Mermaids in popular culture

Mermaids, like many other creatures of mythology and folklore, are regularly depicted in literature, film, music, and popular culture.

In the folklore of some modern cultures, the concept of the siren has been assimilated to that of the mermaid.

For example, the French word for mermaid is sirène, Italian sirena, and similarly in certain other European languages.

This usage existed by the Middle Ages.

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People dress in mermaid costumes for events such as parades .
An illustration from a 1913 reprinting of Hans Christian Andersen 's 1837 fairy tale The Little Mermaid
The cover of Yevgeny Zamyatin 's 1913 Russian-language novel A Provincial Tale
The March 1949 issue of Fantastic Adventures features the story "The Mermaid of Maracot Deep".
Several stories in Andrew Lang's Fairy Books feature mermaids.
An illustration of Vanity Fair ' s Becky Sharp as a man-killing mermaid , by the work's author William Thackeray .
Annette Kellerman (left) as the titular mermaid in the 1918 film Queen of the Sea
The 1941 Dutch East Indies film Ikan Doejoeng featured mermaids.
The 1952 film Million Dollar Mermaid is based on the life of Annette Kellerman , the first actress to portray a mermaid swimming in film.
Sheet music cover for "Mermaids' Song" by Charles Kinkel, which was featured in the 1826 opera Oberon by Carl Maria von Weber