Talk:Amadan Dubh

Not sure is real

I am not sure this is an actual Irish folklore figure. While I accept the name is Irish (Amadán Dubh - Black/Dark Fool), the character does not seem to have any real history to Irish folklore or mythology. The closest I can find is from Legends of Saints & Sinners, by Douglas Hyde where he argues:

"This word amait, though lost in folk-speech, and never now used in the sense of witch, has nevertheless perpetuated itself in an extraordinary tradition in parts of Connacht. The appellation for the Fairy Palace, where the Good People or Tuatha De Danann dwell, is bruidhean (pronounced Breean with the b broad), and there is a belief that there is a denizen of the bruidhean called "amadán na bruidhne," which seems to mean the "fool of the palace" whose lightest touch is death. From the other creatures of the bruidhean one may escape scatheless, but never from the "amadán." This "amadán" I take to be a folk perversion or a diminutive of amait, and to have nothing at all to say to the word "amadán," "a fool."" (See Here)

Also in The Lost Pibroch And other Sheiling Stories by Neil Munro in the story of The Shudderman Soldier where amadan is mentioned but not as a dark fairy but rather as a blind fool (see Here). If there is evidence on the contrary then please by all means bring it here for all to see but from what I see is that anything in relation to Amadan Dubh seems to emanate from recent internet sites or modern publications with similar texts — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.11.114.141 (talk) 18:40, 1 May 2018 (UTC)