Jawnomicon

Amadan

Also called Amadan Mor.

The Amadan is the fool of the Irish fairy host, whose touch is held to bring incurable paralysis, deformity, or death, unlike the human village fool it is sometimes confused with.

At a glance

Tradition
Irish folklore
Region
Ireland (place of origin)

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Traits

Read from the figure's description, which a model wrote. Open "why" for the sentence a trait came from.

Behaviour

  • Docile relative masks predatory divergence
    why

    The overlap in name with the ordinary human village fool has also produced some confusion in casual retellings, and care is needed to keep the two distinct, since only the fairy Amadan carries the tradition of a dangerous touch.

Curses

  • Death-like paralytic induction
    why

    What the Amadan does is touch, and the touch is described as producing lasting harm: paralysis, physical deformity, palsy, or outright death, with no cure available through ordinary means.

Roles

Judged from the works' own entries, not from the description. Carries: the figure holds the role. Meets: the role is in its stories, held by something it meets.