Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In Greek myth, primitive workers in metal and magicians who were supposed to have been the first inhabitants of Crete and Rhodes.

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  • Iceland, reports for a certainty, that almost in every family they have yet some such familiar spirits; and Felix Malleolus, in his book de crudel.daemon. affirms as much, that these trolli or telchines are very common in Norway, and

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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