Posted July 14, 2011
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Seriously, "nekker" is a good old Dutch word for a water demon (and it has cognates in pretty much all the Germanic languages), like a drowner, only different. I've always figured its presence in the language was due to the frequent finds of well-preserved ancient corpses ("bog people") in the peat bogs of northern Europe.
For some reason his post made me think that.