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Her gentle, kindly mistress had vanished like smoke, taken over by a deamhan, a she-devil.
Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997
chained_bear commented on the word deamhan
"Her gentle, kindly mistress had vanished like smoke, taken over by a deamhan, a she-devil."
—Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn (NY: Dell, 1997), 703
January 20, 2010