water-sprites

He'd thought all the river-folk, selkies and undines and water-sprites, were already safely gone, warned by Shalkan and the others who carried his message.

Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

He'd thought all the river-folk, selkies and undines and water-sprites, were already safely gone, warned by Shalkan and the others who carried his message.

The Outstretched Shadow 2003

The birds told the helmsman, the wise Lapp, that the lad had made friends with the water-sprites beyond the snow mountains and would never return.

Classic Myths Mary Catherine Judd

"The water-sprites had rolled our stone out of its noose, and we had floated away."

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

Lady Engleton dwelt joyously on the image of Mrs. Walker, cavorting, garlanded, on a Greek slope, with the nymphs and water-sprites for familiar company.

The Daughters of Danaus Mona Caird

Germany, the quiet valleys, and the banks of the beautiful rivers, were the natural homes of the fairy-folk, the gnomes and the elves, the water-sprites and the sylphs.

Bertha Mary Hazelton Wade

Fairies, elves, water-sprites, and nisses or brownies, have constantly required mortal assistance in the nursing of fairy children.

Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series Frank Sidgwick

Just above this point we pass the swiftest rapids on the route, where the river widens, and each side of the bank is beautiful in its wooded picturesqueness, while the waters rush, in foaming, surging, tumbling confusion, over the rugged rocks, or dart between them like a merry band of water-sprites chasing each other in gleesome frolic.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various

Similar folk-tales are to be met with in other parts of the world, and the list of water-sprites and river-goddesses is almost endless.

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

Immediately after, a dead calm succeeded the light wind which had before rippled the distant waves, and we watched the boat, lying as if asleep and floating lazily on the red water against the blazing sky, -- or rather, itself like a cradle, so pavilioned was it with gorgeous cloud-curtains, and fit home for the two water-sprites lying in the slant sunbeams.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various