water-kelpie

Pop this water-kelpie in the bath-tub and then bed her with two hot bricks, a dram and a basin of broth.

My Bones Will Keep Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1977

"A water-kelpie," murmured another of the Captain's gigs, a Scotchman.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832 Various

England we find her congener in the water-kelpie, who lurks in pools lying in wait for victims.

Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine Lewis Spence 1914

One day, the water-kelpie appeared to him in the form of an old man.

Fairy Book Sophie May 1869

Soon the water-kelpie came to him in the form of a horse; and ran before him, neighing fiercely, and breathing fire from his mouth.

Fairy Book Sophie May 1869

One day, as she was sitting by the shore of the lake, a water-kelpie saw her weeping, and came to her in the form of a white-haired old man, saying, --

Fairy Book Sophie May 1869

And rivers are just in this divided, also, like wicked and good men: the good rivers have serviceable deep places all along their banks, that ships can sail in; but the wicked rivers go scoopingly irregularly under their banks until they get full of strangling eddies, which no boat can row over without being twisted against the rocks; and pools like wells, which no one can get out of but the water-kelpie that lives at the bottom; -- but, wicked or good, the rivers all agree in having two kinds of sides.

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

‘A water-kelpie he called you, and a waterkelpie ye are!

My Bones Will Keep Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1977