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mermaid
A young woman with a fish tail in place of legs. Mermaids love to sing and charm their audience.
... To the Sirens first shalt thou come, who beguile all men whosoever comes to them. Whoso in ignorance draws near to them and hears the Sirens' voice, he nevermore returns, that his wife and little children may stand at his side rejoicing, but the Sirens beguile him with their clear-toned song, as they sit in a meadow, and about them is a great heap of bones of mouldering men, and round the bones the skin is shrivelling.
-Homer, _The Odyssey_, Book XII
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