sowlth

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sowlth (plural sowlths)

  1. (folklore) A kind of spirit in Irish folklore.
    • 2013, Norman A. Jeffares, W. B. Yeats:
      All Mr. Yeats's grotesque machinery of sowlths and tevishes and sheogues leaves us without a shudder; his fantasies are stage-properties of the most unillusive kind.