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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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What do the Krampus, a horde of undead elves, bloodthirsty changelings, and William Shatner have in common?Huntley Woods, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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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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So as ghosts and goblins roam the streets this Halloween season, remember that market fears, like shadows in the night, are often more frightening in our imagination than in reality.Robert Daugherty, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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The event, at the Denver Savoy, will also feature a custom mini-labyrinth and a goblin band in addition to The Whimsy of Things.John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 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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Arrietty Next in is Arrietty, who does elf drag by whitening the triangle between her eyebrows to the extreme.Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
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The third elf does the same, taking half of 8—4—and adding 3.Erik Kain, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
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The leprechaun suit stayed because that’s how fandom functions.Pete Sampson, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025
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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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At this year’s Golden Globes, Emma Stone—no stranger to a hair transformation—debuted a chocolate brown pixie cut.Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2025
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Kaz is entering the villa ready for a fresh start—her fresh blonde pixie included.Meg Walters, Glamour, 9 Jan. 2025
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The majority of the antique gnomes, many imported from Germany, are found in Fairyland Caverns, nestled into fairy tale scenes.Su-Jit Lin, Southern Living, 31 Dec. 2024
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Sight gags baked into the production design (the books the Gromit reads or the signs that populate the sets) and gnome puns aplenty make for a ride in which every frame packs a dense layer of comedy, at times conspicuous, others not so much.Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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One of those calls saw right-wing troll Charles Johnson outright accuse Dittmann of being Musk.Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2025
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Copyright trolls try to benefit from this, getting content removed that otherwise would remain on the platform and sometimes attempting to push users to submit unnecessary payments.Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2024
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“Kelpie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kelpie. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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