naiad

And now, as played with fierce physicality and grueling commitment by Annette Bening, Diana is a movie character: an impossible person who achieved the impossible, a naiad whose truer mythological counterpart might be Narcissus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

I’d forgotten Cyane, the naiad, who rises from the river to beg Pluto not to take Proserpine.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2022

Minthe was a naiad, a water nymph stationed at a tributary to one the better rivers of hell.

From Slate ● May 4, 2012

Leighton set his youthful figure — a classical nymph or naiad — in a Mediterranean setting.

From Washington Post

The naiad looked like a girl of about sixteen, with full lips and a profusion of golden hair swirling about a face shaped like a valentine.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

In the chalk, marine plants and naiades predominate.

From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Alexander von Humboldt

To my relief, the directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, working with the screenwriter Julia Cox, trace Diana’s mythic roots not just to the naiads, but to zealots like Captain Ahab.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2023

In “Alas, the Nymphs… ,” the latest installment in the “Men Go Down” trilogy by John Jahnke and his company, Hotel Savant, the naiads are in modern-day Turkey, re-enacting a vengeful memory from ancient Greece.

From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2015

Misty islands float in a magic wide-screen sea, naiads romp along the water's edge, enchantresses lurk in sacred groves, galleys roll and toss on angry waves conjured up by Poseidon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Centuries later, the dryads have died from the trees and the naiads from the pools.

From Time Magazine Archive

Horrors lurked in the primeval forest, not nymphs and naiads.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton