The word slogan is derived from slogorn which was an Anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic sluagh-ghairm tanmay ( sluagh " army ", " host " + gairm " cry ").

Each sluagh catered for itself and there were joint activities organised.

The banshee ( ), from the Irish bean sí (" woman of the sídhe " or " woman of the fairy mounds ") is a feminine spirit in Irish mythology, usually seen as an omen of death and a messenger from the Otherworld.

Looking for revenge, Mac Cinnfhaelaidh calls on a leanan sídhe ( fairy woman ) called Biróg, who transports him by magic to the top of Balor's tower, where he seduces Eithne.

Other varieties of aos sí and daoine sìth include the Scottish bean nighe: the washerwoman who is seen washing the bloody clothing or armour of the person who is doomed to die ; the leanan sídhe: the " fairy lover "; the Cat Sìth: a fairy cat ; and the Cù Sìth: fairy dog.

After being defeated in a series of battles with other otherworldly beings, and then by the ancestors of the current Irish people, they were said to have withdrawn to the sídhe ( fairy mounds ), where they lived on in popular imagination as " fairies.

Biróg, in Irish mythology, is a leanan sídhe or fairy woman.

The village name in Gaelic, Sròn an t-Sìthein, translates as the nose ' point ' of the fairy hill, meaning a knoll or low round hill inhabited by the mythological sídhe.

Afterwards, the Tuatha Dé Danann are said to have retreated into the sídhe ( fairy mounds ), cloaking their presence by raising the féth fiada ( fairy mist ).

The aos sí (, "", older form aes sídhe ), "") is the Irish Gaelic term for a supernatural race in Irish mythology and Scottish mythology comparable to the fairies or elves.

In a number of later English language texts the word sídhe is used both for the mounds and the people of the mounds.

Following the Tuatha Dé Danann's defeat in the battle of Tailtiu, Bodb is elected king of the Tuatha Dé Danann in the " Children of Lir ", just as the Tuatha Dé are going underground to dwell in the sídhe.

When Étaín is brought back to the Otherworld by her original sídhe lover Midir, Crochen accompanies them and on their way to Midir's underground palace they spend some time in a mound known as Síd Sinche.

The best known sídhe sites in Ireland are: Knockma, where the throne of Finvarra ( King of the fairies of Connaught ) is located, Knockany, ruled by Ainé, Queen of Munster, and Newgrange in county Meath, a megalithic passage tomb which is associated with the deities Boann, Angus Óg and The Dagda.

A baobhan sith ( pronounced baa '- van shee ) is a type of female vampire in Scottish mythology, similar to the banshee or leanan sídhe.

Sometimes he stays among the sídhe forever, and sometimes he returns with knowledge and gifts for his people.

It also has a remote parallel in the Irish sídhe.

In the Irish language, aos sí means " people of the mounds " ( the mounds are known in Irish as " the sídhe ").

In Irish literature the people of the mounds are also called daoine sídhe ; in Scottish mythology they are daoine sìth.

As part of the terms of their surrender to the Milesians the Tuatha Dé Danann agreed to retreat and dwell underground in the sídhe ( modern Irish: sí ; Scottish Gaelic: sìth ; Old Irish síde, singular síd ), the hills or earthen mounds that dot the Irish landscape.

Nera goes on to complete the task and eventually infiltrates the sídhe where he remains trapped until next Samhain.

Yeats refer to aos sí simply as " the sídhe " ( lit.

The fact that many of these sídhe have been found to be ancient burial mounds has contributed to the theory that the aos sí were the pre-Celtic occupants of Ireland.

The Banshee or bean sídhe, which means " woman of the sídhe ", has come to indicate any supernatural women of Ireland who announce a coming death by wailing and keening.

According to a Dindshenchas poem, Cruachan was named after Crochen, the handmaid of Étaín, a sídhe maiden re-born as a mortal.

But a man called Mac Cinnfhaelaidh, whose magical cow Balor stole, gains access to Ethniu's tower, with the magical help of the leanan sídhe Biróg and seduces her.

The Tuatha had no other choice than to take refuge under the sídhe, a Celtic word which denotes the hills where the long barrows lay.

The fairies who live in the mounds are known as the aos sí or the daoine sídhe.

The sídhe can be found by humans in certain times in the year, especially at Midsummer, when the daoine sídhe might be seen dancing under the moonlight.

Legend has it that for five great Gaelic families — the O ' Gradys, the O ' Neills, the Ó Briains, the Ó Conchobhairs, and the Caomhánachs — the lament would be sung by a fairy woman ; having foresight, she would sing the lament when a family member died, even if the person had died far away and news of their death had not yet come, so that the wailing of the banshee was the first warning the household had of the death.

The story ends with a hint of hope for him, as he admits his responsibility for what happened to Podkayne — that he " fubbed it, mighty dry " — then shows some human feeling by regretting his inability to cry and describes his plan to raise the fairy himself.

* Christmas pantomime ( British English ) — a type of musical comedy performed around Christmas based on a fairy tale

Before he was captured, Jean Valjean had already traveled near to Montfermeil and buried all the money he'd saved as M. Madeleine — a chapter tells of a worker in Montfermeil, a former Toulon convict, who claims having seen, according to a local fairy tale, the devil burying his treasure in the forest.

Four of them — The Water Goblin, The Noon Witch, The Golden Spinning Wheel and The Wild Dove — are based on poems from Karel Jaromír Erben's Kytice ( Bouquet ) collection of fairy tales.

While sometimes folklore seems to show fairy intrusion into human lands — " Tam Lin " does not show any otherworldly aspects about the land in which the confrontation takes place — at other times the otherworldly aspects are clear.

He read only selected books — English fairy stories, English and French classics ; no crime stories.

The story in effect combines the Rip Van Winkle-type fairy tale — where a person goes underground in the company of dwarves or elves, spending an apparently brief time but on emerging finding whole generations had elapsed — with modern science fiction having the same effect through relativity and the time dilation resulting from traveling at near-light velocities.

Zeb is surprised by this strange new land, but Dorothy surmises that they are in a fairy country because they are meeting vegetable people and the animals — Jim and Eureka — are now speaking.

One of the manifestations of fairy ring growth is a necrotic zone — an area in which grass or other plant life has withered or died.

Numerous legends focus on mortals entering a fairy ring — and the consequences.

Her most recent album, Journey to The Snow Queen, is more of an audio book — she reads the Snow Queen fairy tale with Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker in the background.

She sees Merryweather High School as the " ideal fairy tale domain ", featuring easily categorized characters — a witchy mother, a shape-shifting best friend, a beastly rapist.

* Oognat: The hair fairy — not as bold or adventurous as Pibgorn, Oognat nonetheless ends up in many of the same difficulties as her companion fairy.

The story retells the famous fairy tale of Snow White from the point of view of Snow White's stepmother, who is traditionally the villain of the piece but is here depicted as struggling desperately — and ultimately, unsuccessfully, as the " happy ending " takes place on schedule — to save the kingdom from her unnatural and monstrous stepdaughter.