A Mermaid is an aquatic creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. They appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide, including Europe, Asia, and Africa. The “Siren” of Ancient Greek Mythology had been combined with “Mermaids” during the medieval period. In the early Greek period, the sirens were considered as human-headed birds, but by the classical period, the Greeks occasionally depicted the siren as ‘part fish' in art. The siren's part-fish appearance became increasingly popular during the Middle Ages. And the traits of the classical sirens, such as using their beautiful song as a lure has often been transferred to mermaids. The earliest text describing the siren as fish-tailed occurs in the Liber Monstrorum de diversis generibus (7th–mid 8th century), which described sirens as "sea girls" (marinae pullae) whose beauty and sweet song allure sailors, but beneath the human head and torso, they have the scaly tail-end of a fi...
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