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Nixie (folklore)

The nixie, nixy, nix, neck, or nicker (Old English: nicor; Danish: nøkke; Dutch: nikker, nekker; Estonian: näkk; Faroese: nykur; Finnish: näkki; German: Nixe; Icelandic: nykur; Norwegian Bokmål: nøkk, nøkken; Nynorsk: nykk; Swedish: näck, näcken, French: neckre), are humanoid, and often shapeshifting, water spirits in Germanic mythology and folklore.

Culture, Nordic folklore & German folklore

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Nordic folklore

German folklore

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Nixie (folklore)

Nodes146
Edges145
Triples2
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.013699
Components1

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nixie water horse also german swedish brook one nix folklore form näkki nixe näcken english spirits nykur norwegian näck could

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
the Scottish kelpieinstance ofsimilar to other water horses0.80text
the Welsh Ceffyl Dŵrinstance ofsimilar to other water horses0.80text

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