This document provides a summary of the history and mythology of mermaids. It discusses early sightings and descriptions of mermaids in sources like the "Bedouin Nights". It also notes references to merfolk in ancient religions like Hinduism. The document outlines some common mermaid stories and legends from various cultures around the world. For example, it describes the "Blue Men of the Minch" in Scottish folklore and kappa in Japanese mythology. It considers whether reported mermaid sightings were actually of other sea creatures like manatees. While science cannot prove or disprove their existence, the document suggests mermaids may have inspired ancient deities and that their legends live on in modern stories and films.

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Mermaid : Queen of the Seas
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History of the Mermaids
With the vast majority of our blue planet covered by water, it's little miracle that, hundreds of years prior,
the seas were accepted to shroud secretive animals including ocean snakes and mermaids.
The "Merfolk" (mermaids and mermen) are, obviously, the marine adaptation of half-human, half-creature
legends that have caught human creative mind for a long time. One source, the "Bedouin Nights,"
portrayed mermaids as having "moon appearances and hair like a lady's nevertheless their hands and
feet were in their guts and they had tails like fishes."
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Citations of Mermaids
C.J.S. Thompson, a previous caretaker at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, notes in his book
"The Mystery and Lore of Monsters" that "Customs concerning animals half-human and half-fish in
structure have existed for millennia, and the Babylonian divinity Era or Oannes, the Fish-god ... is
generally portrayed as having a whiskery head with a crown and a body like a man, yet from the midriff
downwards he has the state of a fish."

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Greek folklore contains accounts of the god Triton, the merman courier of the ocean, and a few present
day religions including Hinduism and Candomble (an Afro-Brazilian conviction) love mermaid goddesses
right up 'til the present time.
Numerous youngsters are maybe generally acquainted with the Disney rendition of "The Little Mermaid,"
a to some degree cleaned form of a Hans Christian Andersen fantasy originally distributed in 1837. In
certain legends from Scotland and Wales mermaids become friends with — and surprisingly wedded —
people. Meri Lao, in her book "Enticement and the Secret Power of Women," noticed that "In the
Shetland Islands, mermaids are amazingly excellent ladies who live under the ocean; their crossover
appearance is impermanent, the impact being accomplished by wearing the skin of a fish.
They should be exceptionally mindful so as not to lose this while meandering about ashore, on the
grounds that without it they would not be able to get back to their submerged domain."
Some stories about Real Mermaids
In old stories, mermaids were regularly connected with adversity and demise, attracting deviant mariners
off kilter and even onto rough reefs
though not too known as their attractive female partners, there are obviously mermen — and they have
gained notoriety for gathering storms, sinking ships and suffocating mariners. One particularly dreaded
gathering, the Blue Men of the Minch, are said to stay in the Outer Hebrides off the bank of Scotland.
They look like standard men (from the midriff up in any case) except for their blue-colored skin and dim
whiskers.

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Neighborhood legend asserts that prior to laying attack to a boat, the Blue Men regularly challenge its
skipper to a rhyming challenge; if the commander is fast enough of mind and dexterous enough of tongue
he can best the Blue Men and save his mariners from a watery grave.
Japanese legends have a variant of merfolk called kappa. Said to live in Japanese lakes, coasts and
waterways, these youngster size water spirits show up more creature than human, with simian
appearances and turtle shells on their backs. Like the Blue Men, the kappa here and there communicate
with people and challenge them to talent based contests in which the punishment for losing is demise.
Kappa are said to have a hunger for youngsters and those silly enough to swim alone in far off places —
however they particularly prize new cucumbers.
Another famous saying about the mermaid "the real mermaid" isof their parade which they usually are
sighted while performing as they are according to studies are very disciplined, they are seen performing
this parade quite often and is done very uniformly.

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Mermaids/Mermen Real or Reel
We can just theorize the response to this inquiry. Real Mermaids are viewed as legendary animals, yet
there is as yet the topic of where the fantasy of mermaids came from. Maybe there is truth to legend.
It is accepted that the mariners of days of yore who expounded on seeing mermaids were really insane
from months adrift and confused manatees with mermaids. Manatee tails are resemblance of a mermaid
tail and when you've gone for such a long time without seeing a lady, you may very well envision
one.That might possibly be the situation. Mermaids might appear to be an out thing of the creative mind,
yet most of the sea has been neglected so we can't preclude their reality.
There is a logical hypothesis that life started in the ocean and everything advanced from that point, in the
long run to the reason behind animals leaving the ocean. Consider the possibility that mermaids are the
missing connection. Maybe they are our transformative progenitors. While science doesn't affirm this, it is
only something to consider about.
It is an incredible secret. Do we limit every one of the stories of mermaid sightings as only lies or dreams?
where does this artistic creature live?
This is somewhat of an easy decision. Mermaids live in the ocean and occupy marine regions from one
side of the planet to the other, as per legend. Be that as it may, there are additionally accounts of
mermaids living lakes and streams.
Mermaids are additionally normal as otherworldly creatures, or gods. These mermaids are more mystical
and can't be seen, yet can be appealed to and spoken with.
Fiji Mermaids may likewise live in Atlantis. The Lost City of Atlantis is an anecdotal island that sunk and is
currently lowered. In certain accounts and films mermaids live there.
Detailed sightings of the Mermaid parade
Mermaid sightings have been accounted for by numerous mariners and privateers from the beginning of
time. The hypothesis is that they really were confusing a manatee with a mermaid, however who can say
for sure? Here are a couple of verifiable records of mermaid sightings.
Christopher Columbus-Christopher Columbus was the primary reported record of seeing a mermaid. He
composed that the mermaid was not as lovely as legend, and had a manly face. It is accepted that it was
actually a dugong that he saw.

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John Smith-There is a story that John Smith, of Jamestown, located a mermaid. He said she was agile
and "in no way, shape or form ugly." It is far from being obviously true whether it is truly exact or simply
the tale of an essayist.
Edward Teach – Edward Teach was an English privateer who cruised around the West Indies. He was
broadly known as Blackbeard. He was an immense man and quite possibly the most perilous privateers
around. In a log book it is recorded that Blackbeard made a request to avoid a specific region that he
accepted was possessed by merfolk.
Are slrens and Mermaids the same?
While the word 'alarm' is an interpretation of 'mermaid' in numerous dialects there is a contrast between
the two. As indicated by legends mermaids and alarms are not exactly the equivalent. You'll see that the
amphibian humanoids in The Little Mermaid are far unique in relation to the ones in the show Siren.
Alarms and mermaids are both half human, half fish. Indeed, alarms are regularly viewed as an alternate
kind of mermaid.

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Alarms are hunters. Alarms are the miscreants, the ones who draw mariners to their demises. The ones
who you picture with spikes, sharp teeth, webbed hands and furious eyes. They are depicted as immense
monsters who eat people in some cases.Sirens of Homer's Odyssey were vicious animals who lived on
an island and would sing a melody to entrance any mariners who wandered close. They would drive them
to their demise. In some Greek craftsmanship, alarms were portrayed as a bird figure with a lady's head.
Mermaids are delightful, captivating animals who sit on the sea shore singing dazzling melodies. They
are the ones who will protect a suffocating mariner and drag him to the shore. They are the ones who will
experience passionate feelings for people and change into one themselves. This is a speculation,
however more regularly than not, this is the situation for mermaids. A few stories depict mermaids as
malevolent.
Conclusion
They swim the waters around what used to be the previous Syrian and Babylonian domains, and could
well have propelled the half-human half-fish divine beings Atargatis and Ea. What's more, as Michael
Largo notes in his Big, Bad Book of Beasts, the mermaid as a terrible sign could emerge out of boats
cruising excessively near shore, where sirenians gather, just to steer into the rocks. Since if all else fails,
fault the innocuous amphibian well evolved creature.
Be that as it may, as science and reason cemented their hold in European and American culture, the
mermaid slipped farther of regular history and more profound into mariner legend. All things considered,
out on the high oceans, it never damages to dream. That is to say, it worked for Tom Hanks when he got
saved by a mermaid in Splash, and take a gander at him now. He has, similar to, Oscars and stuff.

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