Querquetulanae

English

Noun

Querquetulanae pl (plural only)

1. (Roman mythology) The nymphs of the oak grove.
   • 2002, Charles Godfrey Leland, Etruscan Roman Remains and the Old Religion, page 106:

     These Querquetulanae have an apparent, or barely possible, survival in the spirits called Querkeln in Bavaria.

   • 2018, W. Stone Cotter, Saint Philomene's Infirmary for Magical Creatures:

     There weren't demons or vampires or fairies or shellycoats or Querquetulanae or any of that stuff.

   • 2019, Maria Papachristos, Muses - Nymphs - Other Gods, page 55:

     They are partly associated with the Querquetulanae, the Roman nymphs of the oak grove.