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Mermaid

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A half-human water being of later European story. Sirens, ningyo, and other water women are separate meetings.

European folklore

  • Mermaid appears in Sea.

    Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable seats the Mermaid among the Fairies catalog as a sea-spirit, upper part woman and lower half fish — beside Merrows as sea-spirits of the same waters. A named Mermaid in that sea-spirit speech, not a selkie, and not a kelpie.

    from Ebenezer Cobham Brewer · Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1870 (and later PD editions)

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