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(Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders
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kelpie
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n. (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders [syn: kelpy ] an Australian sheepdog with pointed ears
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In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game , the kelpie is a type of plant creature.
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n. 1 (context Celtic folklore English) A malevolent shapeshifter spirit, most often in the form of a horse, believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland. 2 An Australian breed of sheepdog.
Usage examples of kelpie.
I do your errand, for you are like two kelpies from the river, and will have ague in your bones in another hour.
She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs, concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery.
When I desired any detail of savage custom, or of superstitious belief, I cast back in the story of my fathers, and fished for what I wanted with some trait of equal barbarism: Michael Scott, Lord Derwentwater's head, the second-sight, the Water Kelpie, - each of these I have found to be a killing bait.