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A deity of the Patagonians, introduced by Shakespeare into his Tempest.
“His art is of such power,
It would control my dam’s god, Setebos,
And make a vassal of him.”
Tempest, i. 2.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.