{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/prwe/prwe062.htm","path":"neu/eng/prwe/prwe062.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/prwe/prwe062.htm","text":"THE MERMAID OF SEATON.\nNEAR Looe,--that is, between Down Derry and Looe,--there is a little sand-beach called \"Seaton.\"\nTradition tells us that here once stood a goodly commercial town bearing this name, and that when it was in its pride, Plymouth was but a small fishing-village.\nThe town of Seaton is said to have been overwhelmed with sand at an early period, the catastrophe having been brought about,--as in the case of the filling up of Padstow harbour,--by the curse of a mermaid, who had suffered some injury from the sailors who belonged to this port. Beyond this I have been unable to glean any story worth preserving.","title":"Popular Romances of the West of England: Romances of the Mermaids: The Mermaid of Seaton","type":"page"}