@article{913815,
      author = {Bacchilega, Cristina, and Brown, Marie Alohalani,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/913815},
      title = {The Penguin book of mermaids /},
      abstract = {Among the oldest and most popular mythical beings,  mermaids and other merfolk have captured the imagination  since long before Ariel sold her voice to a sea witch in  the beloved Disney film adaptation of Hans Christian  Andersen's "The Little Mermaid." As far back as the eighth  century BC, sailors in Homer's Odyssey stuffed wax in their  ears in order to resist the Sirens who lured men to their  watery deaths with song. More than two thousand years  later, the gullible New York public lined up to witness a  mummified "mermaid" specimen that the enterprising showman  P.T. Barnum swore was real. The Penguin Book of Mermaids is  a  treasury of such tales about merfolk and water spirits  from different cultures, ranging from the Scottish selkies  to Hindu water-serpents to Chilean sea fairies. A third of  the selections are published here in English for the first  time, and all are accompanied by commentary that explores  their undercurrents, showing how public perceptions of this  popular mythical hybrid at one a human and a fish  illuminate issues of gender, spirituality, ecology, and  sexuality.},
      recid = {913815},
      pages = {xxix, 330 pages ;},
}