Merlin
a prince of enchanters of the time of the Saxon invasion of England. He was the son of a damsel seduced by a fiend, but Blaise baptized the infant, and so rescued it from the power of Satan. He died spellbound by his mistress Vivian in a hawthorn bush.
MERMAIDS and MERMEN, in the popular folklore of Europe, a class of creatures more or less like human beings, living in the sea, but in some circumstances capable of social relationship with men and women.
MEROË MEROË (mer'ō-ē), a city and state of ancient Ethiopia, in the N. E. part of Africa, corresponding mainly with the district between the Nile and Atbara, N. of Abyssinia. Meroë was the center of the caravan trade between Ethiopia, Egypt, Arabia, northern Africa, and India. There are pyramids the site of ancient Meroë and a small town of same name on the Nile.