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Updated: June 8, 2025
The solitary and romantic look of this piece of woodland, and the frequent recurrence of its mazy stream, put him in mind, Colonel Wildman said, of the little German fairy tale of Undine, in which is recorded the adventures of a knight who had married a water-nymph.
"What does it matter," she would ask, with a hateful glance into the glass, "when at best, I look like a water-nymph with hay-fever?"... A long and hard fight, but she had almost broken the habit of thinking what she might do with certain prerogatives of women, which were not granted to her. A bitter fight, and only she knew the hollowness of the honors her good work had brought.
The votive offerings found on the spot, which clearly refer to the begetting of children, may possibly have been dedicated to Egeria rather than to Diana, or perhaps we should rather say that the water-nymph Egeria is only another form of the great nature-goddess Diana herself, the mistress of sounding rivers as well as of umbrageous woods, who had her home by the lake and her mirror in its calm waters, and whose Greek counterpart Artemis loved to haunt meres and springs.
In this connexion an important figure in the grove was the water-nymph Egeria, who was worshipped by pregnant women because she, like Diana, could grant them an easy delivery. From this it seems fairly safe to conclude that, like many other springs, the water of Egeria was credited with a power of facilitating conception as well as delivery.
"Fleur," came his voice, "don't be hard on a poor devil! I've been waiting hours." "For what?" "Come in my boat!" "Not I." "Why not?" "I'm not a water-nymph." "Haven't you any romance in you? Don't be modern, Fleur!" He appeared on the path within a yard of her. "Go away!" "Fleur, I love you. Fleur!" Fleur uttered a short laugh. "Come again," she said, "when I haven't got my wish."
Gypsy fell short of her mark, hit the water-nymph heavily, and it fell with a crash into the water, where the paved bottom was hard as rock. "Just see what you've done!" said Sarah, who had not a capacity for making comforting remarks. "What do you suppose your father will say?" Gypsy stood aghast.
Love is, however, the most powerful engine which the cat, the fox, and the badger alike put forth for the ruin of man. No German poet ever imagined a more captivating water-nymph than the fair virgins by whom the knight of Japanese romance is assailed: the true hero recognizes and slays the beast; the weaker mortal yields and perishes.
It is your duty to renounce her at once and do penance for your sin. Though he hardly found it possible to believe the priests assertion, the knight strove to persuade himself that it was true, and that he was really acting virtuously in renouncing the water-nymph and marrying again. So he performed the penances prescribed by the priest, and allowed the wedding preparations to proceed.
"I have," said Gypsy; "I've broken the water-nymph!" "Is that all?" asked Mr. Simms, looking relieved; "why, how did it happen?" "I jumped on it." "Jumped on it!" "Yes; I'm sure I don't know what father'll say." "Well, I must say you are a wonderful young person," said Mr. Simms, proudly. "I'm sure I'm glad that's all. Don't you fret, my dear.
For the epithet Junonian bestowed on Janus points to a marriage union between the two deities; and according to one account Janus was the husband of the water-nymph Juturna, who according to others was beloved by Jupiter. Moreover, Janus, like Jove, was regularly invoked, and commonly spoken of under the title of Father.
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