Real beautiful mermaids. Mermaids: myth or frightening reality? So do mermaids exist?
Should you believe in the existence of mermaids or refute myths? Readers of this article can make their choice: either accept on faith the numerous stories of seasoned travelers, sea conquerors and conscientious farmers, or be convinced of the complete absence scientific evidence the possibility of mixing humans and fish. However, sources containing descriptions of travel are filled with stories about mermaids. Is this evidence of the overdeveloped imagination of eyewitnesses?
Seeing mermaids with your own eyes
One of the sources of information about mermaids was the authoritative geographer Henry Hudson. The famous conqueror of the seas and discoverer of territories, after whom the bay off the coast of Canada, as well as the river and strait are named, while off the coast of Novaya Zemlya, made an entry in his logbook with his own hand: “Date: June 15, 1608 This morning a sailor overboard noticed something, looks like a mermaid. He called to those on deck, and another sailor joined in the observations. Meanwhile, the mermaid approached the ship and began to watch them with interest. After some time, a rushing wave overturned her. Above the waist, her body and head were similar to those of a woman, and her snow-white skin was set off by long black hair that flowed down her back. The bottom of her body resembled the tail of a dolphin or porpoise, and sparkled like a mackerel. The names of the witnesses were Robert Raynar and Thomas Hills."
Records of sighted mermaids are also found in the memoirs of Columbus and some of his companions.
Also, descriptions of strange creatures can be found in the 12th century chronicle of Iceland “Speculum Regale”: “In the coastal waters of Greenland, residents encounter a monster called “Margigr”. The creature's head and body appear human from the waist up. People were able to see hair, arms and breasts similar to those of a woman. Below the belly it is like a fish - there is a scaly tail and fins.”
Some of them are much smaller than people. Little mermaids.
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An event that occurred in 1830 on one of the Hebrides islands once again demonstrates that mermaids really exist, and not just in myths and fairy tales. Residents of Benbecula Island, as usual, collected seaweed left after the tide. The weather was calm and the sea was completely calm. Therefore, a sudden splash made one of the women turn around. Imagine her surprise when she saw a strange creature almost nearby, resembling a miniature woman in appearance. How did the story end? You can read about it.
What do real mermaids look like? Beautiful brunettes with fishtails.
In the Shipping Gazette of June 4, 1857, there was a story about the true story of Scottish sailors who swore on the Bible that they all clearly saw a small female creature, black-haired with a magnificent breast, who splashed near the shore, cutting the surface of the sea with her fish-like tail.
Lake and river mermaids actually exist.
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In places far from the sea, mermaids were known in two forms: the traditional one, with a fish tail, and without a tail - with legs. In the second case, the mermaid differed from an ordinary woman only in that she lived in the river. .
I saw a mermaid - kill her
Somewhere deep in the subconscious of every person there is a hunting instinct. For some it is securely hidden, while for others it often breaks out. Perhaps the boy who threw the stone at the mermaid did not pursue the goal of killing her at all. Like many in such cases, he obeyed the hunting instinct, like a kitten trying to catch a moving object and launch its claws into it.
Without thinking about the consequences, people rushed in pursuit of mermaids and often killed them in the heat of pursuit just like that, obeying the same hunting instinct.
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A similar incident occurred off the US coast near Portland in Casco Bay. One day one of the fishermen went out to sea on his boat to fish. Suddenly a strange creature emerged from the water and grabbed the side with its hands. The fisherman decided that it was a “triton,” and, without thinking about the purpose for which the sea deity swam up to the boat, he grabbed an ax that was lying among the gear and cut off the hand of the son of Poseidon. The vile creature immediately sank to the bottom, and a bloody trail remained on the surface of the water for a long time. When the sailor looked around, he saw at the bottom of the boat the hand of a sea monster, which was exactly like the man’s hand.
They do not live in captivity. Found a mermaid? Release her back to the sea!
Far fewer people thought about killing the mermaid than about capturing her. The latter has been achieved more than once throughout history.
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At some point, Catholic missionaries had a special interest in mermaids from a professional point of view.
They used to come to us more often
Meetings between mermaids and people in most cases had unfavorable consequences for these amazing creatures and often ended in their death. Therefore, the mermaids began to avoid people. And if in former times they could be seen quite often, now such meetings have become more rare.
Is the mermaid getting married? Love between mermaids and people.
Spending a long time at sea without women, and meeting beautiful mermaids there, sailors fell in love with them, as evidenced by literary works, legends and ballads. It is quite possible that all these creations have a very definite basis. There were cases when the love of a mermaid and a man was so passionate and strong that both could no longer imagine life without each other and the romantic relationship continued in marriage. In many cases, love was unrequited, and one person had to suffer from unrequited feelings.
It is worth noting that not all testimonies and stories about encounters with mermaids were reflected in the press. Some of those who heard the stories of eyewitnesses believed them, others, on the contrary, considered them crazy. But the fact remains a fact. Similar stories different people from completely different places indicate that mermaids actually exist.
Mermaids really exist even now, in our days.
Despite the stories of man marrying a mermaid and their prosperous life together, in most cases people treated these creatures as game and always sought to pursue them in order to catch or kill them.
If people had such an attitude, it is unlikely that they would want to appear where they would be met in this way.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has confirmed that mermaids do in fact exist and live in bodies of water around the world.
According to experts, magical women, the first mentions of which are found in rock paintings made at the end of the Paleolithic (Stone Age) about 30,000 years ago, when modern people began to sail the sea, really exist and live in all the oceans of the world.
The Animal Planet TV channel released a special film called "Mermaids: Body Found", which also proves the existence of mermaids.
NOAA spokesman Sandy Nixon told Weekly World News that at least 65 experts studying mermaids gathered in Tahiti to study all known data about these inhabitants of the deep sea. As a result, they came to the conclusion that a hybrid of a man with a fish tail lives among us.
Experts say most mermaids live in the warm waters of the Caribbean and Mediterranean, but they have also been spotted in the Pacific and South Atlantic.
According to WWN, the US government in Lately 7 mermaids were captured and they are all kept in an aquarium where they are studied. The location of the aquarium is hidden by the government. President Obama personally met with mermaids and was quite surprised by what he saw.
Mermaids have been seen in Britain for hundreds of years. One particularly intriguing story written and published in the British press occurred in 1810. It concerns a pair of mermaid children found on the Isle of Man. Several fishermen, having heard a strange noise, thought that it was some dying bird or some kind of animal screaming, and they headed towards the scream. There they found the body of one dead mermaid child and the body of a second that had been badly injured in a recent storm. They took the injured mermaid child to their home and nursed him back to health. The mermaid child was approximately 60cm long, had the torso of a normal child and the tail of a fish, and the hair looked like seaweed...
Drawings of mermaids were made by the sailors of Christopher COLUMBUS and other ancient travelers.
On Canada's Queen Charlotte Islands, residents discovered the remains of a strange creature. It looks like a seal, 150 cm tall, a dolphin tail - and a skull... humanoid. WITHfemale genital organs and anus.
The eye sockets are larger than those of animals that live in water, where visibility is limited. There is a bone ridge on the skull. U modern people This is not the case, but our ancestors and primates have it. Surrounding the find were the carcasses of a dozen whales that had washed ashore. Within two hours the body was recovered by the police.
This find has become another absolutely reliable one in recent years. For the first time, the half-decomposed remains of a sea humanoid fell into the hands of South African scientists in 2005.
Specialists rushed to study the find and found out that its DNA was similar to human DNA, but then the South African police seized all the materials. It turned out that they were immediately handed over to US intelligence services. In South Africa, only a copy of the recordings of a strange deep-sea howl remains.
America itself has examples of mermaids. On April 4, 2004, on the Pacific coast of Washington state, residents found a living (!) creature with a human head and a fish tail. The military immediately took him to a secret Navy laboratory. It is alleged that the “ichthyander” managed to live for almost two more years. In total, seven individuals are secretly kept in the US military aquarium, where they are carefully studied. This, in particular, was reported at a recent conference in Tahiti with the participation of 65 scientists from different countries studying mermaids.
- Mermaids live secretly, which is why they have survived to this day. We have studied less the depths of the world's oceans than the Moon. “I am confident that the most incredible discoveries await us here,” says John Selznick, a biology professor at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
All discoveries of mermaids were made precisely along the migration routes of whales. Mammals washed ashore, and marine humanoids were with them. Now the main reason for the death of the giants is considered to be secret tests by the US Navy of sonar (sound) weapons designed to combat submarines, combat swimmers and divers.
In this photo you can see the mummy of a mermaid kept inKarukayadoTemple located outside the cityHashimotoWakayama Prefecture. The fifty-centimeter mummy has fang-shaped teeth protruding from a wide-open mouth, and both hands are also raised to the head. Its lower part is covered with scales, and on its back there are signs of fins.
One of these mysterious mummies is kept in the Buxton Museum in Great Britain, and it can still be seen today.
photo taken in the storerooms of the Horniman Museum in London
The ancient bestiary amazes with the variety of unusual creatures. Among them, the most popular are sea maidens. Many researchers are confident that mermaids exist, while others provide evidence that their presence in the real world is impossible.
Mermaid appearance
Sea beauties, they are also undines, mavkas or pitchforks, Distinctive feature are long flowing light brown hair. This idea of appearance sea maidens is not the only one. Their appearance differs in the myths of different countries, so it is impossible to create a clear image of the creatures’ appearance.
Russian and Ukrainian legends represent mermaids as little girls with green hair. In the northern countries, records are found of ugly and evil undines. This idea is erroneous - this is what the merman’s wife looked like, close in essence to Mavka, but not one.
Origin of the Sea Maidens
There are several versions about the origin of mermaids, which are unproven, but they could not be refuted.
- The most common theory is that undines are the daughters of a merman.
- In other legends, the master of the lakes dragged innocent girls deep into the ocean, where they turned into mermaids.
- Ancient beliefs provide evidence of the rebirth of young women who drowned themselves because of unrequited love into mavoks.
Undines live in forests and sleep on the branches of large trees. Residents of Polesie claim that Mavkas appear in cemeteries and in water, which is considered the line between life and death. They leave their shelter only during the mermaid week, when they communicate with the living, and take some with them to the bottom.
Mythical creatures cannot boast of good character. According to legend, they love to scare passersby, put obstacles in people's way, pester young boys and cause riots. But sea maidens cannot be called bad - they love children and often help little ones. There was information about the rescue of drowning people by undines and about fun entertainments that were arranged by mermaids.
Mavok abilities
Mythical beauties are not endowed with supernatural skills, but they work small miracles. Sea maidens have a charming voice that is impossible to resist. Mavkas move quickly not only in water, but also on land - even the most talented athlete will not be able to catch up with them. An unusual skill is the ability of beauties to breathe freely both above the ground and while under the surface of the water.
Mermaid lifestyle
Ondines do not deny themselves entertainment - they mock people, play funny pranks and take the guys they like into their lair. But these events do not constitute the entire life of the sea maidens. They weave wonderful wreaths of wild flowers; a separate ritual for beauties is combing their hair. They are professionals in this matter - the procedure is performed in a quiet night using combs made of fish bones.
Mermaids feed on algae and sometimes milk cows in villages near their habitat. Legends have been preserved according to which the undines did not deny themselves wild berries and fruits.
Methods of protection
People who are sure that mermaids exist know that they can cause trouble or cause chaos in the household. For young guys, mythical creatures are especially dangerous - virgins lack communication, and they are ready to go to great lengths to meet a charming young man in real life. These facts forced people to look for ways to protect and combat moths.
The most important thing when meeting undines is not to succumb to the enchanting singing. You won't be able to resist the pressure; the only way out is earplugs. It is equally important to avoid the direct gaze of beauties.
You won't be able to run away from mermaids, but you can scare them - mythical creatures are afraid of hot iron. To escape from a mermaid, you need to carry a small pin or needle with you.
Ondine can be killed using conventional weapons, but to die you will need to put in a lot of effort and take into account the fast regeneration of mawoks.
Undines in the mythology of different peoples
It is a mistake to believe that the first mentions of Mavkas were recorded in Slavic countries. The most ancient records of mythical creatures appeared in Babylon. Since that time, almost every nation has acquired legends and signs about local sea maidens.
French undines were distinguished by a snake tail, and in southern Europe mermaids were replaced by sirens. Japanese sea nymphs were not very attractive and looked more like fish than people. Their meat was especially valued and brought longevity to people. The Brazilian maidens were distinguished by a shark's fin, and the Greek Nereids lived in a castle under water and had no tail.
Signs and beliefs about mythical creatures also exist all over the world. The British are afraid of mawkas and consider their appearance a sign of failure, while the Chinese value sea beauties and believe that the tears of maidens turn into pearls.
In ancient times, most of the world's population firmly believed in the existence of mermaids, and the prescribed rituals were observed with special care.
Evidence for the existence of undines
The fact of the existence of undines has not been proven, but every year there are more and more arguments in favor of the fact that beautiful sea maidens have been living in our world for many centuries, hiding in oceans and rivers.
The progress of new technologies is not an obstacle to finding an opportunity to form a final opinion and say unambiguously whether mermaids really exist.
In 2013, American researchers presented information about an Undine settlement near Tahiti. A gathering of specialists was held in this place to look for evidence of the existence of mawoks. Later, a documentary film was released showing the researchers' research. They did not discover the exact location of the lair of the sea creatures, so the evidence cannot be considered final.
The theory of the existence of mythical maidens is supported by records and photographs of fishermen who saw strange creatures while on vacation. Some of the data turned out to be false, others were not precisely confirmed.
Mermaids in culture
The image of sea maidens does not lose popularity among screenwriters and writers. Every year more and more films about supernatural creatures are produced. So, in the film “Pirates of the Caribbean” one of the main characters is a mermaid named , who was able to sincerely fall in love with a human young man. In the Harry Potter series, sea maidens are dangerous, intelligent creatures who speak a special language.
In the field of computer games, mythical creatures occupy not the last place. There are many entertainment programs designed for kids, such as The Little Mermaid from Disney.
Constantly confronted with the image of waving in Everyday life, more and more people are convinced that the existence of mermaids is true.
Our ancestors did not doubt the existence of mermaids, but over time, people increasingly trust only facts. Do mermaids really exist in modern times or are they just fiction? From time to time, evidence of the existence of mermaids, photos and videos appear in the press, but skeptics claim that all such materials are montages. Mystics have their own answer to the question of whether mermaids exist in real life: according to esotericists, mermaids are creatures of the subtle world, and they can only be seen with astral vision.
Do mermaids really exist in our time, and what do they look like in real life? This question worries many lovers of fairy tales.
What kind of creatures are these mermaids? This is a mythical creature, descriptions of which can be found in the legends and myths of every country. Descriptions of the appearance of mermaids can be found in ancient legends, tales and stories of people who met them. They all date back to different times, and meetings still take place today. Mermaids are credited with different appearances, characters and behavior in different countries. The Slavs described mermaids as girls with white skin, a charming voice and legs (not a tail!).
Mermaids have many names:
- In Rus' - bathing suits, watermen;
- IN Ancient Greece– sirens;
- In Rome - naiads;
- The ancient Germans had undines;
- In Scotland - silks;
- In France - a snake's tail.
How do they look
- Do mermaids really exist and what do they look like - magicians describe mermaids as mystical incorporeal creatures, clots of energy, endowed with the ability element of water.
- Mermaids discovered by people are very different from the heroines of fairy tales and myths. Different sources describe different types of mermaids, and there is also an opinion that different types are different stages of the evolution of a given creature.
- This theory confirms the opinion of some scientists that mermaids are possible ancestors of humans. After all, as we all know, life originated in the ocean. Unfortunately, this version has not been proven and cannot be considered true. There are a huge number of examples that undines actually live on our planet.
- Instructions are known.
Shocking facts about real encounters with mermaids
The first mention of a mermaid was recorded in the chronicles of Iceland in the 20th century. It mentions an unusual creature that had the body of a girl, only instead of legs she had the tail of a fish. The mermaid was given the name "Margigr". Nothing more is known about him.
Another fact was recorded in Holland - in 1404, after a terrible storm, a girl of an unusual appearance was thrown ashore. The story is described in the book by Sigault de la Fonda “Wonders of Nature, or a Collection of Extraordinary and Noteworthy Phenomena and Adventures in the Whole World of Bodies, Arranged in Alphabetical Order.” The woman was covered in seaweed and had fins instead of legs. People brought her to the city, went out and taught her everything they knew. How the girl coped with life on earth is unknown. But it is described that she lived another fifteen years, and always wanted to return to the ocean.
In the 17th century, traveler G. Hudson described in a ship's log mythical creature, which they met off the coast of the New World. He said that two of the sailors noticed a mermaid overboard the ship. According to the description, it was a girl with a naked body, a tail instead of legs, and thick black hair. Recorded date: June fifteenth, 1608. Apart from these sailors, none of the crew members saw mermaids.
Proof of the existence of mermaids - an unusual teenager
In the 17th century, the Spanish writer Iker Jimenez Elizari published an article in a newspaper containing records from the monastery archive. They talked about a young man named Francisco dela Vega Casar, who lived in Lierganes (Cantabria). The man was an excellent swimmer.
According to legend, a guy at the age of sixteen went to the sea, he was pulled into the depths - he disappeared. All attempts to find him were in vain. This teenager swam the best in the city. Tradition says that at the age of 16 the boy went for a swim, sank under the water and never came up again. People didn’t find the young man then.
At the beginning of 1679, near the bay of Cadiz, fishermen caught an unusual creature. It was something human-looking with scales on its back and belly, and a film between its fingers. The creature did not speak, but only growled; to restrain it, the help of ten people was needed. The young man was sent to a monastery, where he was kept for 21 days, trying to heal.
In January 1680 he was taken to Cantabria, where he was identified by the mother of the missing boy. He lived in his mother’s house for more than two years, but he never changed. At the end of 1682, he fled - he dived into the water and was never seen again. Perhaps it was this story that formed the basis of the plot of the famous book about Ichthyander.
Evidence from the 18th - 19th centuries
Evidence of the existence of mermaids in real life, unfortunately, cannot be verified.
- In the 18th century, another article was published proving the existence of mermaids. The story was published in Gentleman's magazine. English fishermen caught and pulled onto the deck a strange creature that uttered a human groan. Out of fear, people beat it and it died. Moving a little away from what they saw, the men examined their prey. It was a creature similar to a male mermaid. His appearance was frightening: his nose was flattened, covered with scales, his head had fins and a fish tail. For a long time this find was exhibited as an exhibit in the Exter Museum.
- Scot's magazine surprised readers in 1739 with an article that described an incident that occurred with the sailors of the ship Halifax. The ship's crew claimed to have caught a mermaid near the island of Mauritius. True, they had no evidence, because they ate the mermaid. But they noted that the meat of the undine is similar to veal.
- In 1830, an event occurred in the Hebrides. Local residents saw a small creature that looked like a mermaid. They tried to catch it, but the creature escaped, although it was wounded. Three days later, a small undine the size of a 3-year-old child washed ashore. According to the description, the creature had a fish tail and a human body. Local residents buried the mermaid.
- In 1886, the Daily Telegraph reported on fishermen who discovered an undine swimming past their boat. It was a small creature, the size of an 8-year-old child. The men tried to catch up with her, but they failed.
- In the 19th century, there were also cases associated with mermaids. In October 1881, a Boston newspaper published that a corpse had been found on the shore. amazing creation, similar to a mermaid. The upper part of the body was clearly female, only instead of legs the deceased had a fish tail.
Proof from USSR times
In 1982, training camps for combat swimmers of the Trans-Baikal Military District were held on Lake Baikal. It was then that Soviet officers encountered an unprecedented creature. For a long time this information was not disclosed, only over time the facts were revealed.
A group of scuba divers, diving to a depth of 50 meters, met unusual creatures there, clearly similar to mermaids. Their length reached 3 meters, they had unusual helmets on their heads, and their skin was covered with shiny scales. The officers claim that these were not people, because... They moved very quickly, and they also did not have special equipment for breathing underwater.
The creatures were not afraid of people, but on the contrary, they were clearly watching them. The commander-in-chief of the exercises made a decision - to catch at least one mermaid. For this purpose, a group of fighters was assembled, which included 9 best officers. The team was well trained and equipped for a covert operation. But, unfortunately, they did not have to catch the undine.
A creature with an unprecedented power of thought threw a group of healthy men ashore as soon as they tried to throw a net over it. This happened quickly and the people involved in the operation fell ill with decompression sickness. Two died almost immediately, the rest remained disabled. The incident was classified.
Evidence in the USA
In the USA in 1992, in the town of Key Beach (Florida), another meeting between a man and a mermaid took place. An unusual creature was spotted not far from the shore. His body resembled a seal, his head was large, with huge eyes, his arms were very long with membranes between his fingers. When the fishermen tried to swim to the creatures, they disappeared under the water, but first made several circles around the ship. After lifting the fishing nets, the team discovered that all the fish had been released and the nets were torn.
A very unusual exhibit was exhibited in the local history museum of the city of Toumston. The visitors were presented with the body of a creature that was very similar to a sea cow that became extinct many years ago. True, the upper part of the animal looked like a person with large round eyes. The creature had arms, shoulders, and even ribs, which is very unusual for underwater animals. Residents of the city claim that they often encountered these creatures in the past, but always released them into the wild. They say the reason for such actions is that these are clearly mutants and are suitable for food. Now, according to them, the creatures hardly appear.
Conclusion
From the above we can conclude that mermaids really exist. But we don't know who they are. Perhaps these are our ancestors, or maybe creatures that evolve parallel to us. After all, only 5% of the World Ocean has been studied, while it occupies more than 70% of the earth's surface. But you shouldn’t blindly believe all the stories about mermaids. After all, there are many cases in history when deceivers specifically created the bodies of mermaids in order to make money from it - money for a ticket to an exhibition or likes on social networks.
Video: “Facts about mermaids: mermaids exist - truth or myth”
In 2009, a huge mania gripped Israel. The phenomenon could be described as a “mermaid craze.” This story begins with a small beach in Kiryat Yam, where, according to eyewitnesses, they saw a real mermaid. Locals and tourists flock to this beach to watch the mermaid appear and disappear into the sea. The woman with the tail of a fish was beautiful and wonderful... At first, local residents relaxing on the beach mistook her for an ordinary tourist. But when people came closer to her, they noticed a greenish fish tail. The mermaid, seeing that they paid attention to her, dived into the water and swam away towards the sunset... Local residents were 100% sure that they had witnessed the existence of a real living mermaid.
After this incident, a craze for mermaids began in Israel. Information began to arrive from other eyewitnesses who claimed that they also saw a mermaid on this beach. She appeared only at sunset, and it seemed that she was simply playing with those who were watching her... But she never let anyone get too close to her. And if someone tried to get closer, the mermaid immediately hid in the depths of the ocean. Yams in the city of Kiryat gained many tourists after this incident with the mermaid, and a prize of one million dollars was awarded to the person who could capture the mermaid on film. But unfortunately, no one managed to photograph the beautiful mermaid, who was too careful to be photographed.
Where else have you seen mermaids?
There are stories of eyewitnesses who met mermaids. So, one man, once in the ocean, heard the singing of mermaids from its bottom. On the deck of the ship, he and his assistants heard the seductive singing of mermaids, which sounded from the bottom of the ocean. Some men, in a trance from the enchanting song, tried to jump overboard from the ship.
In the waters off the coast of Antarctica there were real sightings of. The Japanese called them "ningen" sightings. These sea creatures are very similar to humans, but they are completely white, and apparently live underwater just like other mermaids.
During the Middle Ages, in the 12th century, a merman was caught near the shore of Orfold Castle in Suffolk, England. The owners of the castle kept the merman for six months, but then he managed to escape and return to the ocean. The story tells that this merman was silent and never uttered a single word, and only ate fish for food, refusing anything else.
In Dyved, twelve people watched a beautiful mermaid bathing in the water. She had the body of a beautiful woman, but then they noticed a black tail splashing from behind her back. This actual sighting of a mermaid took place in July 1826 and was subsequently talked about for many years.
Another incident involving the appearance of a mermaid occurred in Zimbabwe in 2002. The men working at the reservoir were driven out by the mermaids, after which the men refused to ever return to this place. The report on the mermaids was published in the newspapers and supported by Minister Nkomo.
In Canada, a mermaid sighting occurred in 1967 when people saw a woman with a dolphin tail. She had beautiful blonde hair and was seen eating salmon. After this incident, almost the entire city went crazy, but unfortunately, no one else was able to see her.
Mermaids have been spotted in Britain for hundreds of years. One particularly intriguing story written and published in the British press occurred in 1810, involving two baby mermaids found on the Isle of Man. Several fishermen, having heard a strange noise, thought that it was some kind of dying bird or animal screaming. The fishermen headed towards the cry. There they found the body of one dead mermaid child, and the body of a second, which was badly damaged by a recent storm. They took the injured mermaid child to their home and nursed him back to health. He was about 60cm long, had the torso of a normal child and the tail of a fish, and his hair looked like seaweed... it was green in color.
Myths and stories about mermaids
In Ireland and parts of Scotland, mermaids are called merrows, and many stories of these elusive creatures date back to the 9th century AD. e. Many stories about these creatures are full of warnings about mermaids or merfolk. Many sailors of past centuries believed that meeting a real mermaid meant imminent death... or terrible storms and shipwrecks. Sometimes merfolk, as sailors supposed, could even cause storms that destroyed ships, and supposedly merfolk were so evil that they ate drowning sailors.
These legends about mermaids are far from the story of Disney's Little Mermaid, which our children know from books. Young children in Britain, Ireland and Scotland were warned not to go too close to lakes, rivers, and even wells, as they could be caught by merrows.
According to eyewitnesses from Ireland and Scotland, female mermaids were usually very beautiful, while male mermaids were very ugly. This is why many believed that mermaid women leave their ocean to fall in love with people. Mermaids are usually noted to have long green hair and white webbed hands. Mermaids were most often spotted brushing their hair while sitting on rocks or near the shoreline (as depicted in much of the artwork we see today).
Sirens are Greek mermaids of incredible talent and cbks. They were said to have once been goddesses who were punished greek goddess Demeter for not saving Demeter's daughter, Persephone. They lived on an island in the Mediterranean Sea and seduced sailors by playing charming music. The music was so beautiful and charming that the sailors lost control of the ship, which crashed against the rocks. In some stories, the sirens weren't mermaids at all, they were women with bird wings; however, most stories and paintings today show Greek sirens in mermaid form.
Mythical creatures from Scottish and Irish folklore, Selkies, seal people. In fact, they were werewolf mermaids. When they were in the water, they had the bodies of mermaids, but when they came ashore, they could change and take the form of a person. Many legends speak of selkie women who became human wives, but were forced to leave their husbands as soon as the ocean called them back. There is a legend - if a person can hide or destroy the skin of a selkie, then it will be his forever. But if she found her seal skin, then she had to go to sea forever, never returning... For a woman to meet a selkie man, she had to shout seven times into the ocean and he would come.
Mermaids and mermen have existed for centuries, and they are not going away. Do these creatures exist, or did they exist at some point in history, is one of the questions that lovers of the unknown ask themselves. If the world of science decides not to believe in amazing things, including mermaids, I prefer to believe in mermaids, because it brings into our lives some mystery, a mystery, a belief that the depths of the ocean are not lifeless.