#goddamn john

The Germanic Nix combines attributes of vodyanoy and rusalka.  In human form, the Nix is usually male and handsome, and dangerous to unmarried women and unbaptized children.  Most active as summer and winter solstice (Christianized versions of the legend say Christmas Eve).  Play music to beguile its target.  Also an omen of drowning- similar to banshee - can be heard screaming from the water, signaling that someone is going to drown there.  Like vodyanoy, the Nix likes tobacco, and also vodka.  Can be made to appear by dripping blood into water, or by sacrificing a black animal.Once, in Pinckney, Michigan, I suckered a Nix by using a Black Shuck as the sacrifice.  That was a show, a demon dog tangling with a water spirit.  The Shuck won, and I sent it back to Hell for its trouble.