what is Mermaid?

Answer 1

are you crazy? you know what a mermaid is! Like Arial

Answer 2

A marine creature with the head and upper body of a beautiful young maiden and with the lower body of a fish. She can be found in seas and lakes, or lying on a rock and combing her hair with one hand while holding a mirror in the other. Mermaids sometimes foretell the future and are often accompanied by seals.
According to myth, they lure sailors by singing and with lovely music. They live in a kingdom on the bottom of the sea, and it is here they take their prisoners to. From this story, the fear amongst the sailor grew and they thought that seeing a mermaid would cause bad luck: it could predict death by drowning.

The belief in mermaids is not limited to a few countries, but there are tales from all over the world (in India, for instance, there are the Apsara, beautiful water nymphs). However, most of those tales were told by sailors who "saw" them on their long journeys. The idea of mermaids and mermen, the male equivalent, could be based on creatures from Greek and Babylonian mythology: Sirens and Tritons of the Greeks, and the fish gods, who were half human and half fish, from the Babylonians.

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Answer 3

A mermaid (from the Middle English mere in the obsolete sense 'sea'(as in maritime,the Latin mare, "sea") + maid(en)) is a legendary aquatic creature with the head and torso of human female and the tail of a fish.
The male version of a mermaid is called a merman. Various cultures throughout the world have similar figures. Much like Sirens, mermaids in stories would sometimes sing to sailors and enchant them, distracting them from their work and causing them to walk off the deck or cause shipwrecks. Other stories would have them squeeze the life out of drowning men while trying to rescue them. They are also said to take them down to their underwater kingdoms.

In Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid it is said that they forget that humans cannot breathe underwater, while others say they drown men out of spite.
According to myth, they lure sailors by singing and with lovely music. They live in a kingdom on the bottom of the sea, and it is here they take their prisoners to. From this story, the fear amongst the sailor grew and they thought that seeing a mermaid would cause bad luck: it could predict death by drowning.
The belief in mermaids is not limited to a few countries, but there are tales from all over the world (in India, for instance, there are the Apsara, beautiful water nymphs). However, most of those tales were told by sailors who "saw" them on their long journeys.

The idea of mermaids and mermen, the male equivalent, could be based on creatures from Greek and Babylonian mythology: Sirens and Tritons of the Greeks, and the fish gods, who were half human and half fish, from the Babylonians.

Answer 4

A mermaid is a fictional character....half women half fish do a google search click on image and type mermaid you will get a picture and information.

Answer 5

Mermaid is a creature which is half woman (top half) and half fish (bottom half). But, some said that these mermaids are actually MANATEES which were mistaken by people to be MERMAIDS. Lols.

Answer 6

mermaid is half of human being & half are of fish.upper body part like human & lower part is part of fish.
they often found in water in deep & above sometime on the rocks

Answer 7

Mermaids are amphibians like frogs.

Answer 8

A beautiful mythical creature
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Answer 9

It's a supernatural creature with a half human and a half fish body.

Answer 10

This a fictious creature that is half Woman and Half Fish