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grief weaponized into sound, a wail so old it predates language itself.
irish rootsFrom caoineadh, meaning to cry or lament aloud
professional mournersWomen were once paid to keen at funerals
church banned itCatholic clergy condemned keening as pagan excess
banshee linkThe wailing banshee is keening's supernatural cousin
nearly extinctThe traditional Irish keen had vanished by 1900s