salamandress

Updated: May 18, 2025

You are my child, whom I begot, not indeed with a sylphide, salamandress, or other elementary spirit, but of that poor country lady of a fine old family, to whom the God-forgotten neighbours gave the nickname of the 'goat-girl' on account of her idyllic nature.

E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann - The Serapion Brethren.: Vol. II