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Merfolk or merpeople are legendary water-dwelling human-like beings. Female merfolk may be referred to as mermaids, although in a strict sense mermaids are confined to beings who are half-woman and half-fish in appearance. Male merfolk are called mermen."Merfolk," in Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

A mermaid sitting on a rock, combing her hair — A mermaid.

Prose Fiction

"Abdallah the Fisherman and Abdallah the Merman," from The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night
"Melusina," by Thomas Keightley (1850)
"The Mermaid's Home," by John Cargill Brough (1857)
"The Little Mermaid," by Hans Christian Andersen (1888)
The Mermaid, by Lily Dougall (1895)
Mermaidens, by Sarah Tytler (1895)
Mermaid of Inish Uig, by R. W. K. Edwards (1898)
The Sea Lady, by H. G. Wells (1902)
"The Golden Mermaid," edited by Andrew Lang
"The Mermaid and the Boy," edited by Leonora Blanche Lang (1904)
The Sea Fairies, by L. Frank Baum (1911)
"Susan and the Mermaid," by Pamela Colman Smith (1912)
Wet Magic, by Edith Nesbit (1913)
"The Mermaid," by George A. Birmingham (1914)
"The Good Ferryman and the Water Nymphs," by Antoni Józef Gliński, translated by Maude Ashurst Biggs (1920)
"Bells of Oceana" by Arthur J. Burks. in Weird Tales, 10 (6) (December 1927)
"Sea-Tiger," by Henry S. Whitehead (1932)

Verse

"Clerk Colvill," traditional ballad (Child 42)
"Mermaid," traditional ballad (Child 289)
"The Mermaid," from the German by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1817)
"The Fairy of the Fountains," by Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834)
"The Merman," by Alfred Tennyson (1843)
"The Mermaid," by Alfred Tennyson (1843)
"Goldfin and Silvertail," by Louisa May Alcott (1867)
"The Little Brother," by Dora Sigerson Shorter (1893)
"The Mermaid," by Benjamin Franklin King (1894)
"The Forsaken Merman," by Matthew Arnold (1897)
"The Mermaid's Song," by Thomas Fleming Day (1898)
"The Mermaid," by Bernard Westermann (1913)
"Sailor," by Robert E. Howard
"City in the Sea" by Edgar Daniel Kramer (1937)
"The Mermaid" by Leah Bodine Drake (1952)

Drama

Merman & mermaid, grand operatic phantasmagoria by Erwin E. Harder (1914)

Non-fiction

"Mermaid," by Ernest Ingersoll in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
"Mermaids," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
"Mermaids and Mermen," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Melusina," by Sabine Baring-Gould (1866)