Talk:Cù-sìth

Latest comment: 10 years ago by Ojh2 in topic Etymology

Fife, Dog People, etc.

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I've removed this, tagged as unsourced since Jan 2008:

"The forest dwelling tribes of the Fife and the east coast were known as Cu Sìth during Roman times, for their ability to launch ambush attacks then disappear into the forests like 'Fairy Hounds'. The south of Fife has long been associated with societies of 'dog people'. The name of the town of Kincardine is derived from the Pictish for 'woodland of the dogs'. Nearby Culross mean 'headland of the dogs'.

I'm truly curious - well, sort of... - as to what the Roman-period source for the "forest dwelling" "Cu Sìth" might be! Enaidmawr (talk) 23:58, 9 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

hound of baskerville

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just might want to mention somewere in the article that this is the same animal that is used in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Hound of Baskerville...(ANOMALY-117 (talk) 14:47, 4 November 2010 (UTC))Reply

I don't think so. The Black dog (ghost) yes, but not the HOTB, please, that's a *literary* fictional character. Akerbeltz (talk) 15:22, 4 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

Etymology

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I am removing the Etymology section, which states very unequivocally that the "sìth" in "cù sìth" has no etymological relation to the mound/barrow meaning of "sídhe". Not only is no source given, it is in direct contradiction with the etymology given on the main Aos Sí article. Ojh2 (talk) 22:33, 27 December 2013 (UTC)Reply