nixie

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I think of the river and how, when one nixie detached from the others, Cardan waited until it paused and then left so we could get out of the water.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

The kitchen fire was this salamander's second element, for the first and native element of this dear nixie was water.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

You were then a child; Now you are a nixie, spell-weaving, wild.

From The Feast at Solhoug by Archer, William

The male is called nix, the female nixie, the generic term for both being nicker, from a root which perhaps means ‘to wash.’

From Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine by Spence, Lewis

On dancing ripples, a nixie is laughing to echoing horns and lures us back to the story.

From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Goepp, Philip H.