The Cú Síth – The Fairy Hound of the Hollow Hills

“When the night stills and the wind holds its breath—listen for my step upon the heather.”

In the misted reaches of Ireland’s wild hills, where the wind hums low and the stars seem near enough to touch, an ancient presence is said to roam — the Cú Síth, the Fairy Hound of the Otherworld.

Neither beast nor ghost, it moves like breath through twilight, its fur green as moss in moonlight and its eyes burning softly like embers of an unseen fire.

The Cú Síth walks the liminal paths between life and death, guarding the hidden halls of the sídhe — the hollow hills where the Fair Folk dwell.

The Hound of the Hills

The old stories tell that when death or passage drew near, the Cú Síth would rise from the mounds to walk the mortal world.

It hunted not for flesh, but for souls whose time had come, guiding them — gently for the peaceful, fiercely for the defiant — into the realm beyond.

Its three cries were said to echo across moor and mountain:

the first a warning, the second a calling, the third a claiming.

Few dared to wait for the third.

Yet not all who heard its voice trembled. For those of the old ways, the hound’s cry was a sign of completion, the moment when the soul’s long work was done.

Guardian of the Sídhe

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