Meaning of elf king | Babel Free

Definitions

A male monarch of elves.

Examples

“There is also a tune⟳ called the Elf-king's tune⟳, which several of the good fiddlers know⟳ right well, but never venture to play⟳, for as soon as it begins, both old and young, and even inanimate objects, are impelled to dance⟳, and the player cannot stop⟳ unless he can play⟳ the air backwards, or that some one comes behind him and cuts the strings of his fiddle.”

“As he draws near to the elf-mount, or is about to ride⟳ through the gateway of the castle, his ears are ravished with most wondrous music, and from among the fairest maidens that he there sees dancing in a ring⟳, the Elf-king's daughter herself steps forth fairer than them all[.]”

“If Burd Ellen had gone “widishins" round the church, she would, I think⟳, have⟳ used the best homoeopathic specific against the Elf-King's power; for "to go widishins" was the chief element in elfin practices, and if mortals wished to resist⟳ or unspell elf-craft, they, too, had "to go widershins," or they had to repeat⟳ the Paternoster backwards, which came to the same thing, or do something else contrariwise.”

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