Brewer's: Tangie

The water sprite of the Orkneys; from Danish tang (sea-weed), with which it is covered. The tangie sometimes appears in a human form, and sometimes as a little apple-green horse.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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