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2. Mermaid - Wikipedia

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   But the mermaid's fish-tail poses an insurmountable obstacle for enticing humans, and a sea-witch offers a potion to transform into human form, at a price (the mermaid's tongue and beautiful voice). The mermaid endures the excruciating pain of having human legs, and despite her inability to speak, almost succeeds in wedding the prince, but for ...

3. Mami Wata - Wikipedia

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   The appearance of her hair ranges from straight, curly to wooly black and combed straight back. [4] [5] Most scholarly sources suggest the name "Mami Wata" is a pidgin English derivation of "Mother Water", reflecting the goddess's title ("mother of water" or "grandmother of water") in the Agni language of Côte d'Ivoire, [6] although this etymology has been disputed by Africanist writers in ...

4. Merrow - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. Are mermaids real or a fin-tastic fable? The history and ...

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   Take, for example, Disney’s 2023 remake of “The Little Mermaid,” the 2023 Netflix documentary “MerPeople” and Fairgrounds St. Pete, an immersive art and tech experience home to ...

6. Ningyo - Wikipedia

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   Ningyo (人魚, "human fish"), as the name suggests, is a creature with both human and fish-like features, described in various pieces of Japanese literature.. Though often translated as "mermaid", the term is technically not gender-specific and may include the "mermen".

7. Mythic humanoids - Wikipedia

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   Commonly depicted as having beautiful insectoid wings. Faun – Humanoid beings with the horns and lower bodies of goats. Fetch – an exact, spectral double of a living human; can appear as an omen. Fext – (Slavic) Undead warriors who can only be killed with bullets made of glass; Finmen – (Scottish) Mermaid like beings from Orkney lore.