dracs

One of the few bands of survivors is the Colony, a FEMA-established island of safety bunkered behind massive banks of lights that repel the "virals," or "dracs" - but a small group realizes that the aging technological defenses will soon fail.

Publishers Weekly - Children's Books News 2010

These venerable water-spirits, these _dracs, _ are interesting beasts who went through many metamorphoses ere attaining their present shape.

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

Sometimes these dracs will float like golden cups along a stream to entice bathers, but when the bather attempts to catch at them, the drac draws him under water.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853