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síabair

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síabair, síabraid, siabhra, síofra, siabra, siabur, sheevra [Ir. síabraid, arouses to fury, enchants, distorts, bewitches]. Large, malicious elf or fairy of Irish tradition. One was thought to have tried to choke Cormac mac Airt when that pagan king showed an interest in Christianity.

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