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"We have given our hair to the witch," said they, "to obtain help for you, that you may not die to-night. She has given us a knife; here it is, see it is very sharp.

They had more beautiful voices than any human being could have; and before the approach of a storm... they swam before the vessel, and sang sweetly of the delights to be found in the depths of the sea, and begging the sailors not to fear if they sank to the bottom. But the sailors could not understand the song, they took it for the howling of the storm. And these things were never to be beautiful for them; for ... the men were drowned, and their dead bodies alone reached the palace....

The little mermaid kissed his hand, and felt as if her heart were already broken. His wedding morning would bring death to her, and she would change into the foam of the sea.

Check out the "BLOODY DISGUSTING" website for some CHILLING and sometimes GROSS cinematic depictions of mermaids. NOT YOUR MOM'S BABYSITTER'S LITTLE disn$y MERMAID!

https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3662642/sirens-sea-horrors-history-mermaids/

"...While most of the mermaid’s appearances play on romance, leave it to horror to lean into the darker nature of the mythology. The sea creatures’ first foray in genre film belongs to 1961’s Night Tide, a psychological horror thriller 

centered around a romance, written and directed by Curtis Harrington.

"Dennis Hopper starred as Johnny Drake, a sailor on leave in California. He meets and falls for a woman named Mora (Linda Lawson), who performs as a mermaid in a sideshow attraction at the pier. ... The more Johnny gets romantically involved with Mora, the more he begins to suspect she may not just be pretending to be a mermaid..."

from the 1911 ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA: "...known to the Greeks by a shortened form of the name, Derketo (Strabo xvi. c. 785; Pliny, Nat. Hist. v. 23. 81), and as Dea Syria, or in one word Deasura (Lucian, de Dea Syria). She is generally described as the “fish-goddess.”

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclopædia_Britannica/Atargatis

"I have seen the image of Derceto in Phenicia: a strange sight! The upper half represents a woman; the lower half, from the hips down, the tail of a fish. The goddess at Hierapolis, however, is entirely a woman."

https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5099-derceto

https://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-short-history-of-mermaids-by.html

"...Alexander the Great’s sister, Thessalonike. After her death, a legend sprang up that she had turned into a mermaid who would ask the sailors on any ship ... the question: “Is King Alexander alive?” If the sailors answered “He lives and reigns and conquers the world” then she would leave the sea calm. If there was any other answer, she would stir up a terrible storm, destroying the ship and all its crew."

"... John Smith, of Pocahontas fame in 1614, who saw a mermaid swimming about with all possible grace. He noted that she had large eyes, a finely shaped nose that was somewhat short, and well-formed ears that were rather too long and that her long green hair imparted to her an original character that was by no means unattractive."

If so we'll include it here.

If so, maybe we'll paste it in here.

Call me Ishmael!