Undine

Undine
Undine
GroupingLegendary creature
First attestedIn folklore
RegionEurope
Undine A novella

Undines (/ˈʌndnz, ənˈdnz/; also ondines) are a category of elemental beings associated with water, stemming from the alchemical writings of Paracelsus. Later writers developed the undine into a water nymph in its own right, and it continues to live in modern literature and art through such adaptations as Danish Hans Christian Andersen's 1837 "The Little Mermaid" and the 1811 novella Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué.