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Kelpie

noun
(pl. kelpies)
1.
(Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders.  Synonym: kelpy.
2.
An Australian sheepdog with pointed ears.





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"Kelpie" Quotes from Famous Books



... Because I jest! Nay, hear me to the end! Think, Dagny, what it is to sit by the window in the eventide and hear the kelpie[1] wailing in the boat-house; to sit waiting and listening for the dead men's ride to Valhal; for their way lies past us here in the north. They are the brave men that fell in fight, the strong women that did not drag out their lives tamely, like thee and me; they sweep through the storm-night on ...
— The Vikings of Helgeland - The Prose Dramas Of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. III. • Henrik Ibsen


Words linked to "Kelpie" :   sheep dog, Scotland, evil spirit, sheepdog, shepherd dog, folklore, kelpy


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