Mermaids: The Myths, Legends, and Lore

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Dive into a beautifully illustrated guide to mermaid myths, legends, and lore from around the world.

Discover the myths, legends, and lore behind everyone’s favorite sea creature—mermaids.

The allure and mystery of mermaids has taken hold of our psyche for ages. From the Irish merrows who come on land to search for human husbands to the infamous Fiji Mermaid made popular by P.T. Barnum, these sea maidens (and sometimes men) appear throughout folklore and mythology across cultures.

Inside this captivating collection, complete with beautiful illustrations, you’ll uncover mermaid folklore, explore symbols and themes linked to these mythical sea creatures, and read mermaid tales and ocean legends that have enchanted people for centuries. From mermaid history to myths from around the world, this comprehensive mermaid guide is both a fascinating read and a perfect gift for sea lovers.

Mermaids invites you to explore the world of sea mythology—get swept away by the magic of the deep.
Dive into a beautifully illustrated guide to mermaid myths, legends, and lore from around the world. Discover the myths, legends, and lore behind everyone’s favorite sea creature—mermaids. The allure and mystery of mermaids has taken hold of our psyche for ages. From the Irish merrows who come ...

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5 reviews
Jennifer Graziano
June 14, 2025
Normal challenges are not to be disturbed; at all touched, or have own domain entered. It's a master and leader of own life. Breathing is mastered by the toddler year because growing out of the word is the only way to bigger ones behind them. Meditating: yoga, walking and talking the same year provide strength for own schedule of busy people. Combining the words science and religion for 'let there be light" are required for psychiatrist's evaluation result of normal - defends own money well - being. To get normal results from the doctors is the only survival. These is not more from them then normal or not.
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Kurynn Willis
May 6, 2026
love this book it actually makes sense and has some Greek mythology names and Greek gods and goddess in the book and some Christians holy bible names as well. this book will be good for people that are beingers that wants to learn mermaids and sirens folklore and legends. it also explains shapeshifting female seal to human and to seal that movie it also explains. and this will be a amazing book for colleges that allows or do folklore studies / classes. cause it says that mermaids are more common then mermans in ine of the chapter s and that mermans are more rare to see thwn a mermaids and its very detailed that it also explains more of the past also when sailors thought they saw a mermaid
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Anastasiia Omelianchenko
August 2, 2026
There's a lot of repetition, but I learned a lot of new things, thank you.
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About the author

Skye Alexander is the award-winning author of more than thirty fiction and nonfiction books, including Your Goddess Year, The Only Tarot Book You’ll Ever Need, The Modern Guide to Witchcraft, The Modern Witchcraft Spell Book, The Modern Witchcraft Grimoire, The Modern Witchcraft Book of Tarot, and The Modern Witchcraft Book of Love Spells. Her stories have been published in anthologies internationally, and her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. The Discovery Channel featured her in the TV special, Secret Stonehenge, doing a ritual at Stonehenge. She divides her time between Texas and Massachusetts.
Skye Alexander is the award-winning author of more than thirty fiction and nonfiction books, including Your Goddess Year, The Only Tarot Book You’ll Ever Need, The Modern Guide to Witchcraft, The Modern Witchcraft Spell Book, The Modern Witchcraft Grimoire, The Modern Witchcraft Book of Tarot, an...

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