kelpie

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A malevolent shapeshifting spirit, most often in the form of a horse, believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland.

   “He was a boy in form, and an antediluvian in feature. Some thought he was a mule, between a Jew and an ape; some a wizard, some a kelpie, or a fairy, but most of all, that he was really and truly a Brownie.”

2. isim An Australian breed of sheepdog.

   “There was no sound but the endless noise of forest and river, and the sleep-whimper of his kelpie.”