peris

As I have never seen any genii, demons, peris, or hobgoblins, whether beneficent or mischievous, I cannot speak of them from knowledge.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The reader will hardly be the wiser for being told that the Persians had their peris, the

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

For if no one has seen farfadets, or lemures, or dives, or peris, or demons, or cacodemons, the predictions of astrologers have often been found true.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

It is not easy to know precisely whether the peris of the Persians were invented before the demons of the

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The Persians had their peris and dives; the Greeks, their demons and cacodæmons; the

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Nobody talked of anything but dervishes and vizirs, rocs and peris.

Still Separate & Unequal Fredrickson, George M. 2005

They said they were peris, and that their king had blinded them in his anger and had left them in the well alone.

The Brown Fairy Book 2003

And up an avenue of giant place trees the peris led him, dumb with amazement.

The Brown Fairy Book 2003

‘In the end the two peris. took me to the girl’s house.

The Brown Fairy Book 2003

Then I came out of my hiding, took a little of her dung and conveyed it to the peris.

The Brown Fairy Book 2003