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Ollipeist / Ollipheist / Ollepheist
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Region: Ireland
Time Period: Unknown
References in Literature: None
Sources: Giants, Monsters, and Dragons pg 277, Polenth

  • Water Dragon that fled from St. Patrick.
  • On his way to the sea, he cut the Shannon Valley.
  • In Gaelic: Oll=Great and Peist=fabulous beast
When it heard that St. Patrick was coming to kill it, Olliepeist ate the drunken piper, but St. Patrick kept on piping and it enraged the dragon so much that he spit him back up. St. Patrick hadn't even noticed his surroundings and kept on piping and journeying. Now that's pretty drunk.

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