Brewer's: Ellyllon

The souls of the ancient Druids, which, being too good for hell, and not good enough for heaven, are permitted to wander upon earth till the judgment day, when they will be admitted to a higher state of being (Welsh mythology.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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