Mermaids / Mermen - Learn About People of the Sea

Read about "Pergrin and the Mermaiden," from "The Welsh Fairy Book," by W. Jenkyn Thomas. "ONE fine September afternoon, about the beginning of the eighteenth century, a fisherman of St. Dogmael’s, whose name was Pergrin, was rowing in his boat near Pen Cemmes. Looking up at the rocks casually, he thought he saw a maiden in a recess of the cliff."

Read "The Little Mermaid," by Hans Christian Anderson. "Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects."

Read "Lines on a Mermaid Tavern," by John Keats.