Mermaid Mythology is a fictional book that appears in the episode "Hocus Pocus".
History[]
Mermaid Mythology was published in 1908 in limited print. Lewis found the book on the internet and bought it. He theorized that the book's information is true, and that it was published as fiction to get the info out as a "mermaid manual" of sorts.
The book contains true information about mermaid powers: on how to control them, enhance them, and even how to get new ones. There are also recipes on potions that mermaids can use, like a "Wish Giving Potion". Cleo and Lewis were determined to test it out and got Emma and Rikki involved too.
The book was not seen after the botched potion batch spread throughout the JuiceNet Café.
Wish Granting Potion Recipe:[]
- 2 spoon fulls of Golden algae
- 1 tuft of unnamed deep sea seaweed
- ½ of cup of 3 different types reef fungus (unspecified)
- Three mermaid powers (specifically, presumably, Hydrokinesis, Hydro-Cryokinesis, and Hydro-Thermokinesis) must be used on it simultaneously, and equally
- The mix must be smeared on the face of a merperson while in their merperson form; it will not work while in human form
- A wish can be made by others, intentionally or not: either out loud, or only thinking of it. It may take a while for the wish to be granted.
Trivia[]
- It is unknown who its author is, whether they were a merperson themselves, and how, if they were not, they had accurate knowledge of merpeople and their magic.
- The book's cover is based on an illustration (titled either "Mermaid riding a Fish" or "Mermaid riding a Dolphin") by English book illustrator Arthur Rackham used in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Coincidentally, his illustrated first edition was also published in 1908.[1]
- The text used in the book is an excerpt from German writer Johann von Goethe's poem Hermann and Dorothea.[2]
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