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Du Potet

One of the original founders of spiritualism in Dupuis France, and one of the first experimentalists in tableturning, either in that country or elsewhere. (See France). Du-Sith (Black Elf.): A little man, believed to be of fairy origin, who killed Sir Lachlan Mor M'Clean at the battle of Trai-Gruinard, in Islay, Scotland, in the year 1598. The story runs that this little man offered his services to Sir James Macdonald, the opponent of Sir Lachlan; and that the latter's death was caused by an arrow which struck him on the head, and was afterwards found to be an Elf-bolt. In reply to a question of Macdonald's the little man replied: "I am called Du-sith, and you were better to have me with you than against you."

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