Brewer's: Dancing-water

(The), which beautifies ladies, makes them young again, and enriches them. It fell in a cascade in the Burning Forest, and could only be reached by an underground passage. Prince Chery fetched a bottle of this water for his beloved Fair-star, but was aided by a dove. (Fairy Tales, by the Comtesse d'Aulnoy.)

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