P



P ( pay ) - v páigh.

Pádraig - Welsh evangelist.

páigh - beech, fiodh for letter P, associated with, among other things, potency, thanksgiving.

Partholón - v Lebor Gabála.

péist - 1) modern: worm, vermin; 2) ársa: monster, often but not always in the form of an eel (not a snake).

píb uilleann - v bolg is buinní.

piseog - witch (in the general sense, but in tradition and association suitable to include followers of Wicca).

piseogacht - general earth (not hermetic) pagan magic, witchcraft (cf asarlaíocht).

poc - 1) fairy stroke, sudden seizure, faint; 2) sudden disquieting intuition (cf síúlacht, túras); 3) buck (deer, goat. 7rl).

pocmhothú - sudden non-premeditated athmhothú (qv).

púca - neach Sídhe of wildwood (the horse-creature is likely a Norse borrowing/extension).

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