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.
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.
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
Nixie (folklore)
…southern Scandinavian version can take on the form of a horse named Bäckahästen ("the brook horse"), similar to other water horses such as the Scottish kelpie and the Welsh Ceffyl Dŵr. The modern English form nixie stems from German: Nixe (feminine form of Nix), from Middle High German: nixe, from an earlier…
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