Banshee

Banshees are a rare breed of demons with distinctive white hair and a high pitched scream. Their screams can burst glass and blood vessels, killing mortals or turning emotionally confused witches into new Banshees.

Powers of a witch are capable of vanquishing a Banshee, as seen when Piper Halliwell blew up a Banshee with her new power. When a witch is transformed into a Banshee, the only way to revert her is for her to deal with her emotional pain. However, the transformation will become permanent when she kills a person.

The Book of Shadows has an entry on Banshees, as well as a spell to track them. However, this will turn the caster into a dog, as only they are capable of hearing the cries of a Banshee other than the victim. The Book however lacks information on how to vanquish them, but Banshees are vulnerable to powers such as Molecular Combustion.

Powers and Abilities
Active Powers
 * Sonic Scream: The ability to generate vocal sounds of a higher amplitude than a normal human.
 * Super Strength: The ability to have magically augmented physical strength and stamina.
 * Agility: The ability that provides the possessor with inhuman agility, reflexes, and speed.
 * Levitation: The ability to propel oneself up in the air and hover. The Banshee could leap great distances with it.
 * Power Granting: The ability to grant any number of powers to another being. Banshees could turn a witch pre-disposed to emotional pain into a Banshee.

Appendices

 * Banshee bos.jpg(Book of Shadows text:)

A Banshee

 * is a Demon who
 * wanders the earth
 * feeding on souls in
 * great pain. Hunting
 * only at night, this
 * Demon uses her voice
 * as a high pitched Call
 * to locate a victim, by
 * hearing the inner cry.


 * She does this by
 * zeroing in on the waves
 * of pain that emanate
 * from the stricken


 * A Banshee then
 * elevates her Call
 * into a Scream, so
 * powerful it kills
 * those she targets.

To Track a Banshee

 * The piercing cry
 * That feeds on pain
 * And leaves more
 * Sorrow than it gains
 * Shall now be heard
 * By one who seeks
 * To stop the havoc
 * That it wreaks

Notes and Trivia

 * This is the first demon Piper Halliwell blows up on purpose.
 * The Banshee's ability and method of turning a good witch into another Banshee are similar to how Furies also turn witches into one of their own. They both prey on witches with emotional distress, with the difference that Banshees target sorrow while Furies target anger. Both also managed to turn a Charmed One in the episodes of Charmed that they were introduced.
 * Like a lot of the demonic beings on Charmed, the Banshee is an actual mythological being. The Banshee is rooted from Gaelic and Irish Folklore. These cultures believed that a Banshee's, or Bean Sí's, scream would foretell an upcoming death. If the banshee was caught, it would be obliged to reveal the name of the person who was supposed to die.