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Japanese koi fish, also called Japanese carp, are by themselves unremarkable, lackadaisical fish. But every once in a while, one becomes ambitious: if they can jump to the top of a waterfall, they transform into a dragon! This inspired the famed Pokemon Magikarp

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Oh my goodness theme is Sorry, I love them, so you are all going to have to look at my mermaid this evening.

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Always liked this illustration by John Bauer for the story “Agneta and the Sea King”. The fact that one never gets a good look at the Sea King’s face always made that character seem kind of ominous.

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Reverse Mermaid - a humorous spin on this ! 😉
The second image is actually a Magritte that became part of a bizarre press hoax in 1973: https://t.co/vcKfu0WvtZ
(I think we can agree we prefer original mermaids! 🙈)

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The Mock Turtle's Song by
Lewis Carroll

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The Nicole are water spirits on Brittany’s north coast; fairly benign but mischievous, they tangle fishing nets and loosen anchor cables.
Conversely, the south coast was once noted for a most malevolent mermaid who crushed children against rocks for mere sport.

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Hans Christian Andersen's, "The Little Mermaid," illustrated by Edmund Dulac. The colours are sublime. The initiation of females into the world of men whilst their father is absent is what this story symbolises.

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In the Hans Christian Andersen story, the Little Mermaid falls in love with a prince and is willing to give up her life in the sea in order to gain a human soul, become human, and be with him


Art by Kata Kiss

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In Welsh folklore, the Gwragedd Annwn are beautiful female fairies who live beneath lakes and rivers. Also known as Lake Maidens.

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Jörmungandr is the biggest underwater snake in the world. He is also very mean.

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Greek myth had several classes of water spirits: Naiads are fresh bodies of water, Oceanids represent saltwater, and Nereids represent the Mediterranean, to say nothing of sea and river gods. Despite this any nymph can appear in other waters

🖼: J.W. Waterhouse

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Loch Iorsa on the Isle of Arran has it's very own monster myth. The loch's name means 'loch of the snakes/ serpents'. This serpent is perhaps a wurm, a dragon with no legs nor wings from folklore.
🎨 unknown

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Undines are a category of beings associated with water,1st named in the alchemical writings of Paracelsus. Later writers developed the undine into a water nymph, with adaptations like Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" and the Undine of Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

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The Mermaid

A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down
Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown.

-William Butler Yeats

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One of my favourite Cornish folktales is The Mermaid of Zennor. A mermaid falls in love with Mathey Trewella, the best singer of the Parish. One day he decides to live with her, they disappear and are never seen again on dry land. 🌊🧜‍♀️

🎨John Reinhard Weguelin

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The theme of this weeks is River creatures so I thought I would give you one of the best . Sit back and enjoy the Terrible tale of The Afanc .
Time between times storytelling The Afanc told by Owen Staton https://t.co/A5onJwT0mH

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"In fact, the fairies had turned him into a water-baby.
A water-baby? There are no such things.
How do you know that? Have you been there to see? If you had been there to see, and had seen none, that would not prove that there were none."

-The Waterbabies

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The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico is a short about the friendship between a young girl, a hunchback & the eponymous snow goose. A modern of love, loss & courage & the ennobling power of redemption & love. The 3rd picture is by Peter Scott.

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