MermaidsSir James Emerson Tennent, speaking of the dugong, a cetacean, says, “Its head has a rude approach to the human outline, and the mother while suckling her young holds it to her breast with one flipper, as a woman holds her infant in her arm. If disturbed she suddenly dives under water, and tosses up her fish-like tail. It is this creature which has probably given rise to the tales about mermaids.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Mermaids from Infoplease:
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