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  2. Mermaid - Wikipedia

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    In folklore, a mermaid is an aquatic creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. [1] Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide, including Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Mermaids are sometimes associated with perilous events such as storms, shipwrecks, and drownings (cf. § Omens ...

  3. Merfolk - Wikipedia

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    Merfolk, Merpeople, or simply Mer refers to humanoid creatures that live in deep waters like Mermaids, Sirens, Cecaelia etc. In English, female merfolk are called mermaids, although in a strict sense, mermaids are confined to beings who are half-woman and half-fish in appearance; male merfolk are called mermen. Depending on the story, they can ...

  4. Are mermaids real or a fin-tastic fable? The history and ...

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    In recent years, so-called “mer-culture” has been on the rise. Take, for example, Disney’s 2023 remake of “The Little Mermaid,” the 2023 Netflix documentary “MerPeople” and ...

  5. List of hybrid creatures in folklore - Wikipedia

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    The males are called Mermen and the females are called Mermaids. Auvekoejak – A merman from Inuit folklore of Greenland and northern Canada that has fur on its fish tail instead of scales. Ceasg – A Scottish mermaid. Sirena – A mermaid from Philippine folklore. Siyokoy – Mermen with scaled bodies from Philippine folklore. It is the male ...

  6. What it's like to be a 'real life' mermaid - AOL

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    We'll get in and clean the exhibits, and that's not such a mermaid task, but we do it anyways." At the Florida Aquarium in Tampa , the ladies make mer-life look easy -- but getting those fins on ...

  7. List of legendary creatures by type - Wikipedia

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    Mermaid / Merman – half-human, half-fish (worldwide) Water spirit – (worldwide) Undine – water elementals in the alchemical writings of Paracelsus; Abaia; Gurangatch; Hippocamp; Ika-Roa; Il Belliegha - (Malta) Eel like monster with a frog tongue and a hand on the tip of its tail that eats children who get too close to open wells. Isonade ...

  8. Mermaids in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Three teenage girls who, after encountering a mysterious sea cave, transform into mermaids in ten seconds whenever water touches any part of their bodies. In addition, they each have supernatural abilities over water in each of its forms: water, rain, floods, ice, snow, hail, cold, sleet, steam, mist and fog. H 2 O: Mermaid Adventures: 2015

  9. Hybrid beasts in folklore - Wikipedia

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    The angel (human with birds' wings, see winged genie) the mermaid (part human part fish, see Enki, Atargatis, and Apkallu) and the shedu all trace their origins to Assyro-Babylonian art. In Mesopotamian mythology the urmahlullu , or lion-man, served as a guardian spirit, especially of bathrooms.