Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.
James Theodore BentAbout author
- Author's profession: Explorer
- Nationality: english
- Born: March 30, 1852
- Died: May 5, 1897
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