23+ Mythology Mermaid Legend Background. You may be looking for other things named mermaids. Scottish mythology includes the ceasg (maid of the wave), which has the form of a woman above the waist and the tail of a salmon below the waist.
While some considered mermaids to be divine, others believed they were harbingers of disaster.
The cornish knew mermaids as merry maids. Some legends say that the mermaid is a being from the lost land and time of atlantis. Mermaids are legendary, aquatic creatures with the head, arms and torso of a human female and the tail of a fish. In chile, the mythological king of the sea was called millalobo, who was half man, half sea lion.
