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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. 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
Merwomen in Germanic literature
Nibelungenlied
Two prophetic merwomen (MHG pl.: merwîp), Sigelinde (MHG: Sigelint) and her maternal aunt … See moreMelusine is a mermaid-like character from European folklore, cursed to take the form of a serpent from the waist down. Later depictions … See more
The siren of Ancient Greek mythology became conflated with mermaids during the medieval period. Some European Romance languages still use cognate terms for siren to … See more
The Norman chapel in Durham Castle, built around 1078, has what is probably the earliest surviving artistic depiction of a mermaid in … 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
Films mentioned in the articleWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license Mermaid | Diagramming and charting tool
WEBMermaid is a tool that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions to create and modify diagrams dynamically. It is easy to use, has integrations with other applications, and won the 2019 JavaScript Open Source Award.
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