Old English męrewif is also noted, but the word has been applied to a she-troll or sea-hag ( Grendel's mother) and is not well-attested later. Īnother English word "mermin" is older, with Old English attestations, but is now obsolete. The compound word is formed from " mere" (sea), and " maid". The English word "mermaid" is not very old, with the earliest attestation in Middle English ( Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, c. The Fisherman and the Syren, by Frederic Leighton, c. 16.2 Age of Exploration Americas and polar frontiers.
They have subsequently been depicted in operas, paintings, books, comics, animation, and live-action films. Mermaids have been a popular subject of art and literature in recent centuries, such as in Hans Christian Andersen's literary fairy tale " The Little Mermaid" (1836). While there is no evidence that mermaids exist outside folklore, reports of mermaid sightings continue to the present day. Historical accounts of mermaids, such as those reported by Christopher Columbus during his exploration of the Caribbean, may have been sightings of manatees or similar aquatic mammals. The Western concept of mermaids as beautiful, seductive singers may have been influenced by the Sirens of Greek mythology, which were originally half-birdlike, but came to be pictured as half-fishlike in the Christian era. The male and the female collectively are sometimes referred to as merfolk or merpeople. Although traditions about and sightings of mermen are less common than those of mermaids, they are generally assumed to co-exist with their female counterparts. The male equivalent of the mermaid is the merman, also a familiar figure in folklore and heraldry. In other folk traditions (or sometimes within the same traditions), they can be benevolent or beneficent, bestowing boons or falling in love with humans. Mermaids are sometimes associated with perilous events such as floods, storms, shipwrecks, and drownings. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide, including Europe, Asia, and Africa. In folklore, a mermaid is an aquatic creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. If you make a purchase, we may or may not receive a small commission which helps to support this site.John William Waterhouse, A Mermaid (1900). While plain looking, they can really be decorated a ton of different ways and make for an inexpensive craft project. I could collect a lot of bits & pieces and let the girls get creative and come up with their own designs.īuying Note: We purchased our hand mirror at the local Dollar Store and it came with an additional small compact mirror too. They can decorate their mirrors with self-adhesive jewels, stickers, buttons, charms, paints, etc. If you were hosting a birthday party for young girls this would make a great make-n-take birthday party favor for the girls to make. You need all of the glue to be thoroughly dry before using your new Mermaid Hand Mirror. Let all of this dry for several hours to make sure you get a strong bond. To finish it off we added 2 turquoise flower-shaped rhinestones onto the handle of the mirror using craft glue. We went around the entire perimeter of the mirror, added 3 of them down the handle and then accented each side of the seashell motif with a half-pearl. To make sure they wouldn’t fall off after use, we added a dab of quick-drying craft glue for the added protection. We framed out the hand mirror with self-adhesive half-round faux pearls. Hot glue and regular craft glue don’t work well for gluing “weighty” things onto plastic or metal. Seashells are “weighty” so you’ll want to use the E6000 adhesive glue to add them onto the mirror. Make sure they’re thoroughly dry before gluing them onto the back of your hand mirror. It took the paint about 70 minutes to fully dry and we gave each seashell 2 coats of paint.
We painted our 2 scallop seashells with pink metallic-finish acrylic craft paint. Metallic Acrylic Craft Paint (we used pink) If you enjoy painting on seashells or crafting with seashells…you’ll find over 70+ seashell craft projects right here on the Two Classy Chics blog! We will be sharing more seashell craft projects in the future too! Our new mirror was completed in just one afternoon. It was very plain looking, so we decided to turn it into a Mermaid Seashell Hand Mirror with just a few craft supplies that we had on hand. One thing that we picked up was this aqua-colored hand mirror. A few weeks ago my granddaughter and I were shopping at our local Dollar Store and picked up a few things that she needed.
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