It is even so with the nixies in the water, that lure a man therein, in the shape of wife or maid, with whom he doth dally and begetteth offspring of them.
"German Culture Past and Present"
Ernest Belfort Bax
Now as for him, he had actually beheld naiads and dryads, nixies and pixies, at play-at least he had practically been upon the point of seeing them.
"Flowing Gold"
Rex Beach
But the foaming seas cast Beowulf on some jagged cliffs, and would fain have battered his body into broken fragments against them, and as he fought and struggled to resist their raging cruelty, mermaids and nixies and many monsters of the deep joined forces with the waves and strove to wrest his life from him.
"A Book of Myths"
Jean Lang