Undine
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Ondines or undinesare elementals, enumerated as the water elementals in works of alchemy by Paracelsus.<ref> Carole B. Silver, Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness, p 38 ISBN 0-19-512100-6</ref> They also appear in European folklore as fairy-like creatures; the name may be used interchangeably with those of other water spirits.<ref>C.S. Lewis, The Discarded Image, p135 ISBN 0-521-47735-2</ref> Undines were said to be able to gain a soul by marrying a human and bearing his child.
Undine A water nymph without a soul, which she later received by marrying a mortal and bearing a child: Heroine of a book (1812) by Baron Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, German author
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