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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
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1747, Scottish, of unknown origin, perhaps related to Gaelic colpach "heifer, steer, colt;" colpa "cow, horse." The Lowland name of a demon in the shape of a horse that was reputed to haunt lakes and rivers and to delight in causing drownings. But unlike ...
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Kelpie , or water kelpie , is the Scots name given to a shape-shifting water spirit inhabiting the lochs and pools of Scotland. It has usually been described as appearing as a horse , but is able to adopt human form. Some accounts state that the kelpie ...
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.