water-demon

According to legend, the stone is cursed and guarded by a malevolent water-demon, or kelpie-type entity, who protects it savagely.

the black dog and the scottish play, indeed intertribal 2010

According to legend, the stone is cursed and guarded by a malevolent water-demon, or kelpie-type entity, who protects it savagely.

intertribal: the black dog and the scottish play, indeed intertribal 2010

A terrible, delicious woman! begotten on a water-demon, people say.

Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship James Branch Cabell 1918

Manuel's nature is tinctured with the cool unhumanness of his father the water-demon: rather, these old poets of Poictesme would seem, whether of intention or no, to have dealt with their national hero as a person, howsoever admirable in many of his exploits, whom they have never been able altogether to love, or entirely to sympathize with, or to view quite without distrust.

Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918

The waters inland were not troubled with the water-demon so far as they knew.

Days of the Discoverers L. Lamprey 1910

Presently the water-demon came up, and asked him jestingly whether he had burnt himself, or whether he had been stung by a gadfly, that he ran away like that, instead of helping him to carry the heavy money-bags.

The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country 1878

The water-demon begs the hero to desist, and the latter tricks the demon out of his treasures.

The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country 1878

Sarvik seems to have belonged to the same family as the water-demon who was tricked by the

The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country 1878

So the Alevide began to drive piles into the bed of the river at a place called Mustapall, to fasten his measuring lines to, when the wretched old water-demon [52] raised his head from the river, and asked what he was doing.

The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country 1878

When water-demon Shizuku comes to stay with Mild-Mannered Protagonist,

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