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For those of you out there that want to know what Nixie means.

Nixies
Germanic water-faries similar to Greek nereids, children of Mother Night, whose name in Norse was Nott; in Greek, Nyx. As a personification of the dark Chaos as the beginning and end of the universe, she gave rise to the word nix, negative or nothingness. Pre-Christian religions viewed the Goddess Nyx-Selene (Night-Moon) as the agent of deification after death, which made her a direct rival of the Christian saviour figure. Her nixies were abyssal angels who kept the souls of the dead in an underwater fairyland, in "posts turned upside down," after the manner of all Teutonic death-spirits. In the Middle Ages, the water-fairies assumed the same characteristics as their close relatives, the mermaids, sirens, wilis, and water-witches; that is, they lured hapless sailors into the water and magically devoured their souls.

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The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
-Barbara G. Walker (1996)