1. If you eat the flesh of a mermaid you become immortal.
2. The mermaid, or syrenka, is the symbol of Warsaw
3. In Greek Mythology the Sirens were the companions of Persephone, turned into birds by Demeter, her grieving mother for refusing to say what happened to her daughter after she was abducted by Hades. Over time mythology changed the sirens to 1/2 bird 1/2 fish and eventually they became the familiar woman/fish hybrid of the mermaid.
4. Alexander the Great's sister Thessalonike supposedly became a mermaid after she died.
5. In 2009 the government of Kiryat Yam, a town in Israel offered a $1 million reward for the first person to photograph the mermaid that was being spotted by locals. http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090813-bad-mermaid.html
6. The oldest form of the mermaid found in mythology is the goddess Atargatis from Syria.
7. There is a mermaid illustration in the mysterious and still untranslated Voynich Manuscript
8. Medieval mermaids were often depicted as having two tails and this symbol can be seen all over the world - Do you know where?
9. Shark egg cases found washed up on the beach are commonly called Mermaid's purses
10. The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen is a copy; the sculptor’s heirs keep the original at an undisclosed location
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