ryls

Mortals seldom know how greatly they are influenced by fairies, knooks and ryls, who often put thoughts into their heads that only the wise little immortals could have conceived.

American Fairy Tales 1887

The knooks have more wonderful powers than any other immortal folk -- except, perhaps, the fairies and ryls.

American Fairy Tales 1887

So the fairies, and knooks, and pixies, and ryls all escorted the good man to his castle, and there left him to talk over the events of the night with his little assistants.

A Kidnapped Santa Claus 1887

And there were dainty ryls from the fields, each one bearing the emblem of the flower or plant it guarded.

A Kidnapped Santa Claus 1887

His workmen, selected from the ryls, knooks, pixies and fairies, live with him, and every one is as busy as can be from one year's end to another.

A Kidnapped Santa Claus 1887

It was well known that no harm can come to Santa Claus while he is in the Laughing Valley, for the fairies, and ryls, and knooks all protect him.

A Kidnapped Santa Claus 1887

That night the ryls and knooks and other invisible friends of Prince

The Enchanted Island of Yew 1887

So people knew fairies in those days, my dear, and loved them, together with all the ryls and knooks and pixies and nymphs and other beings that belong to the hordes of immortals.

The Enchanted Island of Yew 1887