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Badb

American  
[bov] / bɒv /

noun

Irish Mythology.
  1. a spirit who, delighting in war, incited armies to fight and appeared to warriors about to be defeated.


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Badb catha n� feann�g; a badb catha, or royston-crow.’

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There arose a wild, impetuous, precipitate, mad, inexorable, furious, dark, lacerating, merciless, combative, contentious badb, which was shrieking and fluttering over their heads.

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Morrigu, 302-3, 305, 315: see Badb.

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In this case the Badb watches over Cormac as his doom comes.

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For nine months, the hacker who went by BadB lived openly in Moscow, managing websites for hackers who stole credit card numbers and then sold them online.

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