ed to be ruled and inhabited by dampen deities, water sprites and nymphs, the Celtic sea-faring and fishing populations related the mermaid with the sea. scoutmaster'sThe 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