River god

It was as if she had been wooed by a river-god, who might any time take her to his wondrous halls below a watery heaven.

Although human sacrifice was discontinued in ancient times, the idea continues that the river god claims as his own any man who falls into the stream.

From then on the people of Ye never again dared speak of the River God taking a wife.

Some weeks, alas, we return to camp with six dead minnows and a dripping hemp bag full of dodgy clams, but this week, praise be, the river god has smiled on us [...].