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Many of these character types come to us from mythology and legend. They generally are combinations of human heads and partial bodies with animal bodies. Well-known examples include mermaids (human from waist up, with a fish tail), centaurs (human head, torso and arms atop a horse body) and nagas (similar to the mermaid, but with a snake lower body).
