All banshee synonyms
ban·shee
B b noun banshee
- ghost — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
- phantom — an apparition or specter.
- devil — In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the Devil is the most powerful evil spirit.
- demon — A demon is an evil spirit.
- soul — the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body, and commonly held to be separable in existence from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical part.
- shadow — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- specter — a visible incorporeal spirit, especially one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition.
- vision — the act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight.
- vampire — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
- apparition — An apparition is someone you see or think you see but who is not really there as a physical being.
- revenant — a person who returns.
- appearance — When someone makes an appearance at a public event or in a broadcast, they take part in it.
- haunt — to visit habitually or appear to frequently as a spirit or ghost: to haunt a house; to haunt a person.
- visitor — a person who visits, as for reasons of friendship, business, duty, travel, or the like.
- shade — the comparative darkness caused by the interception or screening of rays of light from an object, place, or area.
- spook — Informal. a ghost; specter.
- poltergeist — a ghost or spirit supposed to manifest its presence by noises, knockings, etc.
- phantasm — an apparition or specter.
- wraith — an apparition of a living person supposed to portend his or her death.
- daemon — a demigod
- manes — the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
- kelpie — Australian kelpie.
- zombie — the body of a dead person given the semblance of life, but mute and will-less, by a supernatural force, usually for some evil purpose. the supernatural force itself.
- spirit — the principle of conscious life; the vital principle in humans, animating the body or mediating between body and soul.
- doppelganger — a ghostly double or counterpart of a living person.
- bogeyman — A bogeyman is someone whose ideas or actions are disapproved of by some people, and who is described by them as evil or unpleasant in order to make other people afraid.
- bogey — A bogey is something or someone that people are worried about, perhaps without much cause or reason.
- visitant — a temporary resident; visitor; guest.
- phantasma — phantasm (defs 1, 2).
- ghoul — an evil demon, originally of Muslim legend, supposed to feed on human beings, and especially to rob graves, prey on corpses, etc.
- spectre — a visible incorporeal spirit, especially one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition.
- haunter — to visit habitually or appear to frequently as a spirit or ghost: to haunt a house; to haunt a person.
- bogle — a scarecrow