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But I remember from my cubhood -- when folk still lived in Old Aferoch, though already then the sea brought worse and worse floods -- a female ychan of that town.

A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974

"You Dennitzans, human and zmay -- ychan -- you don't strike me as hesitant people," Flandry remarked.

A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974

He was short for an ychan, though when he was younger it had not been wise to fight him.

A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974

Thus Kossara didn't even mind that the servant who came to fetch her was hauntingly like and unlike an ychan.

A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974

They had hours to wait, safest here, before the ychan chiefs could be gathered together.

A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974

Each house was long and wide as an ychan family needed, timbers tarred black, pillars that upheld the porch carved and brightly painted with ancestral symbols, blue-begrown sod roof cable-anchored against hurricanes, a spacious and sturdy sight.

A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974

Hundreds of kilometers and a long lifetime from the Black Ocean, he remained an old-fashioned pagan ychan.

A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974

He's the hero of some funny ychan fairy tales, who went to live on Mesyatz.

A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974

She could never have opened thus to any human except Mihail, maybe not even to him; but over the years the ychan had heard confessions which she did not give her priest.

A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974

Ma ya auiallo xochinquauitl itlani nepapan quecholli ma ya in quecholli xicaquiya tlatoaya y toteuh, xicaquiya tlatoaya y quechol amach yeua tonicauh tlapitza amach ychan tlacaluaz, ouao.

Rig Veda Americanus Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans, With a Gloss in Nahuatl Various 1868