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Index
Cover
About the Authors
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Acknowledgments
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
A Legend from the Black Isle
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
Three Estonian Water Spirits
Three Tales (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 Cultures
African Mermaids and Other Water Spirits
Aganju and Yemaja
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
The 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 Hawaii
The Mermaid of Honokawailani Pond
Kalamainu‘u, the Mo‘o Who Seduced Puna‘aikoa‘e
Water Beings of South America
The Fisherman’s Water-Jug and Potato1
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 Who Lived in a Lake
How Two Girls Were Changed to Water-Snakes
Ne Hwas, the Mermaid
Legend of the Fish Women (Mermaids)
The Woman Who Married the Merman
Notes
Copyright Extension
Index
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