Crossword-Solution: NIXES 5 letters, 36 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Tacitus says: "It is believed that there is something holy and prophetic about them, and therefore the warriors neither despise their counsels nor disregard their responses." This German paganism was eminently fanciful--it peopled the earth, air and sea with supernatural beings--the rivers had their Undines, the caverns their Gnomes, the woods their Sprites, and the ocean its Nixes.

There were Nixes in the streams, and Kobolds in the caves, and Tannhauser in the dark pine-glades, who hated the Christian man, and would lure him to his death.

The rivers had their Undines, the ocean its Nixes, the caverns their Gnomes, and the woods their Sprites.

The German Elves, like those of other climes, have an irresistible propensity to dance and song, especially the Nixes, who, rising from their river or ocean home, will seat themselves on the shore and pour forth such sweet music as to enchant all who hear them, and are ever ready to impart their wondrous skill for the hope or promise of salvation.

They brought with them, out of the heart of Asia, dark and sad nature-superstitions, some of which linger among our peasantry till this day, of elves, trolls, nixes, and what not.