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.

Very interesting fact) Indeed, I never thought about how she was able to climb the tree)

My favorite book as a child was a collection of Pushkin's poems.Beautiful green over-sung and glossy white pages with beautiful illustrations.And mermaid sits on the tree was a usual thing 😂

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

I read that in Rus' the mermaids were not considered attractive: they were too thin and did not have magnificent seductive forms. The purpose of the mermaids was to tickle the victim