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January 27, 2010 by Grant Barrett

The Devils and his imps

Today’s list of the day is made of names for the Devil and his minions, transcribed by user vanishedone from Charles P.G. Scott’s “The Devil and His Imps: An Etymological Inquisition” in Transactions of the American Philological Association (1869-1896), Vol. 26, (1895), pp. 79-146. It includes words such as pixie, brownie, spriggan, thurse, pooka, and hobthrush.

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