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Definition of Rusalka
1. Noun. In Slavic mythology, a female water spirit that leads handsome men to their deaths underwater. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rusalka
1. a Russian water-nymph [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rusalka
Literary usage of Rusalka
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"At other times, like the rusalka, she is seen engaged in the more prosaic occupation
of washing or beating clothes ; but this,, as, for example, ..."
2. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by George Lyman Kittredge (1884)
"For example : a rusalka (water-nymph) pursues a pretty girl, and says, ...
"The girl did not guess the riddles: the rusalka tickled her to death. ..."
3. The Songs of the Russian People: As Illustrative of Slavonic Mythology and by William Ralston Shedden Ralston (1872)
"On the first Monday of the " Peter's Fast " a figure made of straw is draped in
woman's clothes, so as to represent a rusalka. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... sr water-sprite and the rusalka or stream-fairy of Russian ... and she is
often represented, like the Russia rusalka, as combing it with one hand ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... a similar use of the dramatic fragment <The Water Nymph' (<rusalka').
Both operas are still included in the repertory of the Imperial Russian Theatre. ..."
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