shian

plural shians · alternative sheean

1. artsA magical fairy mound.

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   He jumped into the Shian, and plunged at once into the whirling movements of its inhabitants. Donald was in great perplexity, for he feared to enter the Shian. All he could do therefore was to put his mouth to one of the crevices, and calling, as the custom was, three times on his brother, entreating him in the most moving terms, to come away and return home.

   1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 386