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'''メリュジーヌ'''（別名：'''メリュジーナ'''、Melusine）は、フランスの伝承に登場する'''水の精霊'''で、一種の異類婚姻譚の主人公。<!--ローズp3431ここから-->上半身は中世の衣装をまとった美女の姿だが、下半身は蛇の姿で、背中にはドラゴンの翼が付いている事から竜の妖精でもあるとも言われている<ref name="ローズp431">ローズ,松村訳 (2004), p. 431.</ref>。マーメイドの伝承とも結び付けられて考えられることもある<ref group="私注">メリュジーヌが「'''水の精霊'''」とされるのは、「彼女が水の神（あるいは川の神）に[[人身御供]]として捧げられ、水の神と一体化している」ということの暗喩と考える。</ref>。
'''Mélusine''' ({{IPA-fr|melyzin|lang}}) or '''Melusina''' is a figure of [[European folklore]], a [[nixie (folklore)|female spirit of fresh water]] in a [[holy well]] or river. She is usually depicted as a woman who is a [[Serpent (symbolism)|serpent]] or [[Fish in culture|fish]] from the waist down (much like a [[lamia]] or a [[mermaid]]). She is also sometimes illustrated with wings, two tails, or both. Her legends are especially connected with the northern and western areas of France, Luxembourg, and the [[Low Countries]].
The [[Limburg-Luxemburg dynasty]] (which ruled the [[Holy Roman Empire]] from 1308 to 1437 as well as [[Bohemia]] and [[Hungary]]), the [[Angevin kings of England|House of Anjou]] and their descendants the [[House of Plantagenet]] (kings of England), and the French [[House of Lusignan]] (kings of [[Cyprus]] from 1205–1472, and for shorter periods over [[Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia|Cilician Armenia]] and [[Jerusalem]]) are said in folk tales and [[medieval literature]] to be descended from Melusine. The story combines several major legendary themes, such as the water nymph or mermaid, the earth being ([[terroir]]), the ''[[genius loci]]'' or guardian spirit of a location, the [[succubus]] who comes from the diabolical world to unite carnally with a man, or the [[banshee]] or harbinger of death.
==Etymology==
The French ''[[Dictionnaire de la langue française]]'' suggests the Latin ''melus'', meaning "melodious, pleasant".<ref>{{Cite web |title=mélusine |url=https://www.littre.org/definition/m%C3%A9lusine |access-date= |website=Dictionnaire Littré}}</ref> Another theory is that Melusine was inspired by a Poitevin legend of "Mère Lusine," leader of a band of fairies who built Roman edifices throughout the countryside.<ref>{{Cite book |title=A Bilingual Edition of Jean D'Arras's Melusine, Or, L'histoire de Lusignan, Book 1 |publisher=Edwin Mellen Press |year=2007 |pages=15}}</ref> Melusine's name varies depending on the areas, such as Merlusse in [[Vosges]] or Merluisaine in Champagne.
==Literary versions==
[[File:Bookofmelusine.jpg|thumb|left|220px|Raymond walks in on his wife, Melusine, in her bath and discovers she has the lower body of a serpent. Illustration from the [[Jean d'Arras]] work, ''Le livre de Mélusine'' (The Book of Melusine), 1478.]]
The most famous literary version of Melusine tales, that of [[Jean d'Arras]], compiled about 1382–1394, was worked into a collection of "spinning yarns" as told by ladies at their spinning coudrette ([[wikisource:fr:Couldrette|coulrette (in French)]]). He wrote ''The Romans of Partenay or of Lusignen: Otherwise known as the Tale of Melusine,'' giving source and historical notes, dates and background of the story. He goes into detail and depth about the relationship of Melusine and Raymondin, their initial meeting, and the complete story.
The tale was translated into [[German language|German]] in 1456 by [[Thüring von Ringoltingen]], which version became popular as a [[chapbook]]. It was later translated into [[English language|English]], twice, around 1500, and often printed in both the 15th century and the 16th century. There is also a Castilian and a Dutch translation, both of which were printed at the end of the 15th century.<ref>{{harvp|Zeldenrust|2020}}{{pages needed|date=November 2022}}</ref> A prose version is entitled the ''Chronique de la princesse'' (''Chronicle of the Princess'').
The story tells how in the time of the Crusades, Elynas, the King of [[Alba]]ny (an old name for [[Scotland]] or [[Alba]]), went hunting one day and came across a beautiful lady in the forest. She was Pressyne, mother of Melusine. He persuaded her to marry him but she agreed, only on the promise—for there is often a hard and fatal condition attached to any pairing of [[fairy|fay]] and mortal—that he must not enter her chamber when she birthed or bathed her children. She gave birth to triplets. When he violated this taboo, Pressyne left the kingdom, together with her three daughters, and traveled to the lost Isle of [[Avalon]].
The three girls—Melusine, Melior, and Palatyne—grew up in Avalon. On their fifteenth birthday, Melusine, the eldest, asked why they had been taken to Avalon. Upon hearing of their father's broken promise, Melusine sought revenge. She and her sisters captured Elynas and locked him, with his riches, in a mountain. Pressyne became enraged when she learned what the girls had done, and punished them for their disrespect to their father. Melusine was condemned to take the form of a serpent from the waist down every Saturday.
Raymond or Raymondin of [[Poitou]] came across Melusine in a forest of Coulombiers in [[Poitou]] in [[France]], and proposed marriage. Just as her mother had done, she laid a condition: that he must never enter her chamber on a Saturday. For many years Raymond kept his promise, and Melusine bore him ten sons and organized the construction of marvelous castles. However, Raymond was eventually goaded by a relative and grew suspicious of Melusine's activities on Saturday. He broke his promise and peeked into her chamber, where he saw Melusine bathing in half-serpent form. He kept his transgression a secret, until one of their now-adult sons murdered another. In front of his court, the grieving Raymond blamed Melusine and called her a "serpent." She then assumed the form of a [[dragon]], provided him with two [[magic ring]]s, and flew off, never to be seen again. She returned only at night to nurse her two youngest children, who were still infants.<ref>[[Boria Sax]], ''The Serpent and the Swan: Animal Brides in Literature and Folklore''. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press/ McDonald & Woodward, 1998.</ref>
== Analysis ==
In [[folkloristics]], German folklorist [[Hans-Jörg Uther]] classifies the Melusine tale and related legends as its own tale type of the [[Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index]]. In the German Folktale Catalogue ([[German language|German]]: ''Deutscher Märchenkatalog''), they are grouped under type *425O, "Melusine", part of a section related to tales where a human maiden marries a supernatural husband in animal form ([[Animal as Bridegroom]]).<ref>Uther, Hans-Jörg. ''[https://books.google.com.br/books?id=PiMFCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA610&lpg=PA610&dq=%22Schlesische+Volksm%C3%A4rchen%22+schiller&source=bl&ots=mzk9wCPbsK&sig=ACfU3U0GRHy2quFwklaLfPGsLphw0oXSZA&hl=pt-BR&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjq_-ny6bX5AhXrrZUCHYtrDz8Q6AF6BAgUEAM#v=onepage&q=%22melusine%22&f=false Deutscher Märchenkatalog. Ein Typenverzeichnis]''. Waxmann Verlag, 2015. p. 104. {{ISBN|9783830983323}}.</ref>
As in tales of [[Swan maiden|swan maidens]], [[shapeshifting]] and flight on wings away from oath-breaking husbands figure in stories about Mélusine. According to [[Sabine Baring-Gould]] in ''Curious Tales of the Middle Ages'', the pattern of the tale is similar to the [[Knight of the Swan]] legend which inspired the character "[[Lohengrin]]" in [[Wolfram von Eschenbach]]'s ''[[Parzival]]''.<ref name="S.Baring-Gould">{{Cite book |last=Baring-Gould |first=Sabine |url=https://archive.org/details/curiousmythsmid06barigoog |title=Curious Myths of the Middle Ages |publisher=Roberts Brothers |year=1882 |location=Boston |pages=343–393}}</ref>
[[Jacques Le Goff]] considered that Melusina represented a fertility figure: "she brings prosperity in a rural area...Melusina is the fairy of medieval economic growth".<ref>J. Le Goff, ''Time, Work and Culture in the Middle Ages'' (London 1982) p. 218-9</ref>
== Other versions ==
=== In France ===
Melusine legends are especially connected with the northern areas of France, [[Poitou]] and the [[Low Countries]], as well as Cyprus, where the French [[Lusignan]] royal house that ruled the island from 1192 to 1489 claimed to be descended from Melusine.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mark |first=Joshua J. |title=Melusine |url=https://www.worldhistory.org/Melusine/ |access-date=2022-09-28 |website=World History Encyclopedia |language=en}}</ref> Oblique reference to this was made by Sir [[Walter Scott]] who told a Melusine tale in ''[[Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border]]'' (1802–1803) stating that "the reader will find the fairy of Normandy, or Bretagne, adorned with all the splendour of Eastern description". The fairy Melusina, also, who married [[Guy de Lusignan]], Count of Poitou, under condition that he should never attempt to intrude upon her privacy, was of this latter class. She bore the count many children, and erected for him a magnificent castle by her magical art. Their harmony was uninterrupted until the prying husband broke the conditions of their union, by concealing himself to behold his wife make use of her enchanted bath. Hardly had Melusina discovered the indiscreet intruder, than, transforming herself into a dragon, she departed with a loud yell of lamentation, and was never again visible to mortal eyes; although, even in the days of [[Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme|Brantome]], she was supposed to be the protectress of her descendants, and was heard wailing as she sailed upon the blast round the turrets of the [[Château de Lusignan|castle of Lusignan]] the night before it was demolished.<ref>{{cite book |title= The minstrelsy of the Scottish border |last=Scott |first=Sir Walter |year=1849 |publisher=Robert Cadell |location=Edinburgh |volume=2 |page=264 |url=https://archive.org/details/minstrelsyofscot02scot/mode/2up?q=melusina}}</ref>
=== In Luxembourg ===
[[File:Luxembourg, Église Saint-Jean (Neumünster) côté Alzette (101).jpg|300px|thumb|right|Statue of Melusine near the [[Alzette]] in [[Luxembourg City|Luxembourg]]]]
The [[List of monarchs of Luxembourg|Counts of Luxembourg]] also claimed descent from Melusine through their ancestor [[Siegfried of Luxembourg|Siegfried]].<ref name="Women">{{cite book |author1=Philippa Gregory |author2-link=David Baldwin (historian) |author2=David Baldwin |author3-link=Michael Jones (historian) |author3=Michael Jones |title=The Women of the Cousins' War |year=2011 |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |location=London|author1-link=Philippa Gregory |title-link=The Women of the Cousins' War }}</ref> When in 963 A.D. Count Siegfried of the [[Ardennes]] (''Sigefroi'' in French; ''Sigfrid'' in Luxembourgish) bought the feudal rights to the territory on which he founded his capital city of [[Luxembourg City|Luxembourg]], his name became connected with the local version of Melusine. This Melusina had essentially the same magic gifts as the ancestress of the Lusignans. The morning after their wedding, she magically created the Castle of Luxembourg on the [[Bock (Luxembourg)|Bock]] rock (the historical center point of Luxembourg City). On her terms of marriage, she too required one day of absolute privacy each week. Eventually Sigfrid was tempted by curiosity and entered her apartment on Saturday, when he saw her in her bath and discovered her to be a mermaid. He cried out in surprise, and Melusina and her bath sank into the earth. Melusine remained trapped in the rock but returns every seven years either as a woman or a serpent, carrying a golden key in her mouth. Anyone brave enough to take the key will free her and win her as his bride. Also every seven years, Melusine adds a stitch to a linen chemise; if she finishes the chemise before she can be freed, all of Luxembourg will be swallowed by the rock.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Casey |first=Robert Joseph |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KB0BAAAAMAAJ |title=The Land of Haunted Castles |publisher=Century Company |year=1921 |pages=55-58}}</ref> In 1997, Luxembourg issued a postage stamp commemorating her.<ref>[http://www.luxcentral.com/stamps/LuxStamps1997.html#Europa.1997 Luxembourg Stamps: 1997]</ref>
=== In Germany ===
[[File:Melusine-Ludwig Michael von Schwanthaler-1845.jpg|180px|thumb|right|Melusine by [[Ludwig Michael von Schwanthaler]] (1845)]]
In his [[Table Talk (Luther)|Table Talks]], [[Martin Luther]] mentioned Melusina of Lucelberg (Luxembourg), whom he described as a [[succubus]] or the devil. Luther believed in stories like Melusine and attributed them to the devil appearing in female form to seduce men.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Irmischer |first=Johann Konrad |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vMUOAQAAMAAJ |title=Dr. Martin Luther's sämmtliche Werke, Volumes 60-62 |publisher=Heyder & Zimmer |year=1854 |pages=37}}</ref>
The story of Melusine strongly influenced [[Paracelsus]]'s writings on [[Elemental|elementals]] and especially his description of water spirits.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Elmes |first=Melissa Ridley |title=Melusine's Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth |publisher=Brill |year=2017 |pages=94-108}}</ref> This, in turn, inspired [[Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué]]'s [[novella]] ''Undine'' (1811), which led to adaptations and references in works such as [[Jean Giraudoux]]'s play ''[[Ondine (ballet)|Ondine]]'' (1939), [[Hans Christian Andersen]]'s fairy tale [[The Little Mermaid]] (1837), and [[Antonín Dvořák]]'s opera ''[[Rusalka (opera)|Rusalka]]'' (1901).
In a legend set in the forest of Stollenwald, a young man meets a beautiful woman named Melusina who has the lower body of a snake. If he will kiss her three times on three consecutive days, she will be freed. However, on each day she becomes more and more monstrous, until the young man flees in terror without giving her the final kisses. He later marries another girl, but the food at their wedding feast is mysteriously poisoned with serpent venom and everyone who eats it dies.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bechstein |first=Ludwig |title=Deutsches Sagenbuch |publisher=Verlag von Georg Wigand |year=1853 |location=Leipzig |pages=729-30}}</ref>
Other Germanic water sprites include [[Lorelei]] and the [[Neck (water spirit)|nixie]].
=== In Britain ===
Melusine is one of the pre-Christian water-faeries {{citation needed|date=December 2013}} who were sometimes responsible for [[changeling]]s. The "[[Lady of the Lake]]", who spirited away the infant [[Lancelot]] and raised the child, was such a water nymph.
A folktale tradition of a demon wife similar to Melusine appears in early English literature. According to the chronicler [[Gerald of Wales]], [[Richard I of England]] was fond of telling a tale that he was a descendant of an unnamed countess of Anjou.<ref>[[Flori, Jean]] (1999), Richard Coeur de Lion: le roi-chevalier, Paris: Biographie Payot, {{ISBN|978-2-228-89272-8}} {{in lang|fr}}</ref> In the legend, an early Count of Anjou encountered a beautiful woman from a foreign land. They were married and had four sons. However, the count became troubled because his wife only attended church infrequently, and always left in the middle of Mass. One day he had four of his men forcibly restrain his wife as she rose to leave the church. She evaded the men and, in full view of the congregation, flew out of the church through its highest window. She carried her two youngest sons away with her. One of the remaining sons was the ancestor of the later Counts of Anjou, their troublesome nature being the result of their demonic background.<ref>Huscroft, R. (2016) ''Tales From the Long Twelfth Century: The Rise and Fall of the Angevin Empire'', Yale University Press, pp. xix–xx</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Stevenson |first=Joseph |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DuLRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA224 |title=The Church Historians of England: Prereformation series, Volume 5, Part 1 |publisher=Seeleys |year=1858 |pages=224}}</ref>
A similar story became attached to [[Eleanor of Aquitaine]], as seen in the 14th-century romance ''[[Richard Coer de Lyon]].'' In this fantastical account, Henry II's wife is not named Eleanor but Cassodorien, and she always leaves Mass before the elevation of the Host. They have three children: Richard, John, and a daughter named Topyas. When Henry forces Cassodorien to stay in Mass, she flies through the roof of the church carrying her daughter, never to be seen again.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Turner |first=Ralph V. |title=Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France, Queen of England |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chapman |first=Robert L. |date=June 1955 |title=A Note on the Demon Queen Eleanor |url=https://doi.org/10.2307/3039577 |journal=Modern Language Notes |volume=70 |issue=6 |pages=393-396 |via=JSTOR}}</ref>
==Related legends==
''[[The Travels of Sir John Mandeville]]'' recounts a legend about [[Hippocrates]]' daughter. She was transformed into a hundred-foot long [[dragon]] by the goddess [[Artemis|Diane]], and is the "lady of the manor" of an old castle. She emerges three times a year, and will be turned back into a woman if a knight kisses her, making the knight into her consort and ruler of the islands. Various knights try, but flee when they see the hideous dragon; they die soon thereafter. This appears to be an early version of the legend of Melusine.<ref>Christiane Deluz, ''Le livre de Jehan de Mandeville'', Leuven 1998, p. 215, as reported by Anthony Bale, trans., ''The Book of Marvels and Travels'', Oxford 2012, {{ISBN|0199600600}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=KqonpxzxlFoC&pg=PA15 p. 15] and footnote</ref>
The motif of the cursed serpent-maiden freed by a kiss also appears in the story of [[Le Bel Inconnu]].
==References in the arts and popular culture==
===Arts===
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[[Image:JuliusHubner Melusine.jpg|thumb|400px|"Melusine" by [[Julius Hübner]].]]
* Melusine is the subject of [[Fromental Halévy|Halévy]]'s grand opera ''[[La magicienne]]'' (1858), although the story is greatly altered. Rather than a half-fairy under a curse, Melusine is a witch who has sold her soul to the Devil and is beautiful by day and hideous by night.
* [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] reinterpreted the legend in his short story ''Die Neue Melusine'' ("The New Melusine") and published it as part of ''Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre'' (1807)''.'' In this version, Melusine is a tiny elf who sometimes takes on human size.
* The playwright [[Franz Grillparzer]] brought Goethe's tale to the stage and [[Felix Mendelssohn]] provided a [[concert overture]] ''[[Die schöne Melusine|The Fair Melusine]] (Zum Märchen von der Schönen Melusine)'', opus 32.
* [[Marcel Proust]]'s main character compares Gilberte to Melusine in ''Within a Budding Grove''. She is also compared on several occasions to the Duchesse de Guermantes who was (according to the Duc de Guermantes) directly descended from the Lusignan dynasty. In the Guermantes Way, for example, the narrator observes that the Lusignan family "was fated to become extinct on the day when the fairy Melusine should disappear".<ref>{{harvp|Proust|1996|p=5}}</ref>
* The story of Melusine (also called Melusina) was retold by [[Letitia Landon]] in the poem "The Fairy of the Fountains" in ''Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book''<ref>{{harvp|Landon|1834}}</ref> and reprinted in her collection ''The Zenana''. Here she is representative of the female poet. An analysis can be found in {{harvnb|DeLong|2012|pp=124–131}}.
* In ''[[Our Lady of the Flowers]]'', [[Jean Genet]] twice says that Divine, the main character, is descended from "the siren Melusina".<ref>{{cite book |last=Genet |first=Jean |pages=198, 298 |publisher=Grove Press |year=1991 |title=Our Lady of the Flowers |isbn=9780802130136}}</ref>
* [[Dorothy L. Sayers]]'s short story ''The leopard lady'' in the 1939 collection ''[[In the Teeth of the Evidence|In the teeth of the evidence]]'' features a Miss Smith "who should have been called Melusine".
* Melusine appears to have inspired aspects of the character Mélisande, who is associated with springs and waters, in [[Maurice Maeterlinck]]'s play ''[[Pelléas and Mélisande]]'', first produced in 1893. [[Claude Debussy]] adapted it as an opera by the same name, produced in 1902.
* [[Margaret Irwin (novelist)|Margaret Irwin's]] fantasy novel ''These Mortals'' (1925) revolves around Melusine leaving her father's palace, and having adventures in the world of humans.<ref>[[Brian Stableford]], " Re-Enchantment in the Aftermath of War", in Stableford, ''Gothic Grotesques: Essays on Fantastic Literature''. Wildside Press, 2009, {{ISBN|978-1-4344-0339-1}} (p.110-121)</ref>
* [[Charlotte Haldane]] wrote a study of Melusine in 1936 (which her then husband [[J.B.S. Haldane]] referred to in his children's book "My Friend Mr Leakey").
* Aribert Reimann composed an opera ''[[Melusine (Reimann)|Melusine]]'', which premiered in 1971.
* The Melusine legend is featured in [[A. S. Byatt]]'s late 20th century novel ''[[Possession: A Romance|Possession]]''. One of the main characters, Christabel LaMotte, writes an epic poem about Melusina.
* [[Philip the Good]]'s 1454 [[Feast of the Pheasant]] featured as one of the lavish 'entremets' (or table decorations) a mechanical depiction of Melusine as a dragon flying around the castle of [[Lusignan]].<ref>Jeffrey Chipps Smith, ''The Artistic Patronage of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy (1419–1467)'', PhD thesis (Columbia University, 1979), p. 146</ref>
* [[Rosemary Hawley Jarman]] used a reference from [[Sabine Baring-Gould]]'s ''Curious Myths of the Middle Ages''<ref>"Stephan, a Dominican, of the [[Lusignan dynasty|house of Lusignan]], developed the work of [[Jean d'Arras]], and made the story so famous, that the families of [[House of Luxembourg|Luxembourg]], [[House of Rohan|Rohan]], and Sassenage altered their pedigrees so as to be able to claim descent from the illustrious Melusina", citing [[Jean-Baptiste Bullet]]'s ''Dissertation sur la mythologie française'' (1771).</ref> that the [[House of Luxembourg]] claimed descent from Melusine in her 1972 novel ''The King's Grey Mare'', making [[Elizabeth Woodville]]'s family claim descent from the water-spirit.<ref>{{cite book|first=Rosemary Hawley|surname=Jarman|author-link=Rosemary Hawley Jarman|chapter=Foreword|title=The King's Grey Mare|year=1972}}</ref> This element is repeated in [[Philippa Gregory]]'s novels ''[[The White Queen (novel)|The White Queen]]'' (2009) and ''[[The Lady of the Rivers]]'' (2011), but with [[Jacquetta of Luxembourg]] telling Elizabeth that their descent from Melusine comes through the [[Duke of Burgundy|Dukes of Burgundy]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Philippa|surname=Gregory|author-link=Philippa Gregory|chapter=Chapter One|chapter-url=http://www.philippagregory.com/assets/files/books/c378dc51467f69710c276f803d42762f.pdf|title=The White Queen|year=2009|title-link=The White Queen (novel)}}</ref><ref name="Women"/>
* In ''[[The Wandering Unicorn]]'' (1965) by [[Manuel Mujica Láinez]], Melusine tells her tale of several centuries of existence, from her original curse to the time of the [[Crusades]].<ref>[http://worldcat.org/search?q=Wandering+Unicorn++Lainez&qt=results_page Láinez, Manuel Mujica (1983) ''The Wandering Unicorn'' Chatto & Windus, London] {{ISBN|0-7011-2686-8}};</ref>
* In his 2016 novel ''In Search of Sixpence'' the writer [[Michael Paraskos]] retells the story of Melusine by imagining her as a Turkish Cypriot girl forceably abducted from the island by a visiting Frenchman.
* In the 2021 novel ‘’Matrix,’’ by [[Lauren Groff]], the poet Marie de France is said to be descended from the fairy Melusine.
=== Other references ===
* In [[Czech language|Czech]] and [[Slovak language|Slovak]], the word ''meluzína'' refers to wailing wind, usually in the chimney. This is a reference to the wailing Melusine looking for her children.<ref>{{cite book|last=Smith|first=G.S.|author2=C. M. MacRobert |author3=G. C. Stone |title=Oxford Slavonic Papers, New Series|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|year=1996|edition=28, illustrated|volume=XXVIII|pages=150|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zjl-AAAAIAAJ&q=wind|isbn=978-0-19-815916-2}}</ref>
*In June 2019, it was announced that Luxembourg's first [[petascale]] [[supercomputer]], a part of the [[European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking]] (EuroHPC JU) programme, is to be named "Meluxina".<ref>{{cite web |title=Le superordinateur luxembourgeois "Meluxina" fera partie du réseau européen EuroHPC |trans-title=Luxembourgish supercomputer "Meluxina" will be part of the EuroHPC European network |url=https://gouvernement.lu/fr/actualites/toutes_actualites/communiques/2019/06-juin/14-schneider-meluxina.html |website=gouvernement.lu |access-date=30 June 2019 |language=fr |date=14 June 2019}}</ref>
* The [[Starbucks]] logo is based on the melusine of [[heraldry]], depicted as a siren or mermaid with a crown and two tails.<ref>{{Cite news|url= https://abcnews.go.com/Business/starbucks-drops/story?id=12554345|publisher=[[ABC News]]|title= Can You Say 'Melusine?" Starbucks Will Explain |last=Woodard |first=Larry|date=6 January 2011|accessdate=28 April 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90157014/the-starbucks-logo-has-a-secret-youve-never-noticed
|title=The Starbucks Logo Has A Secret You've Never Noticed |last=Wilson |first=Mark |work=[[Fast Company]] |date=17 January 2018 |accessdate= 7 June 2021}}</ref>
* In [[Monster Musume]], a subspecies of lamia that has a pair of bat wings is named after her.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/998/109/357.png|title=Lamia and Their Subspecies}}</ref>
* In 2022, the [[Postage stamps and postal history of France|French postal system]] released a 1.65 euro stamp depicting ''la fee melusine'' as part of a series of myths and legends.<ref> [https://www.wikitimbres.fr/timbres/12908/2022-mythes-et-legendes-la-fee-melusine-europa]</ref><ref>[https://www.lecarredencre.fr/timbre/serie-europa-mythes-et-legendes-melusine/]</ref>
==See also==
*[[Echidna (mythology)]], Greek Mythological serpent woman, mother of monsters
*[[Shahmaran]], Benevolent serpent-woman from Anatolian and Iranian mythology
*[[Legend of the White Snake]]
*[[Morgen (mythological creature)]]
*[[Neck (water spirit)]]
*[[Naiad]]
*[[Potamides (mythology)]]
*''[[Partonopeus de Blois]]''
*[[Yuki-onna]]
*[[Knight of the Swan]]
== Literature ==
* {{cite book |first1=Donald |last1=Maddox |first2=Sara |last2=Sturm-Maddox |title=Melusine of Lusignan: foundling fiction in late medieval France |year=1996 |isbn=9780820318233}} Essays on the ''Roman de Mélusine'' (1393) of [[Jean d'Arras]].
* {{cite book |first=Lydia |last=Zeldenrust |title=The Mélusine Romance in Medieval Europe: Translation, Circulation, and Material Contexts |location=Cambridge |publisher=D.S. Brewer |year=2020 |ISBN=9781843845218}} On the many translations of the romance, covering French, German, Dutch, Castilian, and English versions.
* {{cite book |first=Jean |last=d'Arras |title=Mélusine, roman du XIVe siècle |editor-first=Louis |editor-last=Stouff |location=Dijon |publisher=Bernigaud & Privat |year=1932 |language=French}} A scholarly edition of the important medieval French version of the legend by Jean d'Arras.
*{{cite book |first=Otto J. |last=Eckert |title=Luther and the Reformation |format=lecture |year=1955 |url=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-6AU_rXMR5gJ:www.wls.wels.net/library/Essays/Authors/E/EckertReformation/EckertReformation.pdf+Heraldry+Melusina&hl=en}}
* {{cite book |last=Proust |first=Marcel |translator-first=C. K. |translator-last=Scott-Moncrieff |title=Within A Budding Grove |page=190 |year=1996 |isbn=9780099362319}}
* [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]], Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835 (1834).<ref> {{cite book|last =Landon|first=Letitia Elizabeth|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Bzk_AAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA57|section=poem|year=1834|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}</ref> {{ws|[[s:Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835/The Fairy of the Fountains|The Fairy of the Fountains]]}}
* {{cite book |first=Anne |last=DeLong |title=Mesmerism, Medusa and the Muse: The Romantic Discourse of Spontaneous Creativity |year=2012 |isbn=9780739170434}}
==External links==
*[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/melusina.html "Melusina"], translated legends about mermaids and water sprites that marry mortal men, with sources noted, edited by [[D. L. Ashliman]], at University of Pittsburgh
*{{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20061111101830/http://www.endicott-studio.com/rdrm/rrMarriedToMagic.html Terri Windling, "Married to Magic: Animal Brides and Bridegrooms in Folklore and Fantasy"]}}
*[https://archive.org/details/melusine00jeanuoft Jean D'Arras, ''Melusine''], Archive.org
*{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Mélusine |short=x}}
== 伝説の概要 ==
