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Irish fairy folk
Answer for the clue "Irish fairy folk ", 5 letters:
sidhe
Word definitions for sidhe in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sidhe are Irish earthen mounds, 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:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"the hills of the fairies," 1793; but in Yeats, "the fairie folk" (1899), elipsis of Irish (aos) sidhe "people of the faerie mound" (compare second element in banshee ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. Supernatural creatures of Irish and Scottish folklore, who live in Sidhe; fairies. (From 1899, Yeats) n. Supernatural creatures of Irish and Scottish folklore, who live in Sidhe; fairies. (From 1899, Yeats)
Usage examples of sidhe.
They passed within five or six paces of Michael and Biri, ignoring them, and stopped just beyond the Sidhe camp.
He remembered Biri running around the rock, powdering it, and Biri was just a young, inexperienced Sidhe.
No sidhe would have called him kingmaker to his face, or queenmaker either.
It was an insult to insist on modesty in a nonsexual situation among most of the fey, certainly among the sidhe.
The two sidhe were locked together, bodies straining against one another.
SOB put forward the fear that, once we had leprechauns here, all the Sidhe would henceforth pack up and move to Angels City.
Breeds have Sidhe relatives, and that means connections with Arborals.
He had watched the life and blood drain from the Sidhe, and had heard him call for the Arborals___ And now Alyons stood before him, grinning as if nothing had happened.
Duncan Blackletter, like Doc one of the rare full-blooded Daoine Sidhe, had been a criminal mastermind on the fair world decades ago.
Behind him, the passage echoed to the wheels of the chariots of Lugh, Dove Berg, Angus Og, Eochy, Coll, Cecht, Mac Greina, Mananaan, the whole host of the Sidhe, to hoofs of horses and running feet.
It was not Raghallach they had taken, but the Sidhe Nuallan-Nuallan they dragged struggling away in the other direction, past the door with its wards, its diminishments of Sidhe power.
However, numerous beings of civilian garb were observed disembarking from a military cruiser, the Ban Sidhe.
When the Sidhe came to their World, there were no ash trees in Faerie.
He was certain that her mask of emotionlessness, even the fighting skills the Sidhe Foundation held in such evident regard, could not really shield her.
If a sidhe has sex with a human and doesn't try to tone down the magic, they can turn the human into a sort of addict.