No mythological origin story for a supernatural Nishi is provided in the available sources. The material treats 'Nyishi' as the name of an ethnic group and language rather than as a mythic being.
No descriptions of a supernatural Nishi's appearance exist in the provided material. The sources discuss the Nyishi people in demographic and linguistic terms only.
The provided sources contain no information about supernatural abilities or behaviours associated with any entity named Nishi.
Niobe (Argive)
Niobe is a mortal figure of Greek myth, daughter of Tantalus and wife of Amphion, famed for boasting of her many children and for grieving them when Apollo and Artemis slew the Niobids; she is transformed into a perpetually weeping rock on Mount Sipylus in later tradition.
Niobid
A Niobid is one of the children of Niobe and Amphion in Greek myth; collectively the Niobids are mortal royal offspring slain by Apollo and Artemis as punishment for Niobe's boastful comparison with Leto. They function as tragic victims and exempla of the consequences of human hubris toward the gods.
Nirṛti
A Vedic and later Hindu personification of decay, sorrow, and inauspiciousness. In early Vedic texts Nirṛti functions as an unwanted presence associated with the kingdom of the dead and with ritual misfortune; in later Puranic and Agamic material the name is sometimes recast as a male dikpala (guardian) of the southwest with varied iconography.
Nis Puk
The Nis Puk is a household spirit from Danish-, Low German- and North Frisian-speaking areas of Schleswig and adjacent regions. Treated as a hybrid of the nisse (house-sprite) and puk/puck (kobold-like manikin), it acts as a domestic helper or a wealth-bringer in some localities and enforces reciprocal obligations through tests, rewards, and punishments.
Nisaba
Nisaba is an ancient Sumerian goddess chiefly associated with writing, the scribal arts, wisdom, and grain. Attested from the Fara (Early Dynastic) period onward, she functions as the divine patron and legitimizer of literacy, accounting, and the institutional arts of tablets and archives, and later becomes identified with grain itself.
Nishi
Bengali spirit of the night that calls your name in a loved one's voice — answering three times seals your fate. Its call cannot be refused by those whose time has come.
Niskus
River god in Celtic tradition associated with the River Hamble, linked to flooding and drought. (Note: 1. Power tier: Primordial seems too high given Niskus is a river god tied to a local river deity (Lesser power tier would be more accurate). 2. Abilities: Statement should specify that Niskus's abilit)
Nisroch
Nisroch is a theonym attested in the Hebrew Bible as a god of Assyria whose temple is the scene of King Sennacherib's assassination (2 Kings 19:37; Isaiah 37:38). Modern scholarship finds no Mesopotamian deity securely attested under this name and generally treats the biblical reading as likely corrupt; post-biblical traditions recast Nisroch variously as a wooden idol (Talmudic legend), a named demon in early-modern demonologies, and a Victorian-era label misapplied to excavated eagle-headed protective figures.
Nisse (tomte / tomtenisse / tonttu)
A Scandinavian household and farmstead spirit tied to a particular homestead; a small, human‑like custodian who performs chores, protects livestock and property in return for annual ritual food offerings (notably Yule porridge), and who can become dangerous if offended or neglected.
Nisus and Euryalus
A pair of young Trojan warriors in Virgil's Aeneid whose intense companionship and joint night-raid into the Rutulian camp exemplify pietas, youthful valor, and the tragic cost of war. Presented as mortal literary personae rather than supernatural beings, their story functions as an intertextual echo of Homeric companion-pairs and as a moral-poetic exemplum within Augustan epic.
Nittaewo
A figure of Sri Lankan Veddah and broader folk tradition: a legendary small, bipedal, hairy hominid/cryptid said to have lived in forests and caves of Sri Lanka, described in oral testimony as antagonistic to Veddah people and allegedly exterminated by them in the recent past.
Nix Nought Nothing
Nix Nought Nothing is the provisional personal name of the human protagonist in a Scottish fairy-tale (ATU 313, "The Magic Flight") who is promised to a giant and compelled to perform impossible tasks, rescued and aided by the giant's magical daughter. The tale centers on rash promise, naming as temporary identity, magical tasks, flight from the giant, and a sleep-enchantment resolved by a counter-spell and social reparation.
Community Record
- [1]Nyishi people — Wikipedia. "The Nyishi people are a dominant ethnic group in Arunachal Pradesh, in northeastern India. They speak a Tani language known as the Nishi language. Their population of around 300,000 makes them the most populous tribe of Arunachal Pradesh, closely followed by the tribes of the Adi according to 2001 census."wiki
- [2]Maurizio Miceli - Tribute To Netlabels II (archive record). "Et voilà... A new Tribute to Netlabels, with music mixed & selected by Maurizio , 4 differents dj mixes for a total duration of 7:03:20 of music !"other