Kelpie
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In Scottish folklore, a kelpie, or water kelpie, is a mythical shape-shifting spirit inhabiting lochs in Scotland. They also inhabit meres and streams in Yorkshire mythology. Legends of these shape-sh
One of six kelpies in the globe fountain at Shuttle Row near to Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
The Kelpie by Herbert James Draper, 1913
The Kelpie by Thomas Millie Dow, 1895
Pictish beast featured in a line drawing of the Maiden Stone
Nixie (folklore)
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The nixie, nixy, nix, neck, or nicker, are humanoid, and often shapeshifting, water spirits in Germanic mythology and folklore.
Kelpie
…an associated kelpie story, but the most extensively reported is that of Loch Ness. The kelpie has counterparts across the world, such as the Germanic nixie, the wihwin of Central America and the Australian bunyip. The origins of narratives about the creature are unclear, but the practical purposes of keeping…
Nøkken by Norwegian artist Theodor Kittelsen, 1904
Strömkarlen ("The Stream Man") by Swedish painter Ernst Josephson, 1884. In Sweden, the Nixie is often romanticised as a fair naked man, playing music to lure people in.
"The Water Sprite" by Norwegian Theodor Kittelsen (1857–1914)
Näcken ("The Nixie") by Johan Tirén (1853–1911), featuring a young boy learning violin from The Nixie in the waterfall.