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sea fairy en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A type of fairy, typically female and beautiful, that inhabits the oceans, such as an undine or siren.
    • In the island of Lewis, librations [sic] were offered, to "Shoney," a sea fairy, in order to bring seaweed, this being a folk-memory of an ancient sea god or goddess, to whom offerings of ale were made by the Vikings at Halloween. 1913 December 20, The Fitzroy City Press, Melbourne, page 4, column 5:

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