♕A mermaid❤ is a mythological aquatic creature with a female human head and torso and the tail of a fish. Mermaids have a broad representation in folklore, literature, and popular culture. The word is a compound of mere, the Old English word for "sea", and maid, a woman. The male equivalent is a merman. Stories depict them squeezing the life out of drowning men while attempting to rescue them.♡ They are also said to carry humans down to their underwater kingdoms.⇪