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(plur PERIS) Peris are delicate, gentle, fairy-like beings of Eastern mythology, begotten by fallen spirits They direct with a wand the pure in mind the way to heaven These lovely creatures, according to the Koran, are under the sovereignty of Eblis; and Mahomet was sent for their conversion, as well as for that of man “Like peris' wands, when pointing out the road For some pure spirit to the blest abode ” Thomas Moore Lalla Rookh, pt i Pericles Prince of Tyre (Shakespeare) The story is from the Gesta Romanorum, where Pericles, is called “Apollonius, King of Tyre ” The story is also related by Gower in his Confessio Amantis (bk viii )
(Persian folklore) a supernatural being descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until penance is done