Is not the Mermaid to be found in Greece, and is not the lorelei as Germanic as the Kelpy is Caledonian.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
He sat down alone in the great vacant room-her room, in which every breath brought him some perfume of her, feeling her tantalizing presence in a hundred vanishing shapes twirling about him: in the alcove, a glimpse of pillow and counterpane, where she slept, unconscious of torture and craving; in the swung door of the closet, soft filmy fabrics that seemed yet warm from her body; in the ugly dressing-table, with its musty mirror which seemed reclaimed by the glamour of her reflection; in all the undisciplined touches, in all the poverty-conquering gaiety-her room, her world, into which she had drawn him as the lorelei steals the fisherman from his boat.
"The Salamander"
Owen Johnson
Very many are the stories of the women of the sea and of the rivers, but that one who must forever hold her own, because Heine has immortalised her in song, is the river maiden of the Rhine-the lorelei.
"A Book of Myths"
Jean Lang