Description: The mermaid is supposed to appear on Easter eve and if you see her you will live forever. On the other hand she might take a fancy to you and drag you to your doom. The poet Henry Kirke wrote about her luring a handsome shepherd lad:
'She sang, and stretching out her rounded arms,
She bade him leap and take her for his own -
With one wild cry he leapt, and with a splash
That roused the timid moorhen from her nest,
Sank 'neath the darkling wave for evermore.'