mermaid

  • The Mermaid of Haarlem

    The Mermaid of Haarlem

    If you are ever in Haarlem, Holland – you might be lucky enough to see the statue of a mermaid on the Oerkapkade. I’ll be honest with you, I have lived in Holland for more than 12 years, and I have never heard about a Dutch mermaid before, nor have most Dutch people. But why…

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  • The Symbol of the Mermaid

    A mermaid is a mythical sea-dwelling creature, often described as having the head and body of a woman and fish’s tail below the waist. Whoever looks into the water sees his own image, but behind it living creatures soon loom up; fishes, presumably, harmless dwellers of the deep-harmless, if only the lake were not haunted.…

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