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Top: Society: Folklore: Literature: Tales: Fabulous_Creatures: Mermaids
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Submitted sites should predominantly include mermaid and merfolk content and similar water-beings found in history, literature, and mythology. Sites may contain folk tales, thesis, social analysis, fan pages, or other traditional folklore related material.
Sites relating predominantly to the fictional, fantasy side of mermaids may be listed under: Arts/Genres/Science_Fiction_and_Fantasy/Themes/Fantasy_Races_and_Creatures/Mermaids. Elsewhere on the ODP, mermaid related information may be found on and submitted to collecting and collectors, fantasy cyber pet adoptions, and shops selling collectibles. If your site doesn't meet the above criteria, and is submitted here anyway, inclusion in the directory can be delayed by the sorting process. Please try to find the most specific category for your site before submitting. Thank you, and please enjoy submitting your website. |
Mermaids are commonly half woman (head, arms, and torso) and half fish-like (the midsection and below). In traditional folklore other mer beings or merfolk may be men, spirits, dieties, or have traits more animal than humanoid. Theorized origins of the mermaid range from belief to the health disorder sirenomelia to misconstrued sightings of sea mammals such as the dugong who some believe to be the source of the mermaid legends.
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