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    the Tuatha Dé Danann or the gods of Irish mythology. The name aos means "folk of the "; these are the burial mounds in which they are said to dwell...
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    Fairy (section Aos )
    lore the Aos ('people of the fairy mounds') are immortals living in the ancient barrows and cairns. The Irish banshee (Irish Gaelic bean , previously...
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    Sussex, Wiltshire and Hampshire. Similar to the Irish and Scottish Aos (also spelled Aos Sidhe), pixies are believed to inhabit ancient underground sites...
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    though some may call it fairy, is clearly to be distinguished from the Aos (or the 'good people') of the fairy mounds (sidhe) and raths. Leprachaun...
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    accompanied by a feast, and some of the food and drink would be offered to the aos . Doors, windows, byres and livestock would be decorated with yellow May...
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    crossed. This meant the aos , the 'spirits' or 'fairies', could more easily come into our world. Many scholars see the aos as remnants of pagan gods...
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  • Abhartach (category Aos )
    Abhartach (pronounced [ˈəuɾˠt̪ˠəx]; Irish for 'dwarf'), also Avartagh, is an early Irish legend, which was first collected in Patrick Weston Joyce's The...
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    Púca (category Aos )
    Irish folk creatures, such as the daoine maithe (good people) or the slua (fairy host), said to target humans on the road or along their regular "passes"...
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  • Figures in Irish mythology include the following: Aengus - god of passionate and romantic love, youth and poetic inspiration Áine - goddess of parental...
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    Changeling (category Aos )
    changeling child, deriving from Síobhra(í), meaning fairy(/fairies). The Aos , siabhra (commonly anglicised as "sheevra"), may be prone to evil and mischief...
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  • community, a caste in western Rajasthan, India Sidh, the abodes of the Aos in Celtic mythology Supersingular Isogeny Diffie–Hellman Key Exchange, post-quantum...
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  • which in Irish folklore and mythology are believed to be the home of the Aos (the people of the mounds). Sidhe may also refer to: Bean sídhe or banshee...
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  • Am Fear Liath Mòr (category Aos )
    In Scottish folklore, Am Fear Liath Mòr (Scottish Gaelic for 'Big Grey Man'; pronounced [əm ˈfɛɾ ʎiə ˈmoːɾ]; also known as the Big Grey Man of Ben Macdui...
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    Clurichaun (category Aos )
    Attested fairies A–E Adhene Aibell Alp Luachra Anjana Aos (Aes Sídhe) Arkan Sonney Asrai Baobhan sith Banshee Barghest Bean nighe Billy Blind Biróg...
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    Dobhar-chú (category Aos )
    The Dobhar-chú (Irish pronunciation: [ˈd̪ˠoːɾˠxuː]; lit. 'water dog' or 'water hound'), or King Otter, is a creature of Irish and Scottish folklore. It...
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    Selkie (category Aos )
    Attested fairies A–E Adhene Aibell Alp Luachra Anjana Aos (Aes Sídhe) Arkan Sonney Asrai Baobhan sith Banshee Barghest Bean nighe Billy Blind Biróg...
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  • Leanan sídhe (category Aos )
    figure from Irish folklore. She is depicted as a beautiful woman of the Aos ("people of the fairy mounds") who takes a human lover. Lovers of the leannán...
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  • Classifications of fairies (category Aos )
    Attested fairies A–E Adhene Aibell Alp Luachra Anjana Aos (Aes Sídhe) Arkan Sonney Asrai Baobhan sith Banshee Barghest Bean nighe Billy Blind Biróg...
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    dwellings") and were the dwellings of the gods, later called the aos or daoine ("Otherworld folk"). Irish mythology says the gods retreated into...
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    spirits or fairies (the Aos ) and the souls of the dead could more easily come into our world. It was believed that the Aos needed to be propitiated...
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    Cat-sìth (category Aos )
    practitioners to burn the bodies of cats over the course of four days and nights. Aos Beast of Bodmin Cù-sìth Cath Palug Grimalkin Kellas cat List of fictional...
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  • categories: the fairy race and the solitary fairies. The race of fairy people (Aos ) were thought to be descendants of the Tuatha Dé Danann, a godlike race...
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    Goibnenn the smith Luchtaine the wright Crédne the craftsman Æsir Anunnaki Aos Sliabh an Iarainn Twelve Olympians Carey 2006, pp. 1693–1697 Ó hÓgáin 1991...
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    Banshee (category Aos )
    A banshee (/ˈbænʃiː/ BAN-shee; Modern Irish bean [bʲən̪ˠ ˈʃiː], from Old Irish: ben síde [bʲen ˈʃiːðʲe], "woman of the fairy mound" or "fairy woman")...
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    boundary between this world and the Otherworld thinned. This meant the Aos , the 'spirits' or 'fairies', could more easily come into this world and...
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    Attested fairies A–E Adhene Aibell Alp Luachra Anjana Aos (Aes Sídhe) Arkan Sonney Asrai Baobhan sith Banshee Barghest Bean nighe Billy Blind Biróg...
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    mythological creatures corresponding to the fairy folk of Welsh and Irish folklore Aos . Other names for them include Bendith y Mamau ("Blessing of the Mothers")...
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  • have a medical, rather than supernatural, explanation. Ghillie suit Dryad Aos Citations David Amerland (2017), The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with...
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    Buggane (category Aos )
    Attested fairies A–E Adhene Aibell Alp Luachra Anjana Aos (Aes Sídhe) Arkan Sonney Asrai Baobhan sith Banshee Barghest Bean nighe Billy Blind Biróg...
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    suggests that Anglo-Saxon elves, like elves in Scandinavia or the Irish Aos , were regarded as people. Like words for gods and men, the word elf is used...
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