After Aobh's death, Bodb Derg gave Lir his second daughter Aoife in marriage. The union produced no children, and Aoife's growing jealousy of her stepchildren's bond with their father drove her to transform them into swans.
When Bodb Dearg discovered that his foster-daughter Aoife had cursed the children of Lír into swans, he struck her with a druidic wand and transformed her into a demon of the air, condemned to wander the winds forever.
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