woodwoman

plural woodwomen

1. alternativeAlternative form of woodswoman.
2. artsA female elf, nature spirit, or the like, that inhabits the woods.

   In the story of Balderus and Hotherus in Saxo Grammaticus, which tells in a form more nearly resembling the form of mediæval legends the history of the death of Balder, we meet with some wood-women in a transition state between Valkyriur and witches.

   1882, Charles Francis Keary, Outlines of Primitive Belief Among the Indo-European Races, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 510

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   "In the vile," says Dr. Krauss, " also known as Samovile, Samodivi, and Vilivrjaci, we have near relations to the forest and field spirits or the wood and moss-folk of Middle Germany, France and Bavaria the wild people of Hesse, Eifel, Salzburg and the Tyrol, the wood-women and woodmen of Bohemia[.]"

   1920, Lewis Spence, An Encyclopædia of Occultism, London: George Routledge and Sons, page 370, column 2