MERMEN AND OTHER STORIES BY JANE YOLEN AND SHULAMITH OPPENHEIM Universes Beyond They are both part of

They are both part of the natural world and - at the same time - something beyond nature

the mermaid is joined by a mysterious plague doctor with a darkness of their own

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Ancient naturalists spoke of a bird that crocodiles would willingly let into their mouths to eat leeches

MERMEN AND OTHER STORIES BY JANE YOLEN AND SHULAMITH OPPENHEIM Universes Beyond They are both part ofMermen? Yes. Long before mermaids emerged to people our inner seas, long before they established their restless, inviting niche in human fantasy, there was the merman. Born of the human need to dominate the great fruitful oceans, to control the vast destructive seas, to regulate the healing rains, to understand the tides, the merman emerged. The merman was water personified. The imposing water gods could be wheedled, cozened, implored, butin the