A Brief History of Mermaids

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Mermaids are generally considered to be rare creatures with the upper part of a woman and the lower part of fish, allegedly found in uninhabited regions

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"Pliny the Elder" wrote about half-human, half-fish creatures that he called nereids or sea nymphs, but the description fits what we would today call mermaids

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Italian explorer and navigator "Christopher Columbus" spent most of his life at sea, claimed to have seen three mermaids off the coast of Haiti in 1493

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In Greek mythology, the description of the mermaid has existed long back, in fact, they are called Sirens there. The word mermaid literally means, "maid of the sea"

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Mermaids even have supernatural powers like predicting storms and earthquakes, along with the power of hypnotizing and even controlling water

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The undersea kingdom of Naranda, also known as the kingdom of mermaids, is a place located deep inside the sea where the abode of mermaids resides

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In the Ramayana period, while going to Sri Lanka, Hanuman encountered Ravana's daughter Suvannamaccha (literally, "golden mermaid") who was a mermaid

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Around the year 1222, the body of a dead mermaid was found ashore in Hakata Bay, on the Japanese island of Kyushu, where now a temple is built

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In Russia and Ukraine, stories of evil mermaids are quite prevalent, known there as rusalka. These are the restless spirits of departed females killed violently near the sea

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