We have all grown up watching mermaid movies with our parents, and there is nothing wrong if we want to have the same experience with our kids too.
Their strong tails allow them to swim through the water, as fast as a fish and they can leap high out of the water, similar to dolphins. Powers and AbilitiesĪs they are part fish, mermaids can breathe underwater and can stay submerged underwater indefinetly. National Ocean Service stated in 2012 that no evidence of mermaids has ever been found. Christopher Columbus reported seeing mermaids while exploring the Caribbean, and sightings have been reported in the 20th and 21st centuries in Canada, Israel and Zimbabwe. Some of the historical sightings by sailors may have been misunderstood encounters with these aquatic mammals. Mermaids are associated with the mythological Greek sirens as well as with sirenia, a biological order comprising dugongs and manatees. Aquamarine's father (King of the Ocean).In other folk traditions (or sometimes within the same tradition), they can be benevolent or beneficent, bestowing boons or falling in love with humans. Mermaids are sometimes associated with perilous events such as floods, storms, shipwrecks and drownings.
The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria, in which the goddess Atargatis transformed herself into a mermaid out of shame for accidentally killing her human lover. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide, including the Near East, Europe, Africa and Asia. A mermaid is a legendary aquatic creature with the upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish.