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Podcast: In the Weeds
Episode: So You Think You Know What a Mermaid Is...
Description: As co-editors of The Penguin Book of Mermaids, a compendium of stories from all over the world, Marie Alohalani Brown and Cristina Bacchilega show us that mermaids are not always white, not always beautiful and don’t even always have a fish tail (sometimes mer creatures have the tail of a whale or an anaconda). What they also teach us is that legends of merfolk and other kinds of water spirits exist pretty much everywhere that people do.What is so fundamental about these myths of hybrid creatures that bridge the human world and the wat...