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Some experiences one can never forget... this is one... you learnt to swim.Interesting post.
posted by
shamasehar
on November 4, 2020 at 8:10 PM
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Wow!!! How frightening!
I am so glad you survived!
Gnomes/Faerie/Etc can be so mischeivious!
I would love to hear the stories you were told as you were growing up. 
posted by
Jemmie211
on October 27, 2020 at 11:00 PM
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posted by
Amanda__
on October 23, 2020 at 1:23 PM
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I will never look at a porcelain cup the same.
This is a truly amazing and hair-raising story. It is spookier than any I have encountered. 
posted by
Sherri_G
on October 23, 2020 at 7:35 AM
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Oh geez, the Water Sprite is scarier than any ghost.
I knew the pond had some eerie stories linked to it, and now I know why I avoid them.
posted by
Sherri_G
on October 23, 2020 at 7:33 AM
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What a story Taps. One does not forget an experience like this.
posted by
C_C_T
on October 23, 2020 at 7:30 AM
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I enjoyed this post so much. I learned from it but also something sounded familiar when you described Vodnik. Perhaps a guardian angel came to save you! Or an enchanted one of the elven folk. I'm glad you learned to swim. Very frightening episode.
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on October 23, 2020 at 12:22 AM
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Maybe she was one of those happy fairies!
posted by
Annicita
on October 22, 2020 at 4:15 PM
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Wow! I've learned something new today! I had never heard of this. Taps I was scared for you just reading about your water experience. Thank goodness that girl came along to save you!
posted by
Goldiec
on October 22, 2020 at 2:26 PM
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There are quite a few Czech and Bohemian folks in this neck of the woods.
They came to work the steel mills and factories that were built along the Mississippi River at towns like Granite City and others back in the late 1800s and after WWI. There is no wedding happier than one of those, the polka and schottische that draw everyone onto the dance floor make it a real festival. I had never heard the legend of the demons, little people and especially the scary water sprite. 
posted by
Pat_B
on October 22, 2020 at 2:09 PM
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Re:
LOL Kabu. I never drink tea out of a porcelain cup for I'm afraid of what else might be in there.
posted by
TAPS.
on October 22, 2020 at 1:55 PM
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That was really scary and you came so close to ending with your soul in a porcelain tea cup. I never went near our biggest catchmnet dam on our farm Mother told me that Dad threw a water man into it after he had dug it out with his machinery.
posted by
Kabu
on October 22, 2020 at 1:44 PM
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