merman
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A merman (: mermen; also merlad or merboy in youth), the male counterpart of the mythical female mermaid, is a legendary creature which is human from the waist up and fish-like from the waist down, but may assume normal human shape. Sometimes mermen are described as hideous and other times as handsome.
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- Mythical creature.name
- Merman
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- A Crowned Merman, by Arthur Rackham
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- Mythological
- Mythical creature.Sub_Grouping
- Water spirit
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- Antiquity
- Greco-Roman mythology
- Medieval period
- Marmennill
- Hafstrambr
- Early cartography
- Renaissance period
- Gesner's sea-satyr
- Scandinavian folklore
- Marbendill
- Havmand
- Prophesying
- Abductions
- English folklore
- Celtic folklore
- China and Japan
- Hairen or kaijin
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- In heraldry
- Hoaxes and sideshows
- Literature and popular culture
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A merman (: mermen; also merlad or merboy in youth), the male counterpart of the mythical female mermaid, is a legendary creature which is human from the waist up and fish-like from the waist down, but may assume normal human shape. Sometimes mermen are described as hideous and other times as handsome.
== Antiquity == Perhaps the first recorded merman was the Assyrian-Babylonian sea-god Ea (called Enki by the Sumerians), linked to the figure known to the Greeks as Oannes. However, while some popular writers have equated Oannes of the Greek period to the god Ea (and to Dagon), Oannes was rather one of the apkallu servants to Ea.