A mermaid is a mythological aquatic creature with a human head and torso and the tail of an aquatic animal such as a fish. The word is a compound of mere, the Old English word for "sea," and maid, a woman. The male equivalent is a merman, however the term mermaid is sometimes used for males. Various cultures throughout the world have similar figures, typically depicted without clothing.

Much like sirens, mermaids would sometimes sing to people and gods and enchant them, distracting them from their work and causing them to walk off the deck or run their ships aground. Other stories have them squeezing the life out of drowning men while attempting to rescue them. They are also said to take humans down to their underwater kingdoms. In Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid it is said that they forget that humans cannot breathe underwater, while others say they drown men out of spite.

The sirens of Greek mythology are sometimes portrayed in later folklore as mermaid-like; in fact, some languages use the same word for both bird and fish creatures, such as the Maltese word 'sirena'. Other related types of mythical or legendary creatures are water fairies (e.g. various water nymphs) and selkies, animals that can transform themselves from seals to humans.

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I'm trying with the title itself to tell the reader that what I'm trying to do with my "mermaids" are more than what they expect them to be. "My mermaids" are not like the info above this describe them to be, like they have no knowledge whatsoever of the world besides the sea. But mine do, they have the knowledge of both their world and the human world, with rules and laws of their own which they must follow and politics views, cultural views and that sort of stuff that makes "us" actually be "civilized".

This story was going to be a trilogy actually ever since I thought about it. And perhaps I will in the future if they ever get published; they will be "The More Than Fins Series" the first one would be "More Than Fins: Marina & the Wizard of the Sea" starting with our main character Marina at age 14, her grandmother gets sick and she tries to look for this Wizard that is the only one that has the cure to it. Then, "More Than Fins: Marina & the Curse of the Pearl" which would be in Marina's 15th birthday, she gets a pearl as a present for herself and the pearl has a curse and she has to reverse it then it would be this story that I'll be writing which will be "More Than Fins: Marina & the Human World". Then I would make a book about every single law and a dictionary with the mer-words and then a Prequel of her grandmother's life (I'm actually thinking of making it into a diary "More Than Fins:Ino's Diary" will be called). She, above any other mermaid knows more about humans since she would get herself in trouble so that she could be save by humans and live among them for a week. Of course, this things I cannot explain to you or I would be telling a huge amount of the plot in this story, but I promise you will find out! If you continue on reading, that is...:)