Mermaids are mythical marine beings with the head, arms and form of a lady and the tail of a fish. The masculine version of a mermaid is called a merman. Their identity originated from the word mer which means sea. Subordinate to the story or site mermaids can be represented as either good and friendly, troublesome or jolly, or even Catastrophic and controlling. As a rule, mariners are motivated to avoid the mermaids as much as possible and be careful if they see a mermaid. Mermaids prefer to sing a song and comb their beautiful hair. Occasionally they will persuade the mariners to the rocks with their songs or allow an attractive young men to their homes in the deep seas. Obviously, this usually leads to the submerging of humans but in other cases, men remain alive to view the underwater world's palaces. Mermaids stay for a long time but according to the legends mermaids don't have an inspiration. Some of the misfortunes that mermaids are convicted of include warning mariners that the ship is ruined, seducing mariners and causing damage to the ship. Viewing a mermaid is a manifestation of a whirlwind that happens in the sea. Nonetheless, at times mermaids can bring prosperity by giving medicine to people or granting wishes to people. In various stories, they marry humans and stay with humans. It was constantly stated that most unfortunate to do anything unpleasant to mermaids. As a marine creature, the growth of mermaids is affected if they are brought to land. Only the mermaid Merrow is an exception and she sometimes even marries men. Even though some mermaids are portrayed as ugly, they are usually more beautiful. At waist level, mermaids are always beautiful women whereas from below the waist they look like a fish with fins and an overpowering tail. But mermen are untamed and uglier than mermaids and have an insignificant interest in humans. A cape in Cornwall called The Lizard has high ground covered by the sea, with various secret petite enclosures and beaches, just the sort for the region for mermaid tales. Several Cornish people, especially mariners have claimed to have viewed a mermaid and rely on them was comprehensive. They grasped several stories of mermaids which were viewed on the rocks and of mermaids crouching, crying and sobbing on the shore. The mermaids in Cornish tales retain many of the characteristics popular among mermaids. They are lovely and sometimes seen combing their hair and survive for a long time without ageing. Myths of half-human, half-fish creatures go back thousands of years. All have viewed images of mermaids. Sightings were recorded by the ancient Arabs and the Greek Pliny in the year 586 AD. Several medieval mariners declared to have seen them and such incidents happened in the 1900s. The majority of the sightings by mariners were definitely customary marine beings such as the sea cow which looked like a human carrying a baby. Christopher Columbus said that he had seen three mermaids in the ocean in Haiti in January 1493. He said that those creatures came out of the water but were not beautiful. The updated view of mermaids has been influenced by Hans Christian Andersen’s novel The Little Mermaid.
