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Badb
[bov]
noun
Irish Mythology.
a spirit who, delighting in war, incited armies to fight and appeared to warriors about to be defeated.
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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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It is interesting to observe that this Irish war-goddess, the bodb or badb, considered of old to be one of the Tuatha De Danann, has survived to our own day in the fairy-lore of the chief Celtic countries.
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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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