korriganとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Breton korrigan, from korr (“dwarf”) +‎ -ig (diminutive suffix) +‎ -an (hypocoristic suffix).

発音

• IPA: /ˈkɒɹɪɡən/, /ˈkɒɹəɡən/

名詞

korrigan (plural korrigan or korrigans)

1. (mythology, folklore) A long-haired nocturnal and often malevolent Breton fairy princess; such creatures considered collectively.
   • 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 431:

     The Korrigan, our authority further states, can predict the future, assume any form they please, move from place to place with the rapidity of thought, cure maladies by the aid of charms which they communicate to their favourites.

   • 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 432:

     Like fairies in general the Korrigan steal children, against which the remedy usually employed is, to place the child under the protection of the Virgin, by putting a rosary or a scapulary about its neck.

   • 1945, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, HarperCollins, published 2019, →ISBN, page 9:

     A continental Celtic female fairy called a corrigan, malevolent, sometimes seductive.