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far liath


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[Ir. fear liath, grey man].

Malevolent fairy of Hiberno-Irish tradition, a personification of fog. He covers the land and sea with his mantle, darkening roads so that travellers unwittingly stumble over precipices to their deaths and obscuring rocks so that ships crash upon them.

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