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From Irish; see Sidhe.

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  • "Undertow", the leanan sidhe story last year's sponsors got.

    Thor's Day aquablogathon09 2009

  • "Undertow", the leanan sidhe story last year's sponsors got.

    Tew's Day! rosefox 2009

  • A lot of the time it's leanan sidhe, although once in a while you might hear something about a pooka.

    Automatic Typewriter Brianne Baxtali 2011

  • Merry Gentry is a PI, part sidhe, part brownie, part human.

    St Louis Writer Writes Back « Urban Fantasy Land 2008

  • My favorite mystical creature would be dark sidhe.

    Interview & Giveaway: YA Urban Fantasy Author, Leslie Livingston Donna 2010

  • There is, I think, no country side in Ireland where they will not tell you, if you can conquer their mistrust, of some man or woman or child who was lately or still is in the power of the gentry, or ‘the others’, or ‘the fairies’, or ‘the sidhe’, or the ‘forgetful people’, as they call the dead and the lesser gods of ancient times.

    Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

  • When defeated by the Milesians, the Tuatha De Danaan took refuge in the mounds or sidhe.

    Archive 2009-05-01 elena maria vidal 2009

  • When defeated by the Milesians, the Tuatha De Danaan took refuge in the mounds or sidhe.

    Fairies elena maria vidal 2009

  • His sister could use her sidhe magick to teleport anywhere she wanted.

    Struck by Beauty Megan Arkenberg 2009

  • June 15, 2009 at 6:46 am ooo tankies sidhe cat! schmoos and hedbonks tew all dis ebernin! hao r u awl dis fyne sunny day?

    Cheez burger masheen - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

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  • In Irish mythology the aos sí (older form, aes sídhe), pronounced "ess shee", are a powerful, supernatural race comparable to the fairies or elves of other traditions. They are variously believed to live underground in the fairy mounds, across the western sea, or in an invisible world that coexists with the world of humans.

    In the Gaelic languages, the "people of the mounds" are also referred to in Irish as the daoine sídhe ("deena shee"), and in Scottish Gaelic as the daoine sìth or daoine sìdh. They are variously believed to be the ancestors, the spirits of nature, or the goddesses and gods themselves.

    _Wikipedia

    February 11, 2008

  • From "Haile Selassie Funeral Train" by Guy Davenport.

    January 19, 2010

  • "'Ye call them sidhe in the Gaelic. The Cherokee call them the Nunnahee. And the Mohawk have names for them, too—more than one. But when I heard Eats Turtles tell of them, I kent at once what they were. It's the same—the Old Folk.'"

    —Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (New York: Bantam Dell, 2005), 608

    February 1, 2010