Scandinavian Folklore: The Nix

Honestly, I'm still in Michigan. My car comes to pick me up at 10:30 EST, so like a good little writer, I thought I would put in some time on the book this morning.

But first, here's a little write up on the nix. The nix are water faeries in Norway. They can look like people, but often they look like horses. The nix's gimick is to get people to ride it, and then either drown them, or throw them off into the water.

One final kind of invisible that I think is worth mentioning is the Silver Mother. She is not as active in Norway, where there are fewer mines, but she appears to warn miners that there will be an accident, or she rescues them from accidents.

Stay tuned for Old Nick tales.

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On the writing trail, I did a little research into the folklore of Mexico, and I wrote a couple of fairly sketchy scenes that need much more detail. We're back to the troll scenes next session.

Here's the word count, which will get mightily trimmed when I prosify some research.

10573 / 90000 words. 12% done!

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