sea-sprite

But I — after this I should only be like some sea-sprite hanging on to the barque you are striving to sail forward in, and, hampering its progress.

Rosmersholm 2008

But I — after this I should only be like some sea-sprite hanging on to the barque you are striving to sail forward in, and, hampering its progress.

Rosmersholm 2008

But then, in addition, natural terror creates a whole host of wicked demons, who draw people with an irresistible power, the ghosts of drowned men, who have not had Christian burial, mountain ogres, the sea-sprite, who rows in a half boat, and shrieks horribly on the fjords on winter nights.

The Visionary Pictures From Nordland Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie 1870

I thought of the sea-sprite, who in Vaagen's church had enticed the minister's daughter to go with him, and whose instinct had driven him out of church during the blessing, whereas I was condemned to stand.

The Visionary Pictures From Nordland Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie 1870

"She came drifting in with the waves like a white sea-sprite, laughing at me, and I plunged into the breakers again to join her.

In Search of the Unknown 1899