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She imagined a climactic moment in which Medusa confronts Athena and asks the goddess why she, the victim, was unjustly punished, and added a noncanonical love affair between Medusa and a female water nymph.

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The word “Nyad” is a derivation of “naiad,” the water nymph from Greek mythology.

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Her hair in bangs, her huge eyes echoing those of Christy’s water nymph, she looks just as romantic as the art.

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The ghostly water nymphs were normally confined to their homes in the river, but during Semik, they could come out at night and would dance in the fields under the stars.

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“On the Tollense trade route, with Nordic amber, a traveler offered up her amulet to the local water nymphs for further good luck on the voyage,” Dr. Kaul said.

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