the Tuatha Dé Danann or the gods of Irish mythology. The name aos sí means "folk of the sí"; these are the burial mounds in which they are said to dwell...
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Sussex, Wiltshire and Hampshire. Similar to the Irish and Scottish Aos Sí (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 Sí (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 sí. Doors, windows, byres and livestock would be decorated with yellow May...
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crossed. This meant the aos sí, the 'spirits' or 'fairies', could more easily come into our world. Many scholars see the aos sí as remnants of pagan gods...
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Abhartach (category Aos Sí)
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 Sí)
Irish folk creatures, such as the daoine maithe (good people) or the slua sí (fairy host), said to target humans on the road or along their regular "passes"...
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List of Irish mythological figures (category Aos Sí)
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 Sí)
changeling child, deriving from Síobhra(í), meaning fairy(/fairies). The Aos sí, 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 Sí 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 Sí (the people of the mounds). Sidhe may also refer to: Bean sídhe or banshee...
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Am Fear Liath Mòr (category Aos Sí)
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 Sí)
Attested fairies A–E Adhene Aibell Alp Luachra Anjana Aos Sí (Aes Sídhe) Arkan Sonney Asrai Baobhan sith Banshee Barghest Bean nighe Billy Blind Biróg...
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Dobhar-chú (category Aos Sí)
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 Sí)
Attested fairies A–E Adhene Aibell Alp Luachra Anjana Aos Sí (Aes Sídhe) Arkan Sonney Asrai Baobhan sith Banshee Barghest Bean nighe Billy Blind Biróg...
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Leanan sídhe (category Aos Sí)
figure from Irish folklore. She is depicted as a beautiful woman of the Aos Sí ("people of the fairy mounds") who takes a human lover. Lovers of the leannán...
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Classifications of fairies (category Aos Sí)
Attested fairies A–E Adhene Aibell Alp Luachra Anjana Aos Sí (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 sí or daoine sí ("Otherworld folk"). Irish mythology says the gods retreated into...
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spirits or fairies (the Aos Sí) and the souls of the dead could more easily come into our world. It was believed that the Aos Sí needed to be propitiated...
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Cat-sìth (category Aos Sí)
practitioners to burn the bodies of cats over the course of four days and nights. Aos Sí 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 Sí) 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 Sí Sliabh an Iarainn Twelve Olympians Carey 2006, pp. 1693–1697 Ó hÓgáin 1991...
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Banshee (category Aos Sí)
A banshee (/ˈbænʃiː/ BAN-shee; Modern Irish bean sí [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 Sí, 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 Sí (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 Sí. 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 Sí Citations David Amerland (2017), The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with...
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Buggane (category Aos Sí)
Attested fairies A–E Adhene Aibell Alp Luachra Anjana Aos Sí (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 Sí, were regarded as people. Like words for gods and men, the word elf is used...
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