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Collier Twentyman Smithers - A Race with Mermaids and Tritons, 1895 (detail)  via

King Neptune (1932)

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Cathleen Nesbitt and Shirley Temple in Shirley Temple's Storybook television show, 1961.

“Every moment the witch cast something fresh into the cauldron.”  Illustration by Laura Trowbridge Hope for English Illustrated, 1891.

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RUSALKA
[noun]

Slavic mythology: (plural: rusalki or rusalky) a female ghost, water nymph, succubus, or mermaid-like demon that dwelt in a waterway. According to most traditions, the rusalki were fish-women, who lived at the bottom of rivers. In the middle of the night, they would walk out to the bank and dance in meadows. If they saw handsome men, they would fascinate them with songs and dancing, mesmerise them, then lead them away to the river floor to their death.

 Mermaid, Anna Vinogradova

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Chéri Hérouard dor La Vie Parisienne magazine, August, 1915

Joining the mermaids.  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1882.

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1963 Plymouth Barracuda

A Book of Mermaids by Ruth Manning-Sanders

E.P. Dutton & Co (1968)

Illustrations by Robin Jacques

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A stroll at the beach

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