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Sìth

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The other-crowd of Scottish Gaelic folk talk, also called daoine sìth. Not Irish aos sí under a Scots spelling, and not the English fairy class.

Also known as daoine sìth · daoine sith

Celtic tradition

  • Sìth is historically related to Mountain.

    Keightley seats the sìth / fairy folk of Scottish Gaelic lore among mound and hill dwellers — sìth speech, not aos sí Irish alone as identical dump.

    from Thomas Keightley · The Fairy Mythology, 1828 (enlarged PD eds. mid-19th c.)

    historically related to · sourced · documented

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