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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]
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 ...
The conception of the siren as both a mermaid-like creature and part bird-like persisted in Byzantine Greece for some time. [187] The Physiologus began switching the illustration of the siren as that a mermaid, as in a version dated to the ninth century. [75] The tenth century Byzantine Greek dictionary Suda still favored the avian description ...
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.
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 ...
The siren or mermaid with two tails and a crown, a heraldic symbol which inspired the Starbucks logo, is frequently identified as a melusine. [46] [47] However, this name and the link to Melusine seems to have originated in the late 19th century. [48]
The Sirena is an Engkanto –' the Filipino counterpart of English mermaids. [2] Engkantos are classified as one of the Bantay Tubig, (guardian of a body of water) a Filipino term for mythical guardians of the water. In addition to the Sirena, other examples of Bantay Tubig are Siyokoy, Kataw, and Ugkoy. The male version of a Sirena is called a ...
2018 – The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead, a horror film about a rusalka who falls in love with a man and places a curse on him. 2018 – Rusalki feature in The Surface Breaks, a YA novel by Louise O'Neill and a retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's 1857 story "The Little Mermaid".