Mélusine or Melusine or Melusina is a figure of European folklore, a female spirit of fresh water in a holy well or river. She is usually depicted as a woman who is a serpent or fish from the waist down. She is also sometimes illustrated with wings, two tails, or both. Her legends are especially connected with the northern and western areas of France, Luxembourg, and the Low Countries.
Melusine's secret discovered, from Le Roman de Mélusine by Jean d'Arras, ca 1450–1500. Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Raymond walks in on his wife, Melusine, in her bath and discovers she has the lower body of a serpent. Illustration from the Jean d'Arras work, Le livre de Mélusine (The Book of Melusine), 1478.
Statue of Melusine near the Alzette in Luxembourg
Melusine by Ludwig Michael von Schwanthaler (1845)
The Nixie, Nixy, Nix, Näcken, Nicor, Nøkk, or Nøkken are humanoid, and often shapeshifting water spirits in Germanic mythology and folklore.
Nøkken by Theodor Kittelsen, 1904
Näckens polska by Bror Hjorth
Näcken ("The Water Sprite") by Ernst Josephson, 1884
The Neck as a brook horse by Theodor Kittelsen, a depiction of the Neck as a white horse