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The leannán sídhe (lit. ' fairy lover '; [1] Scottish Gaelic: leannan sìth, Manx: lhiannan shee; [lʲan̴̪-an ˈʃiː]) is a figure from Irish folklore. [2] She is depicted as a beautiful woman of the Aos Sí ("people of the fairy mounds") who takes a human lover.
Aos sí (pronounced [iːsˠ ˈʃiː]; English approximation: / iː s ˈ ʃ iː / eess SHEE; older form: aes sídhe [eːsˠ ˈʃiːə]) is the Irish name for a supernatural race in Gaelic folklore, similar to elves.
The Denizen within Lamis is Rasen no Fuukin, who in the past went under the name Leanan-sidhe and assumed the form of a young girl who fell in love with a human painter, whose discovery of her eating humans may have caused her to stop eating them. After she was captured and imprisoned by a Crimson Lord, by the time she was released, the painter ...
Leanan Sídhe (リャナン・シー, Ryanan Shī) Voiced by: Saori Hayami [ 6 ] [ 7 ] (Japanese); Morgan Garrett [ 9 ] (English) A beautiful vampiric faerie who loves men and gives them talent at the cost of dying young.
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: Irish mythology
Lady Wilde (Speranza) mentions them in a publication just prior to Yeats' Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland, 1887), and there's a much earlier reference in the 1854 Transactions of the Ossianic Society, although that refers to a male Leanan Sidhe troubling a mortal woman ...
A bean-nighe ('washerwoman') is a specific type of ban-sìth. [8]Both the Irish bean sídhe and the Scottish Gaelic ban-sìth (both meaning 'woman of the sídhe ', 'fairy woman' or 'woman of peace') are derived from the Old Irish ben síde, 'fairy woman': bean: 'woman', and sídhe: the genitive of 'fairy'.
The cù-sìth(e) (Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [kʰuː ˈʃiː]), plural coin-shìth(e) (Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [kʰɔɲ ˈhiː]) is a mythical hound found in Irish folklore and Scottish folklore.