Talk:Sídhe
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Aids to pronunciation would help the reader in the English Wikipedia. --Wetman 00:34, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
- There is an aid to pronunciation for this article, using the International Phonetic Alphabet for English, which is the standard used on Wikipedia. If you're not familar with the IPA it's linked in the article. --Nicknack009 01:03, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
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- The definition of this article is wrong, I'm pretty sure. The sídhe themselves are mounds – the enchanted mounds under which the Tuatha Dé fled after the conquest of the sons of Míl. The people of the sídhe are exactly that – in Irish, áes sídhe (or bean sídhe in the case of the women, fear sídhe in the case of the men). Bean, fear, aos simply mean "woman, man, people" in Irish. QuartierLatin1968
03:40, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
- Later, due to a corruption of the meaning, both the mounds and the supernatural entities (i.e. sprites) became known as the síd, modern Irish sídhe --SheeEttin 18:01, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
- The definition of this article is wrong, I'm pretty sure. The sídhe themselves are mounds – the enchanted mounds under which the Tuatha Dé fled after the conquest of the sons of Míl. The people of the sídhe are exactly that – in Irish, áes sídhe (or bean sídhe in the case of the women, fear sídhe in the case of the men). Bean, fear, aos simply mean "woman, man, people" in Irish. QuartierLatin1968
[edit] History of the sídh
The history of the Sí got muddled slightly in the middle ages, and it became part of the lore that they were among the angels exciled from heaven for siding with the devil himself and/or not picking a side. I'm reluctant to add this information as although I have a source for it, I have been unable to locate the full text and I'd much prefere a read through before editing the article, its TUATHA DE AS FALLEN ANGELS published way back in 1932, its also explains why the Sí have white blood, I really want to help spruce up theses Irish folklore articles a bit. --Meirleach 00:58, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
