sìthich
** -ean, sm Fairy, elf. The sìthich is the most active sprite of Highland mythology. It is a dexterous child stealer and is particularly intrusive on women in travail. At births many covert and cunning ceremonies are still used to battle the fairies' power; otherwise the newborn infant would be taken off to fairyland and a withered brat laid in its stead. They are wantonly mischievous and have weapons peculiar to themselves, which operate no good to those at whom they are shot. A clergyman of the kirk, who wrote concerning fairyland about the end of the 17th century, says of these weapons that “they are solid earthy bodies, nothing of iron but much of stone, like to a yellow soft flint spur, shaped like a barbed arrowhead, but flung like a dart with great force” — **.
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