Mermaid Tales Mermaid Facts (if mermaids were real) Sighting of mermaids during the centuries were probably manatees (sea cows). Their mermaid-like appearance caused sailors to mistake them when viewing them from afar. Even Christopher Columbus reported seeing ugly and fat mermaids on his first voyage to America. Sirens are vengeful and carnivorous mythical creatures from the Greek pantheon of gods. Even though they were often presented as flying creatures, the Greek myth of water sirens became very popular in the Europe. Mermaids are the female members of the underwater race of merfolk. Males are called mermen and are supposedly ever more shy and secretive than their female counterparts. In almost every story about them they never come to the surface to the ocean. In modern popular culture, there are four types of mermaids. Traditional mermaids that can only live in the sea, skin shedding mermaids that can walk on the land for the short periods of time (most common in Irish folklore), shapeshifting mermaids that can change to the human form at their wish, and entirely human form merfolk that can live on both land and sea.
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