Many famous literary works have their unexpected secrets and secret stories.
 
- "RUSLAN AND LUDMILA" by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin.

Have you never been confused by Pushkin's line: "a mermaid sits on the branches"?
How did she get up there with her tail?
The image of a mermaid, who is half woman and half fish, is a legacy of Western European culture.
However, the Western mermaid and the mermaid from Russian folklore are completely different characters.

Most often the mermaid in Russian tradition is portrayed as a dorodny, beautiful, young woman with a pale face and long green hair.
Her main amusement is sitting on tree branches and combing her hair.

But if the mermaids are magical, why don't they jump, like a dolphin, to climb a tree?

May be mermaids also can to cast a spell (koldovat’) and by magic rise into the air