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Recent Examples of kelpie
The gulf features in Scottish mythology as the Goddess of Winter, Cailleach (creator, weather deity), a powerful weather kelpie who washes her plait in the waters there, which marks the moment when autumn turns into winter.
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Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 15 Nov. 2024
In Scottish folklore, the kelpie is a shape-shifting creature that lives underwater and can easily devour humans.
—Catherine Garcia, theweek, 31 Oct. 2024
Rusty Rusty is a red kelpie who is tight with Bluey’s friend Indy and also loves to play army.
—Kara Nesvig, Parents, 11 Sep. 2024
Although many folklorists and historians believe this story belongs to the older tradition of kelpie and water horse legends, accounts of Loch Ness’s cryptid continued to pop up in history, with various sightings being reported over the centuries.
—Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
Untangling Scotland’s Century-Old Fossil Fish Mystery When was the First Sighting of the Loch Ness Monster?
Falkirk Scotland: The Kelpies are 30-meter-high (98 ft) horse-head sculptures depicting kelpies (shape-shifting water spirits).
—Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
Even Paddy’s kelpie was a troublemaker.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2023
In various 1,500-year-old texts, sea serpents, water horses, and water kelpie were all observed in Scotland’s waterways.
—Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2022
Three times, the team gave the Australian kelpie the command to round up the flock of 46 sheep.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2012
Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 15 Nov. 2024
In Scottish folklore, the kelpie is a shape-shifting creature that lives underwater and can easily devour humans.
—Catherine Garcia, theweek, 31 Oct. 2024
Rusty Rusty is a red kelpie who is tight with Bluey’s friend Indy and also loves to play army.
—Kara Nesvig, Parents, 11 Sep. 2024
Although many folklorists and historians believe this story belongs to the older tradition of kelpie and water horse legends, accounts of Loch Ness’s cryptid continued to pop up in history, with various sightings being reported over the centuries.
—Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
Untangling Scotland’s Century-Old Fossil Fish Mystery When was the First Sighting of the Loch Ness Monster?
Falkirk Scotland: The Kelpies are 30-meter-high (98 ft) horse-head sculptures depicting kelpies (shape-shifting water spirits).
—Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
Even Paddy’s kelpie was a troublemaker.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2023
In various 1,500-year-old texts, sea serpents, water horses, and water kelpie were all observed in Scotland’s waterways.
—Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2022
Three times, the team gave the Australian kelpie the command to round up the flock of 46 sheep.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2012
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kelpie
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Many people believed that faeries were capable of all sorts of wicked tricks: Stealing babies or children and replacing them with changelings, making devilish bargains, trapping people in the Otherworld for eternity.Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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The story of the changeling that Alice A referenced earlier in the series focused on a family putting a baby into a fire to bring their mother back.Erin Qualey, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2024
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Across spending categories, ghouls and goblins will spend the most holiday funds on candy, with total spending expected to reach $3.5 billion.Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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Spooktacular Hot Air Balloon Festival More than 20 frightfully fun hot air balloons will serve as trick-or-treat stations for little ghouls and goblins.Jessica Boehm, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024
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The Unseelie Court is the bastion of malevolent faeries who harm humans for their amusement or to exact revenge.Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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That’s in addition to the strange creatures that roam the countryside such as faeries and dragon.Rob Wieland, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
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Even with those issues, Rock still managed to sell the first main sketch of the night, about a Christmas mall elf giving parents the uncomfortable choice between a white Santa (James Austin Johnson) and a Black Santa (Devon Walker) for their kids.Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2024
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Although the elves will be on display 24 hours a day, they will only be animated at the following times: 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and 4-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday-Sunday.Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 15 Dec. 2024
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American Indians believed in supernatural beings — forest dwellers — who lived in caves, not unlike the Irish leprechauns.Diane Owens Prettyman, Austin American-Statesman, 11 Mar. 2024
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Party like a leprechaun, see a 90s’ cult classic in theaters again, gain a deeper understanding of sports, go ice skating, attend a country music queen’s concert, discuss the cases of the World’s Greatest Literary Detective, or honor our nation’s heroes.Baltimore Sun staff, Baltimore Sun, 7 Nov. 2024
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The 30-year-old hasn’t directly spoken about coming out, but has posted several photos showing off their new look, recently chopping off their previously shoulder length hair into a pixie cut.Vivian Kwarm, New York Daily News, 6 Dec. 2024
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Fellow singer Tyla dug deeper into the actress’ past and donned her own pixie cut to become Berry as Sharon Stone from 1994’s The Flintstones.Shania Russell, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
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Offbeat sports gifts: Interest in The Masters annual garden gnome continues to grow — the only item in the official Masters gift shop to carry a purchase limit.Brooks Peck, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
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The hapless Wallace and his wily hound Gromit cross paths with an errant gnome in Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2024
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Microsoft’s Tay in 2016 is a prime example of chatbot training gone awry — within 24 hours of its launch, internet trolls manipulated Tay into spouting offensive language.Anisha Sircar, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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There are dragons and trolls in Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, along with important swords and a race of long-lived elflike people called the Sithi, but Williams subverts the usual tropes.Sarah Jones, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Kelpie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kelpie. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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