I became interested in Melusine when an old boss of mine started to calling me by the name. I never did find out why. But I did decide to find out more and I’ve always been fascinated by mermaids! Melusine is a water fairy in European folklore - a feminine spirit of fresh waters in sacred springs and rivers. She is usually depicted as a serpent or fish from the waist down – a kind of mermaid. The "Lady of the Lake" in the legends of Kind Arthur who spirited away the infant Lancelot and raised the child,was just such a water nymph . Water fairies and mermaids are considered seductive and dangerous to humans, especially men! There are many Melusine legends. The chronicler Giraud le Cambrien reported that Richard I of England was fond of claiming he was a descendant of a countess of Anjou who was supposed to be the fairy Melusine. Richard used to tell the tale and finish with a flourish, concluding that his whole family "came from the devil" and would return to the...