| 单词 | water spirit |
| 例句 | Normal people didn’t talk to water spirits, only ngangas did—or witches. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, water spirits no doubt inhabited the place, as they did any body of water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Useless had learned how to be an nganga from the water spirit. He became a great chief, and his mother, who had been mistreated by everyone, was treated like a queen from then on.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Anya paused a decent distance from the tree, watchful for the water spirits. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Her hand landed on the linen as the rusalka’s hand did the same, and the water spirit’s cold fingers touched Anya’s as they both grasped the cloth. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I’d heard Nereids and other water spirits speak to me underwater before, but it never occurred to me Tyson was a son of Poseidon. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “You guys help Leo. I’ll hold off the water spirits as long as I can.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z That afternoon, Nhamo sacrificed her best calabash to the water spirits. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t eat the food. I didn’t!” she told the water spirits. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Months. She keeps raving about water spirits and a dead boatman and a baboon she thinks was human.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She is still a water spirit, and her father or uncle or spiritual father is still a water gnome. With ‘Rusalka,’ Will the Fourth Time Be the Charm for Mary Zimmerman? 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z There, it would have been greeted by local nature deities: earth gods built like sumo wrestlers, avid-eyed nymphs and crocodilian water spirits. Art Review: In ‘Lost Kingdoms,’ National Treasures From Asian Countries 2014-04-10T23:05:18Z Ms. Lee learned more about the myth of the Nokk, a mystical water spirit that takes on the form of a horse, and they turned it into a beautiful, eerie image in the movie. Jennifer Lee, Queen of the ‘Frozen’ Franchise 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Earth and water spirits who link the human and heavenly realms, they function as a supernatural security team, and approach their job with gusto. Art Review: ‘Golden Visions of Densatil’ Opens at Asia Society 2014-02-20T23:13:05Z It’s the old story: a water spirit lures a fisherman to his death in the waves. Celebrating an 18th-Century Composer, Carl Loewe 2012-02-24T21:05:38Z The ceremony connects the water spirits, recapturing journeys across oceans. DanceAfrica Turns Its (Virtual) Gaze to Haiti 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z She alludes to the horrors of the journey across the ocean by noting that “some jumped” into the embrace of the water spirit Mami Wata, who “maybe, just maybe … was their mother.” The Pillars of African American History: Ibi Zoboi’s Kwanzaa Picture Book 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z “They told me a water spirit lives there. It’s dark, it’s black. It can kill a water buffalo.” World’s largest freshwater fish draws attention to delicate ecosystem 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z A screen in one corner plays mermaid movies; mermaid mannequins are suspended from the ceiling and at the entrance is a large sculpture of the water spirit Porcelina, donated by Californian artist Jasmine Becket-Griffith. These 5 kid-friendly PNW destinations make learning fun 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z There are altars with food offerings, Buddha statues and the booth in front is kept empty every morning until 11 a.m., reserved for the water spirit, a figure from Thai religious traditions. How did a Thai restaurant chain become so beloved by immigrants from Mexico and Central America? 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z In countries such as Senegal, where the animals are revered as auspicious water spirits, poaching is rare. ‘A manatee is worth more alive’: the mission to save Africa’s sea mammals 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z Others label her a water spirit, an aquatic being who sinks ships, changes shape and spreads fertility like gossip. Africa celebrated black mermaids long before Disney and #NotMyAriel 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z She was a water spirit, and has been seen, half-raised out of the water, combing her hair. 50 & 100 years ago 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Scoring pidgin’s clipped, concise tone was “difficult”, she said, but the final result is a West African-flavoured twist centred on the water spirits that lure men or sailors to their deaths in countless mythologies. performer brings voice of Africa's pidgin to new opera 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Angkor Wat and its nearby temples and shrines were constructed from the ninth to the 15th centuries and include countless stone depictions of topless “apsara” — female cloud and water spirits — adorning stone walls. Nude tourists at Southeast Asia’s sacred sites spark exhibitionism fad worries 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z And the night before, the designer of a GM Riviera concept car talked of drawing inspiration from water spirits and the color of Chinese jade. World’s carmakers woo Chinese consumers 2013-04-23T00:38:14Z And you can almost fancy then that over, The moonlit mirror of the tranquil tide, You see the water spirits rise and hover, And on the sheen in laughing lightness glide. Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z This belief lingered for a long time amid the German forests, as also the superstition about water spirits. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z This made the water spirit, down under the waves, laugh. The Cricket's Friends Tales Told by the Cricket, Teapot, and Saucepan 2011-08-23T02:00:33.033Z No one pulls so good an oar, has better knowledge of wind and weather and of the sea's peculiarities; she is a water spirit with her meaningless frog's eyes. Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:10.707Z Afterwards the brothers dug a deep well, and on the pretence of propitiating the water spirit induced their wives to stand round the well with offerings of rice, &c., in their hands. Santal Folk Tales 2011-01-26T03:00:24.700Z Occultists, from Paracelsus to Elephas Levi, divide the nature spirits into gnomes, sylphs, salamanders, undines; or earth, air, fire, and water spirits. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry It was not that any spectral delusion disturbed the scene of festivity; for the castle, as we well know, had been secured against the mischief of the water spirits. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 The children recognized their enemy, the water spirit. The Cricket's Friends Tales Told by the Cricket, Teapot, and Saucepan 2011-08-23T02:00:33.033Z The boys were running along, thinking of how they never again would be afraid of the water spirit, when, they all stopped short. Indian Child Life I sould tell whether it was ane hill spirit, ane kirk spirit, or ane water spirit that so troubles him.” Witch Stories He believe that fiery totem speak—that fiery totem call water spirits to torture. The Fiery Totem A Tale of Adventure in the Canadian North-West This practice is undoubtedly a relic of pagan ages when the sea-depths were regarded as the dominion of dread water spirits, who keenly watched those who intruded in their realms. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland It now came their turn, and they advanced, the water spirit smiling maliciously all the time. The Cricket's Friends Tales Told by the Cricket, Teapot, and Saucepan 2011-08-23T02:00:33.033Z So he dressed up to look like the Indians' pictures of a terrible water spirit from the Rio Grande river, and ran after the boys. Indian Child Life Still, in spite of its beauty, it is dangerous to go near it, for in its depths dwell some Undines, or water spirits, who lure all passers-by to their deaths.’ The Olive Fairy Book And, when the sun came up from his teepee of fire, Flying Cloud and the best warriors of the Dacotahs had been carried away by the water spirits and were never seen again. The Fiery Totem A Tale of Adventure in the Canadian North-West Her eyes were so blue and clear, her mouth was so delicate and red, she looked like a little water spirit, as beautiful as such a spirit can be imagined. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Perhaps they might have received some prize, as a token of royal favor, had not the water spirit's snake darted forward, hissing spitefully, and twined about them. The Cricket's Friends Tales Told by the Cricket, Teapot, and Saucepan 2011-08-23T02:00:33.033Z Our immediate author is James Grimm, speaking in his German Mythology of the water spirit. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 It "lives in the water or the sky" like its homologue in the Old World, and it is "a water spirit". The Evolution of the Dragon Then shall the power of the water spirits be broken. The Fiery Totem A Tale of Adventure in the Canadian North-West Another class of marine or water spirits, called Nebunabaigs, occupy the rivers and lakes. The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians They are the gifts of the Wind Sisters,' said a water spirit; then sank in a circle of foam bubbles. The Cricket's Friends Tales Told by the Cricket, Teapot, and Saucepan 2011-08-23T02:00:33.033Z The latter covered the sloping bank, standing like statues, watching for the water spirit whom they had been told was coming down the river. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World As a rule the horned serpent is a water spirit and an enemy of the thunder bird. The Evolution of the Dragon Lately he made an offering to the water spirits, whose wrath he apprehended to be the cause of her malady. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 2 But the knight saw in the necklace only another sign of Undine's strange dealings with the water spirits. Undine How come you to be such a wood and water spirit? you must live out of doors. Queechy, Volume I And thus it came to pass that most water spirits were deemed to be dowered with prophetic gifts. Nature Mysticism All manufactories that require raging and continuous flame; ships to sail, and conquer water spirits; electrical and etherial forces that move in the air currents. Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul That was the name of the water spirit they believed in. King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut He sprang up, shouting to the water spirits to claim no kinship with him, but to come and learn from his sword-thrusts how much he hated them. Undine Perhaps the most surprising feature of the educational advancement of these water spirits is their knowledge of astronomy. Life in a Thousand Worlds Lately he made an offering to the water spirits whose wrath he apprehended to be the cause of her malady. The Journey to the Polar Sea Most of them believed in the existence of "fairies",—woodland, earth, mountain, or water spirits—whom they declared they could see from time to time in human semblance. Pioneers in Canada Shellycoat must not be confounded with Kelpy, a water spirit also, but of a much more powerful and malignant nature. Minstrelsy of the Scottish border, Volume 1 There was Vernal Fall, gentle in majesty; and Nevada, a wild and untamed water spirit; and retrospect glimpses of the Yosemite Falls. The Port of Adventure How came you to be such a wood and water spirit? you must live out of doors. Queechy Here, where the presence of Deity made the forest ring, and the ground tremble, the Indians offered a living sacrifice once a year, to be conveyed by the water spirit to the unknown gulf. The Englishwoman in America The water spirits shrank to their home, while we returned to the clouds. Dahcotah Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling And yet at such a time one breathes the rain and again exhales it, and become as it were oneself a water spirit, assuming an aqueous fishlike nature into one's inner fibres. Castle Richmond Harpstenah, as she tried to sleep, fancied she heard the wild laugh of the water spirits. Dahcotah Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling |
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