Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Russian folk-lore, a water-nymph.
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- noun In
Slavic mythology , afemale water spirit that leadshandsome men to their deaths underwater.
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Examples
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To locate the reader in the story you cannot just start talking about rusalka and allow the reader to figure out slowly whether the real world changed only subtly to have a rusalka in it or a magical world changed only subtly to have medical students in it.
Fairyland Chapter Eight! yuki_onna 2009
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It's a rusalka Russian mermaid-siren things story, set in post-war St. Petersburg.
On y Va yuki_onna 2006
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This is a rusalka story, not a fairy tale retelling per se but something that, in the end, came out very personal and intimate and different than most of what I have written, short story-wise.
Things to Be Proud Of yuki_onna 2006
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Some were bleak, like the hunting down of a rusalka that murderously haunted Lake Ilmen.
Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999
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Certain of their people flitted through, El-ena, shrewish Marina, plump and placid Yuliana, Bishop Simeon grave behind his huge bush of beard-dead, today or years since, ghosts, she herself perhaps dead too but denied quietness, a rusalka creeping back to its river.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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After that, for a time during which time was not, she drifted like a rusalka beneath the water.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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After that, for a time during which time was not, she drifted like a rusalka beneath the water.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988
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Certain of their people flitted through, El-ena, shrewish Marina, plump and placid Yuliana, Bishop Simeon grave behind his huge bush of beard'dead, today THE BOAT OF A MILLION YEARS or years since, ghosts, she herself perhaps dead too but denied quietness, a rusalka creeping back to its river.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988
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Roamers, a rusalka spirit of the dead and a plague of illness are all caught up in vengeful
Thestar.com - Home Page Deirdre Baker 2010
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Eveshka, the former rusalka, is now married to Pyetr and living with him and his friend Sasha, the half-taught wizard, and she is in the grip of some dark magic.
Take Joy! 2009
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