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    Mermaid - Wikipedia

    In folklore, a mermaid is an aquatic creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide, including Europe, Asia, and Africa. Mermaids are sometimes associated with perilous events such as floods, storms, shipwrecks, … See more

    The English word "mermaid" has its earliest-known attestation in Middle English (Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, c. 1390). The compound word is formed from " See more

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    The Norman chapel in Durham Castle, built around 1078, has what is probably the earliest surviving artistic depiction of a mermaid in England. It can be seen on a south-facing capital … See more

    Melusine is a mermaid-like character from European folklore, cursed to take the form of a serpent from the waist down. Later depictions … See more

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    The siren of Ancient Greek mythology became conflated with mermaids during the medieval period. Some European Romance languages … See more

    Merwomen in Germanic literature
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    Two prophetic merwomen (MHG pl.: merwîp), Sigelinde … See more

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    The mermaid corresponds to Danish and Bokmål Norwegian havfrue, whereas merman answers to … See more

    The conception of the siren as both a mermaid-like creature and part bird-like persisted in Byzantine Greece for some time. The See more

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