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A mermaid with two tails is referred to as a melusine. Melusines appear in German heraldry, and less frequently in the British version. [387] A shield and sword-wielding mermaid is on the official coat of arms of Warsaw. [390] Images of a mermaid have symbolized Warsaw on its arms since the middle of the fourteenth century. [391]
Take, for example, Disney’s 2023 remake of “The Little Mermaid,” the 2023 Netflix documentary “MerPeople” and Fairgrounds St. Pete, an immersive art and tech experience home to ...
Mermaids: The Body Found is a mockumentary television program [1] originally aired on American TV channels Animal Planet (May 27, 2012) and Discovery Channel (June 17, 2012). It tells a story of a scientific team's investigative efforts to uncover the source behind mysterious underwater recordings of an unidentified marine body.
Mami Wata, Mammy Water, or similar is a mermaid, water spirit, and/or goddess in the folklore of parts of Western Africa, Eastern Africa, and Southern Africa. Historically, scholars trace her origins to early encounters between Europeans and West Africans in the 15th century, where Mami Wata developed from depictions of European mermaids.
Ariel is a fictional character in Walt Disney Pictures' animated film The Little Mermaid (1989). Voiced by Jodi Benson, Ariel is the youngest daughter of King Triton and Queen Athena of an underwater kingdom called Atlantica.
Mermaids is a 1990 American family comedy-drama film directed by Richard Benjamin, and starring Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder, Michael Schoeffling, and Christina Ricci in her film debut. Based on Patty Dann 's 1986 novel of the same name , and set in the early 1960s, its plot follows a neurotic teenage girl who moves with her wayward mother ...
They have commented that kids are often surprised to see a Black mermaid. [5] The Blixunami is proud to represent queer mermaids of color, [6] [7] as a performer who is nonbinary and has Geechee heritage. [8] [2] [9] In 2016 and 2017, The Blixunami was featured on Davey Wavey's YouTube channel and on Tosh.0 on Comedy Central.
The Fiji mermaid (also Feejee mermaid) was an object composed of the torso and head of a juvenile monkey sewn to the back half of a fish. It was a common feature of sideshows where it was presented as the mummified body of a creature that was supposedly half mammal and half fish, a version of a mermaid. The original had fish scales with animal ...