The name given by the Gauls to those demons that produce nightmares.
“Dæmones quos ‘dusiosʹ Galli nuncupant.”—
St. Augustine: De Civitate Dei, chap. xxiii.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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