The Moroccan “mermaid” tradition in modern cryptozoological writing

Record summary

Late twentieth-century English-language cryptozoological writing sometimes collected Moroccan or North African sea-woman traditions alongside European mermaid accounts. These references are better treated as folklore transmission and comparative motif history than as modern zoological reports. The lead may help trace how Arabic, Amazigh, Iberian and colonial-era narratives were excerpted, translated and reclassified as “sightings.” Researchers should identify the exact printed passage and its older source rather than assume that a modern author’s geographic label represents an independently documented Moroccan encounter.