Ingo chronicles

The sailors obliged, and quickly set sail, believing the mermaid to be an ill omen. Soon after, a mermaid appeared, and asked that the anchor be raised, as one of its flukes was resting on her door, and she was unable to reach her children.

The villagers wondered what had become of the two, until one Sunday a ship cast anchor about a mile from Pendour Cove. After many years, the mysterious woman became interested in a young man named Mathey Trewella, “the best singer in the parish.” One day he followed her home, and disappeared neither was ever seen again in Zennor Church. She appeared infrequently for scores of years, but never seemed to age, and nobody knew whence she came, although they watched her from the summit of Tregarthen Hill.

The parishioners were enchanted by her beauty and her voice, for her singing was sweeter than all the rest. Senara’s Church in Zennor, and sometimes at Morvah. Long ago, a beautiful and richly-dressed woman occasionally attended services at St. Mythology Meme: Cornish Mythology (2/?) The Mermaid of Zennor