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| | Tuatha de Dannan |
 | | The Tuatha de Danann were accomplished masters of magic, and wizardry, very learned in the art of altering their forms, their appearance and size. |
 | | The later writers often confused the Tuatha de Danann with the Fomorians and the Firbolgs, and in post-mediaeval literature they are represented as having both favorable and divine, and demonic groups among them; and as such, were associated with the dead and spirits of the dead. |
 | | It is clear and indisputable that legends of the Tuatha de Danann were the inspiration for the romantic tales of heroic Fairy Princes and Princesses, the Athurian legends, of Camelot, Merlin, Avalon, Morgan Le Fay, and the airy, tenuous, diminutive Fairies portrayed in stories primarily for children. |
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