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The siren appeared in several illustrated manuscripts of the Physiologus and its successors called the bestiaries. The siren was depicted as a half-woman and half-fish mermaid in the 9th century Berne Physiologus, [25] as an early example, but continued to be illustrated with both bird-like parts (wings, clawed feet) and fish-like tail. [26]
As Dr. Compora highlights, the 1989 Disney movie “The Little Mermaid” included elements “reminiscent of the Greek sirens, from which much of the Western idea of mermaids originates ...
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 ...
Siren is the name of two supervillains, both appearing in books published by DC Comics. The first character to use the name is Hila, the identical twin sister of Mera. Originating from the same underwater sub-realm as her sister, Hila was the younger twin and considered the black sheep of the family.
A mermaid, namely Siren (Brandi Burkhardt), is conjured from The Little Mermaid story by a young witch Endora Lenox (Nicole Cox) in an attempt to have her come between Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald (Adrian Bellani) and Kay Bennett (Heidi Mueller) developing relationship, as Kay is already engaged to Endora's half-brother Fox Crane (Mark Wystrach ...
The Swedish ballad "Hafsfrun" [166] (≈Havsfruns tärna , SMB 23, TSB A 51 [167]) is an instance where a mermaid kidnaps a human girl at age fifteen, and when the girl's brother accomplishes the rescue, the mermaid declares she would have cracked [u] her neck if she knew she would be thus betrayed. [169]
In ancient stories, the sirens were depicted as having bodies of a bird and human heads, but the medieval interpretations of the stories depicted them as mermaids. The terms Sirenai and Sirenusai , from the Latin Sirenusae , meaning indicate both the sirens themselves and their residence.
Merrow (from Irish murúch, Middle Irish murdúchann or murdúchu) is a mermaid or merman in Irish folklore. The term is anglicised from the Irish word murúch. The merrows supposedly require a magical cap (Irish: cochaillín draíochta; anglicised: cohuleen druith) in order to travel between deep water and dry land.