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 DusDust. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Du’siens.
 
The name given by the Gauls to those demons that produce nightmares.   1
       
“Dæmones quos ‘dusios’ Galli nuncupant.”—
       
St. Augustine: De Civitate Dei, chap. xxiii.
 


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