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Sluagh Spirits

Folklore
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Irish fairy host of restless dead, flying west at night to snatch souls, warded by locked doors facing east.

Detailed Definition
The Sluagh, from Gaelic lore, bird-like horde of exiles, symbolizing communal unrest. Literature hosts them in Yeats' "The Celtic Twilight." In poetry, they flock his "The Hosting"; poets snatch for spectral themes, ideal for twilight ballads, where wings beat exile's wind, enhancing folklore with migratory doom.
Example
Example in poetry:
W.B. Yeats' "The Stolen Child" hints at Sluagh Spirits' aerial host; In Irish folklore poetry, they snatch the dying; A wind-rush poem flees Sluagh's crowd; Celtic myths teach restless dead; Modern spectral verse uses Sluagh for diaspora; Ballads warn of their western flight.
Additional Notes
Sluagh Spirits, "host" of sidhe dead, west-flying snatchers; Yeats' stolen children; tips: aerial swarms for unrest; related: wild hunt or banshee; Irish context: diaspora souls, for migratory hauntings.
Also Known As
Sluagh Sluagh na marbh Fairy Host Host of the Dead Host of the Unforgiven Dead Slua Sluagh Sidhe
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