. They use their piercing scream to drive their prey crazy. Forces the vics to crack open their own eggs. and then the Banshees feed on the yolk. Oh, and the only people who can hear the Banshee's scream are the vics. Oh, and they, uh, travel through mist and they only prey on the vulnerable. They hunt the same place until it's picked clean. And they only hunt at night."

—Dean, about Banshees

A Banshee is a Gaelic malevolent creature.

Characteristic

Banshees appear like a female with dark flowing hair, sunken eyes in blood red robes. Their body is covered with dark mist.

Malevolent Banshees are able to produce high-pitched screams that can drive anyone who hears their scream to commit suicide. The only ones capable of hearing their screams are the victims and once the victim is dead, the Banshee will feed on their frontal lobe. Banshees only prey on the vulnerable, both physically and emotionally, only hunt at night and hunt a location until it is picked clean before moving on.

Banshees tied to fairy lore are good and cry out to warn of impending death.

Power and Abilities

A Banshee preparing to feed.

• Pitching Scream - Able to produce a high-pitching scream that can hurt people who hear it. Humans affected by it are forced to bash their head in, effectively forcing them to commit suicide.
• Intangibility - Like spirits, they are intangible.
• Camouflage - Able camouflage to their surroundings. They are able to travel through the mist.
• Tongue - They have a long, and specially designed, tongue to consume the brain of their victims.
• Electromagnetic Interference - Their presence caused lights to flicker.
• Telekinesis - With a single blow, a Banshee was able to fling Eileen Leahy across a room into a bookshelf and Sam Winchester through a wooden door.

Weaknesses

• Gold - A weapon of pure gold can kill a Banshee. Just being slashed with a golden weapon hurts it.
• Banishing - Can be banished by a basic spell.
• Celtic Blood Trapping Spell - Can trap a Banshee.
• Higher Beings - Archangels, Death, God and the Darkness can kill them effortlessly.

The Colt- Can kill almost anything

Lore

The banshee (from bean sí, meaning "fairy woman" or "woman of the fairy mounds") is a supernatural being found in the folklore of Ireland and Scotland. Traditionally considered a type of fairy, she is a feminine entity whose cry signals the coming of death.

In Ireland and parts of Scotland, women were customarily appointed to wail at funerals. Evidence indicates that this practice (known as keening) goes back as far as the 16th century. According to legend, if the deceased was part of a noble family, the duty of keening would be carried out not by an ordinary human woman, but by a fairy woman, or bean sí. Over time, the word "banshee" came to describe a specific type of fairy woman -- a creature with the power to foretell death with a piercing scream. Some stories indicate that families of Milesian descent each have their own banshee, who follows them wherever they go and warns them whenever someone among them is about to die.

In western popular culture, the banshee is often portrayed as a malevolent spirit or demon who actively causes death with the sound of her voice. She is also commonly depicted as a restless ghost rather than fairy. However, it should be noted that the line between fairies and ghosts is sometimes blurry in Celtic mythology.

Appearances

• Supernatural: Nevermore
• Season 3
  • The Kids Are Alright (Mentioned Only)
• Season 11
  • Into the Mystic