elf-dances

Noun

elf-dance (plural elf-dances)

1. A dance performed by elves, especially one in which humans are enticed only to find that when released years or centuries have passed.
   • Just then, in the far distance, swept along a whirlwind which had caught up the dust of the plains into columns — two, three, four, all at once dancing some wild elf-dance, like weird spirits doomed to do penance for ever upon, those arid tracks.1872 December 7, The Sydney Mail, page 729, column 4
2. Synonym of fairy ring (“a ring of fungi; a place where fairies dance”).
   • The Elves are extremely fond of dancing in the meadows, where they form those circles of a livelier green which from them are called Elf-dance (Elfdans).1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 81

   Synonyms:

   fairy ring