Crom Dubh

Crom Dubh (Old Irish: [krom duβ], Scottish Gaelic: [kʰɾɔum t̪uh]; meaning "black crooked [one]"; also Crum Dubh, Dark Crom) is a mythological and folkloric figure of Ireland, based on the god Crom Cruach, mentioned in the 12th-century dinnseanchas of Magh Slécht.[1]

  1. ^ Nutt, The Celtic Doctrine of Re-Birth (1897), p. 149.