The couple's daughter, Eileen Leahy, survived, but lost her hearing. Padraic's wife Maura was able to banish the creature, but at the cost of her own life. In County Cork, Ireland 1986, a banshee broke into the Leahy house in order to feed on Padraic Leahy, who was suffering a nervous break down from losing his job. 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.īenevolent banshees are tied to fairy lore and cry out to warn of impending death. 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. Malevolent banshees are able to produce high-pitched screams that can drive anyone who hears their scream to commit suicide. Like ghosts, they emit strong electromagnetism, which causes lights to flicker when they approach accordingly, EMF meters are highly responsive in rooms where a banshee was recently present. This is evidenced in Lie Ability as Valack, himself, meets this fate.Malevolent banshees look like a female with dark flowing hair, sunken eyes in robes. Valack, in The Last Chimera, she could shatter a human skull with her voice as well.
The scream is seen as a strong sound wave capable of throwing people and objects short distances. In Season 5, Meredith says they can use their scream as a offensive weapon as well. Lydia is also able to communicate with a fellow Banshee, Meredith Walker, to tell Stiles that she doesn't want to be found (see Insatiable). The Nogitsune kidnaps Lydia to use her power so that he will know when the Oni are close enough to kill him. Peter uses Lydia to listen to the whispers from his sister's claws in Letharia Vulpina and learns he has a child. This was seen in Motel California when she heard the voices of the people killed at the motel, in Riddled as she heard Stiles' voice coming from a speaker and other whispers when she plucked the strings in his bedroom. It appears that she is connected to some supernatural network that broadcasts messages about death and dying. According to Teen Wolf Creator Jeff Davis it is "the whispers of other banshees." Peter says Lydia's scream is a means to an end, drowning out all other sounds so that she can focus on the voices only she can hear.
As the rate of killings increased, Lydia increasingly found herself subconsciously drawn to the scenes. This connection was made clear in Season 3. When she screamed after her hallucination at the hospital, Scott heard the sound at Allison's house and it seemed to reach far into the Beacon Hills Preserve as well.Īlso in Omega, Lydia's wanderings in the woods ended up at a scene of death. We first saw just how far Lydia's scream carries in the Season 2 opener Omega. She was unaffected by kanima venom and the effects of an Alpha werewolf's bite.įrom what we know so far, Lydia has a few traits common to the Banshee of legend. For example, Lydia can cross Mountain Ash barriers which no supernatural creature on the show can cross. Chris Argent explains in Maid of Gevaudan that banshees have a connection to the supernatural but are not controlled by it. Teen Wolf Banshee are NOT Supernatural? Mountain Ash Testīanshees are not supernatural.