Dancing-water (The),

which beautifies ladies, makes them young again, and enriches them. It fell in a cascade in the Burning Forest, and could only be reached by an underground passage. Prince Chery fetched a bottle of this water for his beloved Fair-star, but was aided by a dove. (Fairy Tales, by the Comtesse d’Aulnoy.) (See Yellow Water.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Danace
Danaë
Danaides
Danaos
Danaw
Dance
Dance (Pyrrhic)
Dance of Death
Dances
Dances
Dancing-water (The)
Dandelion
Dander
Dandie Dinmont
Dandin (French)
Dandin (George)
Dandiprat
Dando (A)
Dandy
Dandy-horse
Dandyism

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