knooks

Now knooks are the especial guardians of birds, and love them dearly.

American Fairy Tales 1887

The knooks have more wonderful powers than any other immortal folk -- except, perhaps, the fairies and ryls.

American Fairy Tales 1887

It was well known that no harm can come to Santa Claus while he is in the Laughing Valley, for the fairies, and ryls, and knooks all protect him.

A Kidnapped Santa Claus 1887

So he slid back one of the doors of the case, gave the little chirruping whistle of the knooks that all birds know well, and called:

American Fairy Tales 1887

So the fairies, and knooks, and pixies, and ryls all escorted the good man to his castle, and there left him to talk over the events of the night with his little assistants.

A Kidnapped Santa Claus 1887

His workmen, selected from the ryls, knooks, pixies and fairies, live with him, and every one is as busy as can be from one year's end to another.

A Kidnapped Santa Claus 1887

Nymphs there were in Lurla, as well, and crooked knooks, it was said; yet for many years past no person could boast the favor of meeting any one of the fairy creatures face to face.

The Enchanted Island of Yew 1887

So people knew fairies in those days, my dear, and loved them, together with all the ryls and knooks and pixies and nymphs and other beings that belong to the hordes of immortals.

The Enchanted Island of Yew 1887

That night the ryls and knooks and other invisible friends of Prince

The Enchanted Island of Yew 1887

There were numberless knooks from the forest, as rough and crooked in appearance as the gnarled branches of the trees they ministered to.

A Kidnapped Santa Claus 1887