melusine is a sort of mermaid well known in northern and western France Luxembourg and the Netherlands she is often portrayed as a beautiful female freshwater Spirit melusine was the child of a human King and her mother was a fairy she was cursed by her mother to turn into a snake from the waist down every Saturday in retaliation for taking revenge on her father but this curse would not prevent her from being happy if her beastly form was not seen by her beloved in the kulier forest in poto melusine met the nobleman Raymond while he was
out hunting they fell in love and married but meloine made Rond promise that he would never come into her room on Saturdays he agreed and the couple lived happily together for many years meloine bore him several children and helped her husband rule their land a very prosperous period for the region but gossip spread about melin's absence on Saturdays and prompted by a relative Raymond became suspicious of his wife's Fidelity fueled by mistrust and curiosity he spied on his wife through the keyhole and melun was having her bath when she was seen in her snake form
Raymond was horrified and kept his wrongdoing a secret but in one impassioned moment during an argument Raymond called meline a snake and this was evidence that he had broken his promise betrayed and distraught meline was forced to abandon her beloved husband and children because of the curse she turned into a mythical dragon-like being and flew away abandoning Raymond in Despair and regret she could never return to her human form but from a distance she always watched her children and grandchildren grow up the mythical mother of the French dynasty of the House of Lucan melusine gave
a mystical Aura to the Nobles born into this family her mythical figure came to be seen both as a protective mother and as a source of mystery and power transcending the natural world
