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Superstitions & Folk Belief

The Memoirs of Ann, Lady Fanshawe

by Ann Fanshawe

The seventeenth-century memoir of a royalist diplomat's wife, written for her son and first printed in 1829. Among its accounts of war, exile and travel is a famous description of a ghostly woman seen at a house in Ireland, often cited as an early banshee report.

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