From FinnegansWiki
- Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street: a melodrama by Edgar Pitt about a London barber who murdered his customers
- swine: pigs
- Tod: (German) death
- daimon: (Greek) deity, divine being, guardian spirit; demon, evil spirit; spectre; fate; evil; death
- barbarous: barbarian; foreign; not Greek
