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Definition of Rusalkas
1. rusalka [n] - See also: rusalka
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rusalkas
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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