Peri (mythology)

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A peri was a kind of fairy in Persian mythology which started off evil before turning good. Recently regenerated, the temporarily deranged Sixth Doctor took this as sufficient to attempt to kill his companion, also named Peri. (TV: The Twin Dilemma) Myths of the peri were inspired by the Mal'akh. (PROSE: The Book of the War)

Behind the scenes

• Before strangling Peri in The Twin Dilemma, the newly-regenerated and temporarily-deranged Sixth Doctor quoted from the poem "Paradise and the Peri" by Thomas Moore.