THE CONCORDANCE

wailing

2 records across 2 traditions carry this current.

Europe & the North · 1

BansheeOmen · IrelandA woman of the Irish and Scottish Otherworld whose mournful cry is said to foretell a death in certain families — a herald, not a killer.

South Asia · 1

BodilimaSpectre · Sri LankaIn Sinhalese folklore, the spirit of a woman who died in childbirth and was buried with the child still within her. A household and night wailer, related in kind to other South Asian childbirth revenants but locally named bodirima or bodilima.