In folklore, a mermaid is an aquatic creature with the head and top physique of a girl human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids show up in the folklore of many cultures worldwide, consisting of the Near East, Europe, Asia, and Africa. In historical Assyria, the goddess Atargatis converted herself into a mermaid out of disgrace for by accident killing her human lover. Mermaids are occasionally related with perilous occasions such as floods, storms, shipwrecks, and drownings. In different folks' traditions (or now and again inside the identical tradition), they can be benevolent or beneficent, bestowing boons or falling in love with humans. The male equal of the mermaid is the merman, additionally an acquainted parent in folklore and heraldry. Although traditions about and sightings of mermen are much less frequent than these of mermaids, they are usually assumed to co-exist with their woman counterparts. The male and the girl together are occasionally referred to as merfolk or merpeople.
The thought of mermaids in the West may also have been influenced by using the Sirens of Greek mythology, which had been at the beginning half-birdlike, however got here to be pictured as half-fishlike in the Christian era. Historical money owed of mermaids, such as these said by means of Christopher Columbus all through his exploration of the Caribbean, might also have been sightings of manatees or comparable aquatic mammals. While there is no proof that mermaids exist outdoor folklore, reviews of mermaid sightings proceed to the current day.
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