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Don’t miss future episodes of Monstrum, subscribe! http://bit.ly/pbsstoried_sub The half-human half-fish Nixie may look very familiar at first. But these shape-shifting monsters, with their eerie songs that lure humans to the watery depths, are much older, and much scarier, than the mermaids we know from pop-culture. For audio descriptions, go to Settings - Audio Track - English Descriptive. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateStoried ***** Written and Hosted by: Dr. Emily Zarka Director: David Schulte Executive Producer: Amanda Fox Producer: Thomas Fernandes Editor/Animator: Steven Simone Illustrator: Samuel Allan Executive in Charge (PBS): Maribel Lopez Director of Programming (PBS): Gabrielle Ewing Additional Footage: Shutterstock Music: APM Music Descriptive Audio & Captions provided by The Described and Captioned Media Program Produced by Spotzen for PBS Digital Studios. Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/monstrumpbs ---------------------------- Bibliography Bassett, Fletcher S. Sea Phantoms: Or, Legends and Superstitions of the Sea and of Sailors in All Lands and at All Times. United States, Morrill, Higgins & Company, 1892. Feuerlicht, Ignace. “Heine’s ‘Lorelei’: Legend, Literature, Life.” The German Quarterly, vol. 53, no. 1, 1980, pp. 82–94. Friedrich, Heinrich K. Undine: Newly Translated from the German of De La Motte-Fouqué. United Kingdom: Smith, Elder, and Co.,1858. Kemmis, Deva. “Becoming the Listener: Goethe’s ‘Der Fischer.’” Goethe Yearbook, vol. 25, no. 1, 2018, pp. 31–54. Kramer, Lawrence. “‘Longindycall’: Of Music, Modernity, and the Sirens.” Music of the Sirens, Eds. Linda Phyllis Austern and Inna Naroditskaya. Indiana University Press, 2006, pp. 194-215. Orchard, Andy. A Critical Companion to Beowulf. United Kingdom, D.S. Brewer, 2003. Naroditskaya, Inna and Linda Phyllis Austern. “Introduction: Singing Each to Each.” Music of the Sirens, Eds. Linda Phyllis Austern and Inna Naroditskaya. Indiana University Press, 2006, pp. 1-15. Nurbhai, Saleel. “Idealisation and Irony IN George Eliot’s ‘Middlemarch.’” George Eliot—George Henry Lewes Studies, no. 38/39 (2000): 18–25. Rose, Carol. Giants Monsters and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth, W.W. Norton & Company, 2001. Triggs. Jeffery A. “Fevers Deeply Burning: Sexuality in the Brothers Grimm’s ‘Nixie of the Millpond.’” Studies in Short Fiction, 26 (1), 1989, pp. 86–90. Wakefield, Sarah R. Folklore in British Literature: Naming and Narrating in Women’s Fiction 1750–1880. Peter Land, 2006.