Louis

A number of famous people in history were named Louis:. The personal coat of arms of Michaëlle Jean, Canada's Governor General, features two Simbi, mermaid-like spirits from Haitian vodun, as supporters. See Louis de Pointe du Lac. A shield and sword-wielding mermaid (Syrenka) is the official Coat of Arms of Warsaw, the capital of Poland. Louis is also the name of a fictional character in the Vampire novels of Anne Rice. In heraldry, the charge of a mermaid is commonly represented with a comb and a mirror, and blazoned as a 'mermaid in her vanity.' Merfolk were used to symbolize eloquence in speech. Louis is also the name of a salad dressing, see Louis dressing. In the wake of the 2004 tsunami, pictures of fiji mermaids were passed around on the internet as something that had washed up amid the devastation, though they were no more real than Barnum's exibit [5].

Louis is also the name of a Korean pop singer, see Louis (artist). Barnum displayed in his museum a taxidermal hoax called the Feejee (sic) Mermaid. Others have perpetrated similar hoaxes, which are usually papier-mâché fabrications or parts of decease creatures, usually monkeys and fish, stitched together for the appearance of a grotesque mermaid.
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The name is known as Luigi in Italian and Luis in Portuguese, and Spanish. Sirenomelia, also called "mermaid syndrome", is a rare congenital disorder in which a child is born with his or her legs fused together and the genitalia reduced. In English speaking countries the anglicised version Lewis is sometimes used. The males are known as mermen. One such family were the Bourbons, who provided kings of France from 1589 to 1789. They are the females of the merfolk race. In the Middle Ages this was the hereditary given name of French nobles who claimed descent from Clovis (another version of the same name), the first king of the Franks. Mermaids are also fictional creatures in the Dungeons and Dragons game.

Ludwig is composed of the words for "fame" (hlod) and "war" (wig) which may be translated to famous warrior. The name Lori Lemaris was probably drawn from Lorelei rock in the Rhine added to maris, from the Latin mare, meaning ocean. Louis' is the French form of the German name Ludwig. For many years, the comic book superhero Superman had a romantic love interest with a mermaid woman named Lori Lemaris. Pierre Louÿs (born Pierre Louis). Frank Baum (creator of Oz) wrote a novel about merfolk, The Sea Fairies. Morris Louis, painter. L.

Louis Wirth. Mermaids are also featured in the film Hook and the Harry Potter series, specifically in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Louis Vuitton. Even more ambiguous is the mermaid featured on the Starbucks Coffee logo. Louis Sachar. Advertising characters from television commercials include the Chicken of the Sea Mermaid, the cartoon mascot for a brand of tuna. Louis Rukeyser. Also Aquamarine a novel by Alice Hoffman about two 12 year old girls who discover a Sassy teenage mermaid was popular among teen and preteen girls and will be relased as a film in 2006 by Twentieth Century Fox starring Sara Paxton ,Emily Roberts and Jo Jo.

Louis Pasteur. It was about a trio of mermaid sisters named Venus, June and Diana who solve their father's murder. Louis Jordan. A made-for-cable movie, Mermaids, starring Nikita Ager, Sarah Laine and Erika Heynatz aired on the PAX network in 2003. Louis Armstrong. She Creature (2001) featured a villainous mermaid who seemed to have a taste for human flesh and lesbian tendencies. King Louis of Spain. Miranda (1948), starring Glynis Johns, is another popular movie to feature a mermaid.

Duke Louis of Savoy. It starred Amy Yasbeck and Todd Waring, and was later made in to a short lived television series. Emperor Louis IV of the Romans. A made-for-television sequel, Splash, Too[4] followed in 1988. Emperor Louis II of the Romans. Much of the movie revolves around her humorous attempts to conceal her true identity from her lover. Prince Louis de Rohan. She could walk dry land as a human female, but whenever salt water touched her legs they changed into a fish-tail.

King Louis of Portugal. In Splash (1984), starring Daryl Hannah and Tom Hanks, Hannah played a mermaid who fell in love with a man. Prince Louis II of Monaco. The story has been retold in other films and television programs, and regularly features in collections of fairytales. King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia. Anderson's Little Mermaid was immortalized with a famous bronze sculpture in Copenhagen harbour, and was adapted into a Disney movie (The Little Mermaid, 1989). King Louis I of Hungary. Andersen's portrayal has arguably become the standard, and has influenced most modern Western depictions of mermaids since it was published.

King Louis the Child of Germany. This is likely due to the influence of Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale The Little Mermaid (1836), which has been translated into many languages and adapted into various mediums. King Louis the German of Germany. Mermaids are one of the most famous creatures of popular culture, and are depicted regularly in literature and film. King Louis XVIII of France. In some European legends mermaids are said to grant wishes. King Louis XVII of France. It is said in Japan that eating the flesh of a mermaid can grant unaging immortality.

King Louis XVI of France. One freshwater mermaid-like creature from European folklore is Melusine, who is sometimes depicted with two fish tales, and other times with the lower body of a serpent. King Louis XV of France. Examples from other cultures are the Mami Wata of West Africa, the Jengu of Cameroon, the Merrow of Ireland and Scotland, and the Greek Oceanids, Nereids, and Naiads. King Louis XIV of France. Her attributes relate to the goddess Jagua, and the hibiscus flower of the majagua tree Hibiscus tiliaceous [3]. King Louis XIII of France. Among the Neo-Taíno nations of the Caribbean the mermaid is called Aycayía [1] she of the beautiful voice [2].

King Louis XII of France. Lucian of Samosata in Syria (2nd century CE) in De Dea Syria ("Concerning the Syrian Goddess") wrote of the Syrian temples he had visited:. King Louis XI of France. The Greeks recognized Atargatis under the name Derketo, where she was often conflated with Aphrodite. King Louis X of France. Thereafter, she took the form of a mermaid - human above the waist, fish below, though the earliest representations of Atargatis showed her as being a fish with a human head and legs, similar to the Babylonian Ea. King Louis IX of France. Ashamed, she jumped into a lake to take the form of a fish, but the waters would not conceal her divine nature.

King Louis VIII of France. Atargatis, the mother of Assyrian queen Semiramis, was a goddess who loved a mortal shepherd and in the process killed him. King Louis VII of France. 1000 BCE. King Louis VI of France. The first known mermaid stories appeared in Assyria, ca. King Louis V of France. Tales of mermaids are nearly universal.

King Louis IV of France. It has even been posited that the traditional image of a mermaid with long flowing hair could be attributed to manatees breaking the ocean surface underneath patches of seaweed, and giving the unfamiliar observer the impression of having long "hair.". King Louis III of France. It is possible that sailors seeing these unfamiliar beasts for the first time, would assume that they had in fact stumbled across some sort of humanoid species, and consequently spread their accounts of the sightings through their homelands on their return from voyages. King Louis the Stammerer of France. These large aquatic mammals are notable for the way in which they carry their young, cradled in their arms much as a human would carry a baby. King Louis the Pious of France. It has been widely suggested that manatees could be behind the myth of the mermaid.

Prince Louis II de Condé. . Prince Louis-Victor de Broglie. Other related types of mythical or legendary creature are water fairies (e.g., various water nymphs) and selkies). King Louis II of Bavaria. The Sirens of Greek mythology are sometimes portrayed in later folklore and art as being physically similar to mermaids; in fact in some languages the name sirena is used interchangeably for both creatures. King Louis I of Bavaria. Various cultures throughout the world have similar figures.

Duke Louis VI the Roman of Bavaria. The male version of a mermaid is called a merman. A mermaid is a legendary aquatic creature with the head and torso of human female and the tail of a fish.