Cloth Billows
Big Fat Rat
Mythology is laden with water spirits: naiads, fuaths, sprites, nixies, gwragedd annwn. Some are kind, some playful, some mischievous and naughty, and some are wicked…very, very happily wicked. But whether they dwell in ponds or lakes, whether they occupy rivers or brooks, whether they inhabit wells or rain-barrels, these spirits all possess something in common: a powerful and compelling attraction.
Maybe water spirits draw their power from the beguiling, seductive call of water itself…the fact that water endows everything and everybody with a slow sensuality. Water caresses, tickles, nuzzles, fondles and we all want to give ourselves over to it.
Only children and other unsophisticated minds believe in water spirits, of course. We adults are too worldly-wise. At least until we immerse ourselves again in water; then everything is possible. Maybe the water spirits reside in us.
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