Undine
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Undines are a category of elemental beings associated with water, stemming from the alchemical writings of Paracelsus. Later writers developed the undine into a water nymph in its own right, and it co
Baden Undine Kurpark
Undine A novella
Les Ondines by Antoine Calbet, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Cambrai
Undine Rising from the Waters by Chauncey Bradley Ives at Yale's Art Gallery
Naiad
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In Greek mythology, the naiads, sometimes also hydriads, are a type of female spirit, or nymph, presiding over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water. They are dist
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…waterfalls, and their beautiful singing voices are sometimes heard over the sound of water. The group contains many species, including nereides, limnads, naiades, mermaids and potamides. What undines lack, compared to humans, is an immortal soul. Marriage with a human shortens their lives on Earth, but earns…
John William Waterhouse A Naiad or Hylas with a Nymph, 1893
Undine, by John William Waterhouse
Gioacchino Pagliei - The Naiads, 1881
Fountain of the Naiads, 1888, Piazza della Repubblica, Rome