Swiney Tod, ye Daimon Barbar!

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  • 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
  • barba (Latin): beard