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    MERMAID TAILS

    Sep 09, 2019 2 minutes
    By Patricia Furtado de Mendonça
    Why have mermaids, for so many centuries, aroused such immense fascination across cultures?
    –Patricia Furtado de Mendonça

    Why have mermaids aroused such intense fascination across cultures for so many centuries? These are legendary aquatic creatures that appear, since antiquity, in different folklore and mythological traditions around the world, usually represented as beings that are

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