A mummy is a corpse whose skin and flesh have been preserved by either intentional or incidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air when bodies are submerged in bogs. Mummies of humans and other animals have been found throughout the world, both as a result of natural preservation through unusual conditions, and as cultural artifacts to preserve the dead.
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A mermaid is a fictional aquatic creature with the head and torso of human female and the tail of, in most schools of thought, a fish, although their horizontal fin structure would be more indicative of an aquatic mammal. Various cultures throughout the world have similar figures. The names come from the French mere and/or Latin mare~is; in the obsolete sense 'sea'. This is combined with the Germanic root maid.
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