First Recording of Mer-people
(ancient Khoi-San rock painting in South Africa; Babylonia sea god Ea to gods Poseidon and Neptune; Atargatis Assyrian goddess of the moon, feminine powers and water; One Thousand and One Arabian Nights; Natural History)

Ulysses's Encounter with Sirens 
(nymphs; sirens)

Lorelei of the Rhine River
(geographic features of Germany's Rhine River including Mermaid's Tail) 

Cornwall’s Mermaid Coast
(geographic features of Cornwall including Lizard Peninsula, Mermaid's Rock, and Kynance’s coves; Lutey and the Mermaid) 

Shape-Shifters
(Cornish Morvorens; Scandinavian Finfolk; African/South Americans/Caribbean's Mami Wata; Gaelic Selkies)

Mermaids in Asian Cultures
(Hindu's Maysya; Japan's Ningyo) 

Nice and Not-So-Nice Mermaids
(Neo-Taino nations' Aycayia;  Guam's Sirena Chilota; New Zealand's Marakihau; Amazon's Iara; Slavic Rusalkis)  

Mermaids and Marriage
(Southeastern Asia’s Suvannamaccha; Ireland's Merrow; Scotland's Ceasg; France/Luxembourg/Low Countries of Europe's Melusine)

The Evolution of The Little Mermaid
(Greece's Ondine myth; French author Baron Friedrich De La Motte Fouque novella Undline; Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tale 'The Little Mermaid')