sea fairy

English

Noun

sea fairy (plural sea fairies)

  1. A type of fairy, typically female and beautiful, that inhabits the oceans, such as an undine or siren.
    • 1913 December 20, The Fitzroy City Press, Melbourne, page 4, column 5:
      In the island of Lewis, librations [sic] were offered, to "Shoney," a sea fairy, in order to bring seaweed, this being a folk-memory of an ancient sea god or goddess, to whom offerings of ale were made by the Vikings at Halloween.
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