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Rh rare and splendid: fairies, demons, goblins, and ghosts. A female fairy was a banshee, and there are now living people who believe they have heard the banshee's cry. There was some belief in a place of perpetual youth and everlasting peace. Some thought it deep in the earth; some put it far out in the ocean, calling it O'Brazil. In the era of the great discoveries, when geography was ill-understood, Brazil was the name given to part of the new world found in the west.