Bantam is also a breed of chickens. Both of my grandmothers had Bantams in their chicken pens. When we first moved out here, my mom gave me a pair of Bantams, a rooster and a hen. The raccoons killed them both... pulled their heads of through the chicken wire on the pen.

JJ, are you thinking of banshee? or phantom?

jabber, the Bonnie Rose poem made me sad.