
The mermaid may be said to symbolise the wraithlike female element, whose habitat is the unknown and dangerously evocative realm of the unconscious.
The additional spontaneous double-tailed mermaid, which decorates infinite churches and cathedrals right through Western Europe, is an awfully archaic adaptation of the mermaid that is often connected with Sheela-Na-Gig, one of the nearly all powerful Celtic symbols of the female or deity
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