What country do mermaids come from?

Answer 1

The legends about mermaids comes to us through time. Many of the stories began in Ireland where they were called Silkies and the story goes that seals are mermaids. One night a year they come ashore shedding their skin and a human can put on the skin becoming a silkie or they can take the skin of a silkie keeping them human. The legend goes on to say that there is no great love than the love of a silkie. Stories like this come from the ages of time and from various places. Writers like Hans Christian Anderson wrote stories like the Little Mermaid in the 1800's that has come to us through Disney. But mermaids are just Fairy Tales and do not exist.

Answer 2

They came from myths of ancient Greeks and Celts. They were used to explain things in life that people didn't understand.

Answer 3

There is no such thing as a mermaid...

Answer 4

I think mermaids came from the moonpool..