beaverling

Updated: May 22, 2025

The wife stumbled into the water, and, as soon as her foot was wet, she immediately resumed her old shape as a beaver, her son became a beaverling, and the brooklet, changing to a roaring river, bore them to the lake. Once the hunter saw his wife again among her beast kin. 'To thee I sacrificed all, she said, 'and I only asked thee to help me dry-footed over the waters.

Andrew Lang - Custom and Myth