Some European languages have assimilated the two concepts entirely for example, the French word for mermaid is sirène, and both the Spanish and Italian use sirena. The siren of Ancient Greek mythology has influenced and overlapped with popular notions of mermaids since medieval times. They are conventionally depicted as beautiful with long flowing hair. The equivalent term in Old English was merewif. The word mermaid is a compound of the Old English mere (sea), and maid (a girl or young woman). The Fisherman and the Syren, by Frederic Leighton, c. 16.2 Age of Exploration Americas and polar frontiers.They have subsequently been depicted in operas, paintings, books, comics, animation, and live-action films. Mermaids have been a popular subject of art and literature in recent centuries, such as in Hans Christian Andersen's literary fairy tale " The Little Mermaid" (1836). While there is no evidence that mermaids exist outside folklore, reports of mermaid sightings continue to the present day. Historical accounts of mermaids, such as those reported by Christopher Columbus during his exploration of the Caribbean, may have been sightings of manatees or similar aquatic mammals. The Western concept of mermaids as beautiful, seductive singers may have been influenced by the Sirens of Greek mythology, which were originally half-birdlike, but came to be pictured as half-fishlike in the Christian era. The male and the female collectively are sometimes referred to as merfolk or merpeople. Although traditions about and sightings of mermen are less common than those of mermaids, they are generally assumed to co-exist with their female counterparts. The male equivalent of the mermaid is the merman, also a familiar figure in folklore and heraldry. In other folk traditions (or sometimes within the same traditions), they can be benevolent or beneficent, bestowing boons or falling in love with humans. Mermaids are sometimes associated with perilous events such as floods, storms, shipwrecks, and drownings. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide, including Europe, Asia, and Africa. In folklore, a mermaid is an aquatic creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. It is hard to beat a person with a stubborn faith and insurmountable will.John William Waterhouse, A Mermaid (1900). And then the inability to work - any savings that there may have been is gone very quickly. Making ends meet is insurmountable, there are so many doctors' appointments, copays, surgeries, prescriptions. Making ends meet is insurmountable, there are so many doctors' appointments, co-pays, surgeries, prescriptions. Shifting costs to' users' of the criminal legal system creates extraordinary hardships for defendants and their families, in addition to erecting sometimes insurmountable barriers to re-entry, legal financial obligations require probation and parole officers to allocate substantial time to acting as collection agents that could otherwise be devoted to rehabilitation and public safety. It's not insurmountable, we can design better vaccines that might overcome this discrepancy.
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