But some of her waist was full of scales and instead of legs it had a tail, long and fishy. Half was man, half was fish; a strange and magical creature called a Mermaid. The series Stories of Modern Greek Mythology invites us to remember and be fascinated again by the words of other times, words that comforted, companioned, words that tried to explain what once scared or enchanted people. Stories based on our traditions, which were passed down orally from generation to generation.