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nix or nixie, in Germanic mythology, water sprite. The nixes could assume various shapes, most frequently as half human and half fish. They could do favors for humans, particularly in teaching them bewitching music, but for the most part they were treacherous and malignant. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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At the Chicago Lyric Opera, she choreographed a twenty-three-minute "bungee ballet" for the Rhine maidens in its 1992 Das Rheingold and had acrobatic spear-wielding It was fashionable once to denigrate him as a "commercial composer" and, until George Bernard Shaw put the myth to death, to say that he was influenced in his later years by Wagner and his Harrumphing Rhine Maidens. |
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