Apparently Human Merfolk: Difference between revisions

* This is the typical form of mermaids in the [[Arabian Nights]] and other Middle Eastern folklore; the only difference between them and land-dwelling humans is that they (and in one story, their children with humans) can breathe underwater.

* [[Selkies and Wereseals|Selkies]] of Faroese and [[Scotireland|Scotirish]] folklore wear a sealskin as a wetsuit and take human form when they shed it. The Faroese story "The Seal Wife" is about a man who steals a selkie woman's wetsuit and locks it up so that she can't go back to the sea.

 

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== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' gives us Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, parody [[Expy|Expies]] of Aquaman and Aqualad.

 

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