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Peri

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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In the Eastern mythology a fairy being of surpassing beauty, begotten of fallen spirits, and excluded from Paradise, but represented as leading a life of pleasure and endowed with immortality; there were male Peris as well as female, and they were intermediate between angels and demons.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Peri'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​p/peri.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
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