This curse could be passed down for many generations, each bearing children of their own shortly before their latent fishiness begins to emerge. More attracted to human men than their own weird-looking fish guys, a Merrow woman could come onto land by wearing a magical, red cap, take a human husband and bear only subtly odd children.until their fish-like traits became increasingly pronounced with age, and they found the underwater world impossible to resist.
In Ireland, some merfolk were referred to as Merrow, the females of which had the classic human-like upper bodies in contrast the scalier and more monstrous males, who even had more "Black Lagoon" style humanoid legs in some depictions. Interchangeable with the originally bird-like sirens by at least the middle ages, it's often assumed that a mermaid's voice is irresistibly seductive or simply hypnotizing to mortal humans, drawing them into the water where they either inevitably drown or are actively killed by the merfolk sometimes because the creatures love to amass treasure, sometimes because they crave human flesh, sometimes because they just plain love killing people and sometimes all of the above. But if we are to emphasize their "horror" for the purposes of Hallow's eve, classical mermaids come with plenty of it.
I would go so far as to propose that even the most sanitized and wholesome merfolk are as much "spooky creatures" as any witch, werewolf or ghost, with no additional horror motifs necessary. They've been a popular Halloween costume for as long as Halloween costumes have existed, and though presented as one of the "non-scary" costumes, they rest firmly in the category of a supernatural monster, and we have countless fairy tales, films, video games and cartoons to tell us that they're certainly not a monster to be trifled with. Maybe some of you have forgotten however that mermaids have always belonged to Halloween. The 2010's brought an explosion of them not just to every artistic medium but to every holiday season, and it's now relatively common to at least find mermaid skeletons as part of the usual Halloween decor, along with the occasional mermaid witch, or even just a living, non-sorcerous mermaid hanging out with a few pumpkins and ghosts. Now, we see them more than ever and in far, far more contexts. They've never really stopped being wildly popular, no, but it feels as if they somehow still went "more mainstream" in recent years, as if they had been taken for granted for decades before society suddenly screeched to a halt and said "wait a minute. The role of mermaids in our popular culture is an interesting one.
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