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Several legends associate Triton of Greek mythology with the city, which may have been the origin of the mermaid's association. [ 392 ] The Cusack family crest includes a mermaid wielding a sword, as depicted on a memorial stone for Sir Thomas Cusack (1490–1571).
A popular Greek legend has it that Thessalonike became a mermaid who lived in the Aegean after the death of Alexander. [20] [21] The legend states that Alexander, in his quest for the Fountain of Immortality, retrieved with great exertion a flask of immortal water.
Archaic perfume vase in the shape of a siren, c. 540 BC The etymology of the name is contested. Robert S. P. Beekes has suggested a Pre-Greek origin. [5] Others connect the name to σειρά (seirá, "rope, cord") and εἴρω (eírō, "to tie, join, fasten"), resulting in the meaning "binder, entangler", [6] [better source needed] i.e. one who binds or entangles through magic song.
The myths and history behind mermaids. ... As Dr. Compora highlights, the 1989 Disney movie “The Little Mermaid” included elements “reminiscent of the Greek sirens, from which much of the ...
According to Greek legend, Parthenope cast herself into the sea and drowned when her songs failed to entice Odysseus. [9]: 293 Her body washed ashore at Naples, on the island of Megaride, where the Castel dell'Ovo is now located. [10] Her tomb on the island was called "constraction of sirens". [11]
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 ...
"Melusina", legends about mermaids, water sprites, and forest nymphs who marry mortal men, translated and/or edited by D. L. Ashliman at the University of Pittsburgh; Terri Windling, "Married to Magic: Animal Brides and Bridegrooms in Folklore and Fantasy" Jean D'Arras, Melusine, Archive.org "Mélusine" .
Although billed as a "mermaid", this has also been bluntly referred to as a "Barnum's merman" in one piece of journalism. [86] This specimen was an example of fake mermaids posed in "The Scream" style, named after Edvard Munch's painting; mermaids in this pose were commonly made in the late 18th and early 19th century in Japan. [38]