nemedhians

Updated: June 27, 2025

Presuming, however, that corpse-candles and all sorts of family ghosts are analogous, I should say that the former are spirits which have attached themselves to certain localities, either owing to some great crime or crimes having been committed there in the past, or because at some still more remote period the inhabitants of those parts the Milesians and Nemedhians, the early ancestors of the Irish, dabbled in sorcery.

Elliott O'Donnell - Byways of Ghost-Land