Game Time

There are many lists in The Water-Babies. Let’s turn one of them into a game.

Give yourself 1 point for each mythical creature that you recognize from the list below. The maximum possible score is 31.

. . . who assured every one who found himself the better or wiser for the news, that there were not, never had been, and could not be, any rational or half-rational beings except men, anywhere, anywhen, or anyhow; that nymphs, satyrs, fauns, inui, dwarfs, trolls, elves, gnomes, fairies, brownies, nixes, wilis, kobolds, leprechaunes, cluricaunes, banshees, will-o’-the-whisps, follets, lutins, magots, goblins, afrits, marids, jinns, ghouls, peris, deevs, angels, archangels, imps, bogies, or worse, were all pure bosh and wind.

What was your score? I got 23!