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Thank you. Cork, Ireland, the 14th of September 1772.

Charles Bunworth is dead.

Bunworth was a beloved Church of Ireland rector and harpist who had long helped join religious

divides in the town of Brigogue and beyond. He was affectionately referred to as the minister.

A fluent Irish speaker and the descendant of the Irish patriot John Philpott Curran,

in life Bunworth had been well versed in the traditions and folklore of Ireland.

His death, however, had not come as a surprise to some.

The supposed circumstances surrounding Bunworth's death were documented by his great-great-grandson,

Thomas Crofter Croker, in fairy legends and traditions of the South of Ireland in 1825.

In it, Crofton Croker assures his readers that, quote,

There are still living credible witnesses who can declare the authenticity of what follows,

and who can be produced to attest most, if not all, of the following particulars.

But what were those particulars?

What was so notable about Bunworth's death?

Well, according to his great-great-grandson,

his passing had been foretold by a haggard old lady,

sitting under a tree near his house almost a week before he died.

There was no doubt in the minds of the people of Burgogh

that they had been visited by none other than the Banshee herself.

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