Crossword-Solution: SIDH 4 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

What is yonder shape skirting the lawn? Is it the Daoine Sidh?' 'Why do you call her "the downy she"? She is no more artful than other people.

Joyce, the well-known Irish scholar and historian, states: "that it is very probable that the belief in the existence of fairies came in with the earliest colonists that entered Ireland, and that this belief is recorded in the oldest of native Irish writings in a way that proves it to have been, at the time treated of, long established and universally received." Colgan himself supplies us with the name and derivation of the Irish word for fairy, Sidh (shee), still used throughout the country.

And they knew not whence they came, or in what form, or from what people, or from what country; but they supposed them to be Duine Sidh, or gods of the earth, or a phantasm." As suggested, the belief of the Princesses obtains to this very day amongst the peasantry of remote districts in Ireland, who still maintain that the fairies inhabit the Sidhe, or hills, and record instances of relations and friends being transported into their underground palaces.

Art finally loses, because the men of the _sidh_ (like invisible spirits) began to steal the pieces with which he and the woman play; and, as a result, Bécuma put on him this taboo:--'Thou shalt not eat food in Ireland until thou bring with thee Delbchaem, the daughter of Morgan.' 'Where is she?' asked Art.

Borlase, 'it was by passing under the waters of a well that the _Sidh_, that is, the abode of the spirits called _Sidhe_, in the tumulus or natural hill, as the case might be, was reached.'[517] And it is evident from this that the well-spirits were even identified in Ireland with the Tuatha De Danann or Fairy-Folk.