Contents Water Deities and Sirens from Olden Times • Oannes
• Kāliya, the Snake
• Odysseus and the Sirens
• The Tuna (Eel) of Lake Vaihiria
Mermaids and Other Merbeings in Europe Merfolk in the Waters of Greenland and Iceland• The Marvels of the Waters about Greenland
• The Merman
Two Mermaids and a Selkie from the Scottish Highlands • The Mermaid of Kessock
• The Grey Selchie of Sule Skerrie
• The Mermaid’s Grave
A Seal Woman or Maiden of the Sea from Ireland • Tom Moore and the Seal Woman
Dangerous Mermaids in Two Child Ballads • Clark Colven, Child 42A
• The Mermaid, Child 289B
A Bavarian Freshwater Merman • In the Jaws of the Merman.
A Freshwater Mermaid in Grimms’ Fairy Tales • The Nixie in the Pond
Estonian Water Spirits • Three Texts (untitled)
Two Greek Mermaids • New Tunes
• The Mermaid
Merfolk from the South of Italy • A Mermaid’s Story
• Cola Pesce
• The Sailor and the Mermaid of the Sea
Literary Tales • Legend of Melusina
• Fortunio and the Siren
• The Day after the Wedding, from
Undine • The Little Mermaid
• The Fisherman and His Soul
• The Golden Mermaid
• A Mermaid’s Tears
• Abyssus Abyssum Invocat
Merfolk and Water Spirits Across the Globe African Water Beings • Yemọja
Merfolk in The Thousand and One Nights • Julnar the Mermaid and Her Son Badar Basim of Persia
A Persian Sea Fairy • The Sea Fairy
Three Khasi Narratives About Water Spirits • About K—, the River Goddess Who Exists in Jaintia Hills
• How Water Tied a Covenant with Man and the Divine Nature of Water
• About a
Puri Enchantment
A Mer-Wife in the Indian Ocean • Shoān, a Nicobar Tale
A Hairy Chinese Mermaid • Mermaids
Mermaids from Japan • The Mermaid
• Yao Bikuni
Water Spirits of the Philippines • The Mermaid Queen
• The Litao and Serena
• The American and the Sirena of Amburayan
• A Mermaid in Mabini
• Mermaid
A Mer-Wife in Northern Australia • Karukayn (Mermaids)
A Chamorro Girl Becomes a Mermaid • Sirena
The Feejee Mermaid Hoax • The Mermaid
Mermaids and Mo’o of Hawai’i • The Mermaid of Honokawailani Pond
• Kalamainuʻu, the Moʻo who Seduced Punaʻaikoaʻe
Water Beings of South America • The Fisherman’s Water-jug and Potato
• Oiára, The Water-Maidens
• The Pincoya
• The Mermaids
African Water Spirits in the Caribbean • Ti Jeanne
• Maman Dlo’s Gift
Water Beings of Indigenous North America • The Horned Serpent Runs Away with a Girl who is Rescued by the Thunderer
• Of the Woman Who Loved a Serpent That Lived in a Lake
• How Two Girls Were Changed into Water-Serpents
• Ne Hwas, the Mermaid
• Legend of the Fish Women (Mermaids)
• The Woman Who Married a Merman
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