Sketchbook - Merrows

Merrows. Kind of creepy, not-very-pretty fishmen. There seems to be some disagreement about whether or not they have legs.

Like a lot of aquatic faeries they do their share of drowning sailors and brewing storms, but my favorite story is one called "the Soul Cages." It's about a merrow who uses the souls of drowned sailors to light his garden walkways. He doesn't mean any harm by it, he even thinks he's doing them a favor by giving them nice warm jars to stay in out of the cold of the ocean. A man eventually finds out about it, gets him drunk and lets all the souls out of the garden while he's asleep.