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* Melusine is based on the serpentine water spirit of the same name in European mythology and folklore depicted as a mermaid, often with wings and two tails. | * Melusine is based on the serpentine water spirit of the same name in European mythology and folklore depicted as a mermaid, often with wings and two tails. | ||
* The folklore revolving Melusine is often characterized as her marrying a nobleman only after he makes an oath to give her privacy in her bath; which ultimately ends up being broken and Melusine leaving the nobleman. | * The folklore revolving Melusine is often characterized as her marrying a nobleman only after he makes an oath to give her privacy in her bath; which ultimately ends up being broken and Melusine leaving the nobleman. | ||
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