Sirens

Stories about mermaids existed for centuries and forms a large part of the folklore about supernatural beings water, especially around coastal regions such as Cornwall England or northern islands of Scotland. Seeing sirens was considered bad sign, presaging storms and stormy sea. There are many stories describing their interaction with people.

Sirens description is very similar to the Outer Hebrides in Cornwall. Usually upper body was a beautiful woman with long hair and the waist down was that over. In many of the classic descriptions mermaids sitting on a rock near the shore, combing their hair, singing sweetly and admiring their beauty in a mirror that clasp. Their beautiful song lures men much like the sirens, and the unfortunate victims were either drowned, their world and eaten in the depths of the sea. Mermaids Rock near Lamorna such a place, at the eastern end of Cornwall. It was a place haunted by sirens sing their fishermen, luring them to death. Sometimes mermaids are drawn out of the water for any particular song. Mermaid of Zennor in Cornwall claimed Mathew Trewella due to his beautiful voice.

In some tales mermaids are more willing and have the ability to grant magical powers, but usually it is a high price to pay for that. In ,, STORY LOTEY and the Mermaid Bothrell, traditional tales of West Cornwall SITE  Lotey, a fisherman finds a mermaid stranded on shore while he was walking on the beach. He helps her back to the sea and she offers him three wishes. He chooses to break spells power, the power to compel spirits for the collective good and these powers to pass from him to his followers. It grants the wishes but almost pulls in water just waving a penknife before her  she release her hold. After nine years in which he used his powers of siren turn around after him and take him into the depths. Since then every nine years one of his descendants said he perished at sea.

Although most stories describe sirens to be dependent on the sea, they are not only in marine waters and there are several stories about mermaids who haunt the rivers and deep lakes. Pond-sirens, below Kinder Downfall in Derbyshire is one such location. Mermaid appears on a certain date and usually has a deceptive nature. Black Mere, near Leek in Staffordshire was also thought to be haunted by a mermaid. It is probable that the term siren to describe a wider range of supernatural water creatures.

There is belief in creatures half fish, half man for thousands of years. The first references to these beings is found in the form of the god Oannes, who was lord of the waters worshiped at the beginning of civilization in ancient Babylon. There are several other gods with fish tail, but the classic mermaid known in England is probably derived from Celtic folklore, folklore and stories of local sea, in places where people were in contact with the sea as part of everyday life .

There have been several sightings of mermaids present in the last hundred years, even in the 20th century, especially in places where old traditions die hard. In northern Sandwood Bay in northern Scotland was long believed that mermaids are being reported as recently as the 19th century, today the area is reputed to be by other phenomena, perhaps related in some way with the older sightings. Although these appearances have little credibility can be related to the same mechanism that makes people see ghosts, black dogs, etc.