Definition of Rusalkas

1. Noun. (plural of rusalka) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rusalkas

1. rusalka [n] - See also: rusalka

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rusalkas

rurban
rurban fringe
ruricolist
ruricolists
ruridecanal
rurigenous
rurp
rurps
ruru
rurus
rus in urbe
rusa
rusa deer
rusakovite
rusalka
rusalkas (current term)
rusalki
rusalky
rusas
rusbank
rusbanks
ruscuses
ruse
ruses
rush
rush'd
rush(a)
rush-hour
rush along

Literary usage of Rusalkas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Songs of the Russian People: As Illustrative of Slavonic Mythology and by William Ralston Shedden Ralston (1872)
"After St. Peter's day, June 29, the rusalkas dance by night beneath the moon, ... Sometimes a man encounters rusalkas who begin to writhe and contort ..."

2. Studies in Russia by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1902)
"The rusalkas have great influence over the harvest, and in some parts of Russia, after Whitsuntide, a straw figure is dressed in woman's clothes to ..."

3. Studies in Russia by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1896)
"The rusalkas have great influence over the harvest, and in some parts of Russia, after Whitsuntide, a straw figure is dressed in woman's clothes to ..."

4. Credulities Past and Present: Including the Sea and Seamen, Miners, Amulets by William Jones (1898)
"The eggs are broken, and the spirits are poured over their graves, after which the relics are left to the rusalkas, these lines being sung : "Queen Rusalka, ..."

5. Ballads and Poems by Glasgow Ballad Club (1885)
""The rusalkas are female water-spirits. . . . They are generally represented under the form of beauteous maidens, with full and snow-white bosoms, ..."

6. Ballads and Poems by Glasgow ballad club (1885)
"Besides the full-grown rusalkas there are little ones, having the appearance of seven-year-old girls. These are supposed, by the Russian peasants, ..."

7. A Lost Epic: And Other Poems by William Canton (1887)
"Besides the full-grown rusalkas there are little ones, having the appearance of seven-year-old girls. These are supposed, by the Russian peasants, ..."

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