The Bunworth Banshi
Bunworth's Banshi is a fairy tale . It is contained in the Irish fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 17, which they translated in 1825 from Fairy legends and traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker .
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Carl Bunworth, Pastor at Buttevant , Cork , is known for his helpfulness, especially with wandering harpists. The shepherd Kavanagh brings medicines from Mallow for what are believed to be harmlessly ill. He upset tells how a Banshi beside his way shouting and händeklatschend walked. Bunworth's daughter pays little attention to it, but asks not to tell anyone. A week later, many people hear the banshi in front of the sick person's window. But those who go out and look, meanwhile hear nothing. In the morning he dies.
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According to Grimm, there are records of Carl Bunworth, who really lived and of whom a harp was still in the family's possession , in S. Ryan's Worthies of Ireland I. 228 and on the keening of the Banshi in the fourth volume of the negotiations of the royal Irish Academie .
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- Irish fairy tales. In the broadcast by the Brothers Grimm. Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, first edition 1987. pp. 192–196, 265. (Insel Verlag; ISBN 978-3-458-32688-5 ; The text follows the edition: Irish fairy tales. Translated by the Brothers Grimm. Friedrich Fleischer , Leipzig 1826. Orthography and punctuation were slightly normalized.)