Banshee
{{bansheesMain|size: large; margin-right: 10px; float: left}}On Teen Wolf, the banshee is a human woman with the ability to access the supernatural and is a harbinger of death. They are known as the Wailing Woman.
A banshee experiences premonitions of one's impending death. Their predictions appear to them as causal factors of near- or affirmative death experienes. A banshee's predictions are not set in stone and do not always come true.
Series
[[Lydia Martin]] was born a banshee, though she was initially unaware of her trait. In [[Season 2]], after she was [[Alphas+The Bite|bitten]] by [[alphas|alpha]] [[werewolf]] [[Peter Hale]], Lydia's powers came out and began to manifest. In [[Season 3]], Lydia was finally identified as a banshee by [[Jennifer Blake]]. Lydia, now aware of and having accepted her abilities, uses them in her role in [[Scott's Pack]] to solve mysteries, determine when, where and how death occurs, to learn how to prevent an oncoming murder or catastrophe from happening.
Another banshee, [[Meredith Walker]] appears in [[Season 3]] and is a patient at [[Eichen House]]. Meredith acts both as an ally to Lydia and the pack, teaching Lydia how to hone her powers as well as an anti-villain, being [[the benefactor]] in [[Season 4]].
[[Lorraine Martin]], Lydia's paternal grandmother, was also a banshee, whom was instrumental in producing the [[deadpool]]. In [[Season 6]], a middle-aged, extremely powerful banshee named Lenore appears who was the sole survivor when [[the Wild Hunt]] appeared in her town and erased every resident.
Supernatural rules
Banshees are human in appearance with no power to [[shapeshifting|shapeshift]] nor any superhuman abilities. As such they have the same physical tamra and mortality as the regular human being.
A person can be born with the banshee trait. [[Lydia Martin]] inherited her banshee ability from her paternal grandmother, [[Lorraine Martin]].
Though banshees have supernatural abilities, they are not actually supernatural beings as in the manner of a [[kitsune]] or a [[werewolf]], they are not controlled by the supernatural. They are instead able to access and manipulate the preternatural forces to their will. Due to this, a banshee is immune to general supernatural phenomena. [[Mountain ash]] has no effect towards them and they can even touch or cast barriers out of the wood themselves. Similarly, they are not affected by an [[Alphas|alpha werecreature]]'s [[alphas+the bite|bite]] or a [[kanima]]'s neurotoxin. In [[Season 6]], it is shown that banshees also cannot be taken by [[the Wild Hunt]], due to Ghost Riders having an instinctive avoidance of them.
A banshee, due to being able to access the supernatural have a multitude of psychic abilities that work in tandem with their premonitions, particularly clairvoyance, telepathy and astral projection. A banshee is able of sharing a psychic or telepathic connection with fellow harbingers of death, like a [[hellhound]].
Abilities
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