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词条 Grindylow
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  1. In popular culture

  2. See also

  3. References

In English folklore, grindylow or grundylow is a creature in the counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire.[1] The name is thought to be connected to Grendel,[1][2] a name or term used in Beowulf and in many Old English charters where it is seen in connection with meres, bogs and lakes.[3]

Grindylows are said to grab children with their long sinewy arms and drown them if they come too close to the waters edge.[4][5] Grindylows have been used as a shadowed figure to frighten children away from pools, marshes or ponds where they could drown.[6][7]

Peg Powler and Jenny Greenteeth are similar water spirits.[4][8][9]

In popular culture

  • Grindylows appear in the Harry Potter books and films where they live in the lake near Hogwarts. They first appear in the novel Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling and are described as sickly green creatures with sharp little horns, green teeth, and long spindly fingers.[10]
  • A hostile race called grindylows appears in The Scar, a novel by China Miéville. They are described as humanoid with grey-green mottled skin, large dark eyes, foot-long teeth and a single eel-like tail below the waist.
  • Evil aquatic monsters called grindylows appear in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.[11]
  • A grindylow is in the Jane Yellowrock series by Faith Hunter as well as the companion series called Soulwood. While they are still ravaging creatures of death, a young grimndylow is cute like a green kitten and can be quite loyal to those who know it.

See also

  • Borda (legendary creature)
  • Nelly Longarms

References

1. ^1 The Nineteenth Century and After, Volume 68 (1910). Leonard Scott Pub. Co. p. 556.
2. ^Schilling, Karl Georg (1906). A Grammar of the Dialect of Oldham. p. 17.
3. ^http://www.heorot.dk/beowulf-rede-notes.html
4. ^1 Harland, John (1867). Lancashire Folk-Lore. Frederick Warne and Co. p. 53.
5. ^Briggs, Katharine (1976). An Encyclopedia of Fairies. Pantheon Books. p. 206. {{ISBN|0394409183}}.
6. ^Wright, Elizabeth Mary (1913). Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. pp. 198-199.
7. ^Colbert, David (2008) [2001]. The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter. Berkley Publishing Group. pp. 123-124. {{ISBN|0-9708442-0-4}}
8. ^Briggs (1976). pp. 242, 323.
9. ^Wright (1913). pp. 198-199, 202.
10. ^Rowling, J. K. (1999). Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Scholastic Press. p. 154. {{ISBN|0-439-13635-0}}.
11. ^{{cite book |title= Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 2 |publisher= Paizo Publishing they resemble their appearance in the Harry Potter films, though tend to be depicted as blue. |date=December 2010 |isbn= 978-1-60125-268-5}}
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