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 erinys
 erinyes
-	These female-seeming devils named after the Furies of mythology
-	attack hand to hand and poison their unwary victims as well.
+	Holy and pure, from Zeus Khthonios born
+	and Persephone, whom lovely locks adorn:
+	Whose piercing sight, with vision unconfin'd,
+	surveys the deeds of all the impious kind:
+	On Fate attendant, punishing the race
+	(with wrath severe) of deeds unjust and base.
+	Dark-colour'd queens, whose glittering eyes are bright
+	with dreadful, radiant, life-destroying, light:
+	Eternal rulers, terrible and strong,
+	to whom revenge, and tortures dire belong.
+		[ LXIX. To the Furies, The Orphic Hymns,
+		  translated by Thomas Taylor ]
 ettin
 	The two-headed giant, or ettin, is a vicious and unpredictable
 	hunter that stalks by night and eats any meat it can catch.