Episode 60: The Sluagh

Legends of the Hidden Horde · Oct 8, 2026 · 14m

In episode 60 we stand on the west side of a house in the Hebrides, where the Atlantic has already taken the sun and the window is the only argument left. This is the Sluagh . The word is older than the monster. In Old Irish slúag means host, army, or crowd. In the Scottish Highlands and Islands it hardened into sluagh na marbh, the host of the dead. In Ireland the cousin-word is slua sí, the fairy host, a whirlwind of the Aos Sí that can lift a person and set them down somewhere they did not agree to go.

These are not the same telling, and they should not be nailed together to make a cleaner…