Sidhe pronounced 'shee' are the faery people in Ireland. A short version of Daoine Sidhe, the People of the Hills. Sometimes (most inaccurately) confused with elves. Usually considered to be the Tuatha de Danaan, the original children of the goddess Danu, one of the mother-goddesses of Ireland; or descendants of those children. Some legends identify them with weak minded fallen angels, too good to be damned, but too fallible for heaven. They are deathless except by violence, and are expert in some forms or wizardry, espicially music, shapechange, illusion, and the minipulation of time. They are always referred by the Irish by the euphemisitc names like "the Good Folk," "the good people of the Parish," "the Gentry," or other nicknames meant to avoid offending them by using their real names directly.