Mermaid Question?? HELP ME PLEASE!!

Question

WHat color skin? Color hair? color eyes? what do they wear? ect. What about there vocie? What are facts about them? ect.

Answer 1

Try and use your imagination for a bit, imagine what a fish is like, what it eats, what it does, and what it looks like. Now imagine a person and what they do, now if you mix the two together you should get a rough idea of what a mermaid would look like. Also imagine what you would be like if you were brought up in the sea. A mermaid probably would have gills, fins, eyes that see underwater, ears that can hear underwater and my guess is they would have eaten fish and/or seaweed. Fish can be colourful so mermaids could probably have been any colour.

Answer 2

MERMAID:

A marine creature with the head and upper body of a beautiful young maiden and with the lower body of a fish. She can be found in seas and lakes, or lying on a rock and combing her hair with one hand while holding a mirror in the other. Mermaids sometimes foretell the future and are often accompanied by seals.

According to myth, they lure sailors by singing and with lovely music. They live in a kingdom on the bottom of the sea, and it is here they take their prisoners to. From this story, the fear amongst the sailor grew and they thought that seeing a mermaid would cause bad luck: it could predict death by drowning.

The belief in mermaids is not limited to a few countries, but there are tales from all over the world (in India, for instance, there are the Apsara, beautiful water nymphs). However, most of those tales were told by sailors who "saw" them on their long journeys. The idea of mermaids and mermen, the male equivalent, could be based on creatures from Greek and Babylonian mythology: Sirens and Tritons of the Greeks, and the fish gods, who were half human and half fish, from the Babylonians.

This source is a little more reliable than wikipedia.

Also since mermaids are considered to be half woman half fish not one looks alike their skin color varies just like whole women.

There is also the concept in Mystic Quest by Tracy Hickman that instead of human noses on their faces they have gils that are located where their noses would be.

Some folklorists say that Mermaids are immortal creatures, but it all depends on what you want for your storyline.

Read some of the folklore and it might help:

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Good luck with your writing.

Answer 3

Mermaids can have any hair,skin,eyes. They wear seashell bra like tank tops and a tail. Their voices are always beautiful. Most of them sing at underwater shows. And they live like humans. Up to 100 years old. I am a mermaid so if you need any more help please join my group. Magic.

Answer 4

I'm sorry but there are no "facts" about them. Mermaids do NOT exist in reality. People who cannot separate fact from fiction are scary. I personally would prefer to believe in something that is real rather than something fantastical...like Mermaids. This is nonsense that is solely coming from a popular (and stupid) children's tv show.

This mermaid foolishness really needs to stop!

Answer 5

skin is kind of pale. hair color is usually black. eyes are usually platinum, inhumanly so. i dont know how you describe voices.....i can tell you all the fact if you email me. i dont feel like writing another huge thing about them.

Answer 6

1) they live about three thousands  years   2) there skin can be purple 3)some of them are naked  4) there vocie are lovely  5) poeple where see them since the 1289!!!!!!!!

Answer 7

Mermaids are Nereids - sea nymphs.

See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nereids