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IRISH FAR LIATH (GREY MAN)

The 'grey man' or far liath appears as a fog and covers land and sea with his mantle.

He obscures the rocks so that ships crash upon them and darkens the road so that travelers unwittingly stumble over steep cliffs to their deaths. Because of him, many a galleon was wrecked and many a mortal never returned home for dinner.

Variants: grey man (Irish).

The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over the harbor and city
on silent haunches and then
moves on.

Carl Sandburg, The Fog


 

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