# Banshee

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> [!infobox]
> ![banshee](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/banshee.webp)
> **Type:** Medium undead
> **Alignment:** chaotic evil
> **Challenge:** 4 (1100 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 12
> **Hit Points:** 54 (12d8)
> **Speed:** 5 ft, fly 40 ft

## Stat block

A wailing spirit: a withering touch, a face that terrifies, and a cry that can kill outright.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 54 (12d8) | 5 ft, fly 40 ft | 4 | 1100 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (-5) | 14 (+2) | 10 (+0) | 12 (+1) | 11 (+0) | 17 (+3) |

- **Saving throws:** WIS +2
- **Resistant:** acid, bludgeoning, fire, lightning, piercing, slashing, thunder
- **Immune:** cold, necrotic, poison
- **Condition immunities:** charmed, exhaustion, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained
- **Senses:** darkvision 60 ft; passive Perception 10
- **Languages:** Common, Elvish

### Traits

- **Detect Life.** Senses the direction of living creatures (not Constructs or Undead) within a mile.
- **Incorporeal Movement.** Moves through creatures and objects as Difficult Terrain; 5 (1d10) Force if it ends a turn inside one.

### Actions

- **Multiattack.** Two Corrupting Touches and Horrify.
- **Corrupting Touch.** A withering touch.
- **Horrify.** DC 13 Wis save by a creature within 60 ft that sees it, or Frightened until the banshee's next turn; success gives a day's immunity.
- **Deathly Wail.** Once a day: everyone within 30 ft but Constructs and Undead makes a DC 13 Con save; a failure drops one at 25 HP or fewer to 0, else 3d6 Psychic.

## Where you meet it

- [The Amber Temple: Hall of the Faceless God](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-amber-temple-hall-of-the-faceless-god.md): [The Wailing Hall](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-wailing-hall.md) · *Patrina screams, and the frozen students at their desks lift their heads to scream with her.*
- [The Ruins of Berez](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-ruins-of-berez.md): [The One-Horned Billy](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-one-horned-billy.md) · *The Rag Queen steps down off her post, twice the height of a man, all rotten silk and lace and faces in the…*
- [Under Van Richten's Tower](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/under-van-richtens-tower.md): *The books on every shelf open at once with a sound like birds, and the people written in them come out of the…*
- [Village of Barovia](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/village-of-barovia.md): *The water in the well climbs the shaft on its own. She comes up out of it in her wedding veil, screaming, and…*