Talk:Mermaid/@comment-3302226-20160412123229/@comment-27036092-20160420223719

I've just read on the French Wikipedia page for Starbucks (this is not on the English page, so here's the translation) : "This logo was inspired by the two-tailed mermaid from roman art, symbolizing lust". Well look at what we could have OwO

Also I've checked on the French Wikipedia page for the Melusine, and the original myth IS about a half-snake fairy (but only on Saturdays, otherwise she looks like a normal woman). Then the version from Sassenage, near Grenoble, talks about a kind of mermaid, and the Christian version (diabolized, then) turned her into a flying dragon (hence the wings). Hell, there is even a version that's almost a Kikimora! So I wouldn't say the English Wikipedia page is innacurate, but it is very incomplete. Except I don't know where they got the "two tails" part from...

Edit : I've spent way too much time writing this comment x)