Fear Doirche
Irish · numen · fenian cycle · Recorded classification
He has no name, only a description, and no motive the treatment supplies. That is worth a record rather than a footnote, because a corpus of figures should be able to say that the person who does the worst thing in a story is unnamed — which is a fact about the story and not a gap in the data. Type is 'numen' rather than 'mortal' because the sources do not make him a man, and vitalStatus is 'unknown' because he simply stops appearing.
Domains
- malign enchantment
Relations
- transformed: SadhbhReciprocal of the in-batch edge.Reference treatment of the Dark Man transforming Sadhbh into a deer. (secondary)
Sources
- Fear Doirche, the Dark Man, is the druid who transforms Sadhbh into a deer.: Reference treatment of Sadhbh and the Dark Man. (secondary)