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Mermaid Mythology: Guide

Selected Books & eBooks

Fan Phenomena: Mermaids by Matthieu Guitton
Call Number: USG Libraries
ISBN: 1783205911
Publication Date: 2016-04-15
Making a Splash by Philip Hayward
Call Number: Online Access
ISBN: 9780861967247
Publication Date: 2017-01-30
Mermaids by Sophia Kingshill
Call Number: USG Libraries
ISBN: 1908213264
Publication Date: 2015-05-18
Mermaids by Virginia Schomp; Kathryn Hinds
Call Number: USG Libraries
ISBN: 9780761449249
Publication Date: 2013-08-01
Mermaids by Virginia Loh-Hagan
Call Number: Online Access
ISBN: 1634722159
Publication Date: 2017-01-01
Mythical and Fabulous Creatures by Malcolm South
Call Number: USG Libraries
ISBN: 9780313243387
Publication Date: 1987-03-12
The Penguin Book of Mermaids by Cristina Bacchilega and Marie Alohalani Brown, eds.
Call Number: USG Libraries
ISBN: 0525505571
Publication Date: 2019
The Pleasures of Metamorphosis by Lucy Fraser
Call Number: USG Libraries
ISBN: 9780814342442
Publication Date: 2017-06-05
Sacred Waters by Henry John Drewal (Editor)
Call Number: USG Libraries
ISBN: 9780253351562
Publication Date: 2008-12-08
Scaled for Success by Philip Hayward (Editor)
Call Number: Online Access
ISBN: 0861969480
Publication Date: 2018-07-26
Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee
Call Number: Online Access
Publication Date: 1883
From Mouse to Mermaid by Elizabeth Bell (Editor); Lynda Haas (Editor); Laura Sells (Editor)
Call Number: Online Access and PN1999 .W27 F76 1995 9 (Brunswick)
ISBN: 9780253329059
Publication Date: 1995
Music of the Sirens by Linda Phyllis Austern (Editor); Inna Naroditskaya (Editor)
Call Number: Online Access
ISBN: 1282072889
Publication Date: 2014-03-28

Engraving by J. Pass, 1817. From Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Selected Juvenile Books

How to Catch a Mermaid by Adam Wallace; Andy Elkerton (Illustrator)
Call Number: Online Access
ISBN: 9781492662488
Publication Date: 2018-07-01
The Little Mermaid by Hans Andersen; Lisbeth Zwerger (Illustrator); Anthea Bell (Translator)
Call Number: PZ8 .A542 Lit 2004
ISBN: 0698400011
Publication Date: 2004-09-09
Lola: The Bracelet of Courage by Sarah Cullen
ISBN: 0645365017
Publication Date: 2021
The Mermaid by Jan Brett (Illustrator)
Call Number: USG Libraries
ISBN: 9780399170720
Publication Date: 2017-08-22
Mermaid Kenzie by Charlotte Watson Sherman; Geneva Bowers (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781635923100
Publication Date: 2022-01-18
Oona by Kelly DiPucchio; Raissa Figueroa (Illustrator)
Call Number: USG Libraries
ISBN: 0062982249
Publication Date: 2021-01-12
Sukey and the Mermaid by Robert D. San Souci; Brian Pinkney
Call Number: USG Libraries
ISBN: 0027781410
Publication Date: 1992-04-30

Selected Articles in GALILEO

"But the Mermaid Did Not Rise Up": The Death of a Simbi in the Carolina Lowcountry
Brown, R.M. (2010). Southern Quarterly, 47(4). 120-150.
"Living Water" in Nguni Healing Traditions, South Africa
Bernard, P.S. (2013). Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture & Ecology, 17(2). 138-149.
The Little Mermaid
Mortensen, F.H. (2008). Scandinavian Studies, 80(4). 437-454.
Mami Wata and the Occluded Feminine in Anglophone Nigerian-Igbo Literature
Krishnan, M. (2012). Research in African Literatures, 43(1).
Of Mermaids and Changelings: Human Rights, Folklore and Contemporary Irish Language Poetry
Fhrighil, R.N. (2017). Estudios Irlandeses - Journal of Irish Studies.107
Sacred Waters: Arts for Mami Wata and Other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora
Kasfir, S.L. (2012). African Arts, 45(1).
Surgical Humanization in H. C. Andersen's “The Little Mermaid”
Yamato, L. (2017). Marvels & Tales. 31(2). 295-312.
Weeki Wachee Girls and Buccaneer Boys: The Evolution of Mermaids, Gender, and 'Man versus Nature' Tourism
Kokai, J.A. (2011). Theatre History Studies, 31. 67.

Illustration from the story Susan and the Mermaid, published in The Delineator, December 1912.

Websites & Online Resources

Becoming Mermaids
American Museum of Natural History
Are mermaids real?
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
From Mermaids to Manatees: The Myth and the Reality
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Smithsonian

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