water-fairy

He relates the legend of the water-fairy, who with sweet voice and mien entices and seduces human beings.

The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

In the second act Undine confesses to her husband, that she is a water-fairy, one of those, whom men call "Undinas".

The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

In the course of his wanderings, Orlando (as well as sundry other characters in the poem) is favored by an apparition of Fata Morgana, the water-fairy, who vainly tries to lure him away from his allegiance to his lady-love by offering him untold treasures.

The Book of the Epic 1894

Now the frog was a water-fairy dwelling in a lake, into which the girl soon after was conveyed and compelled to become the fairy's midwife.

The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Edwin Sidney Hartland 1887

[Footnote: In the legend of Partridge, a mere tap stuns the water-fairy.]

Algonquin Legends of New England Charles Godfrey Leland 1863