How the little mermaid met the Prince, and what ensues 🐙

How does regret taste, after glory?

Sirena Divisa

So far this is the only species of mermaid known to have developed two tails. (Mermaid 37/100 | read more)

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Sjörån

Sometimes called the Scandinavian Siren, Sjora or Sjörån are a dangerous and seductive mer believed by some to be not unrelated to Kelpie in their abilities. Far more dangerous and less seductive than Sirens, Sjora are sometimes considered cousins to the Havsrå often seen in Nordic waters, though they are closer in appearance to Källrån, with richly dark green hair, and grey-green tinted skin.

Like Havsrå, Sjora are known to inhabit lakes, which they tend to carefully, protecting the fish of their waters, and other living things within it. Especially large fish are sometimes favoured pets of the Sjora, and their deaths, usually at the hands of fishermen, can bring down mer-sung storms on the ones who did it, as well as bad luck of a magically induced kind akin to the magics of Alver and Far Darrig both.

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(Read about Sjoran Here and Here. I hate that I have to include this but PLEASE DO NOT DELETE THE IMAGE SOURCE OR MY CAPTION.)

Sarah Stilwell Weber

Georges de Feure

Charles Robinson

It is 2:30 am Philip Glass is destroying me emotionally and this will be under WIP status until I can figure out where to go next

A sculpture of a spriggan in London. In Cornish folklore a spriggian is a creature who was grotesquely ugly, and were said to be found at old ruins, guarding buried treasure and generally acting as fairy bodyguards. They were also said to be busy thieves. Though usually small, they had the ability to swell to enormous size. They caused mischief to those who offended them. They sent storms to blight crops, and sometimes stole away mortal children. (Source)

Charles Santore

Illustrations by Anne Anderson (1874-1930)

" I will prepare a draught for you, with which you must swim to land tomorrow before sunrise, and sit down on the shore and drink it. Your tail will then disappear, and shrink up into what mankind calls legs, and you will feel great pain, as if a sword were passing through you.” - Excerpt from the Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen

Done in watercolor.

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Warwick Goble