Nick" (or "Old Nick"),,512,2001-01-01 00:00:00.000,2009-10-21 07:36:49.503,9999-12-31 23:59:59.997,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,1G2,139531G2:3403803290,3403803290,"Nicol, Betty (Elizabeth) Humphrey(1917-1993)
"Nick" (or "Old Nick")
A well-known British nickname for the devil, comparable with the American "Mr. Splitfoot " or "Old Scratch." It seems probable that this name is derived from the Dutch nikken, the devil, which again comes from the Anglo-Saxon noec-an, to slay, deriving from the theological view that the devil was "a murderer from the beginning."
In northern countries there is a river spirit named "Neck," "Nikke," or "Nokke," of the same nature as the water kelpie and the merman or triton.
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Nick" (or "Old Nick"),,512,2001-01-01 00:00:00.000,2009-10-21 07:36:49.503,9999-12-31 23:59:59.997,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,1G2,139531G2:3403803290,3403803290,"Nicol, Betty (Elizabeth) Humphrey(1917-1993)
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