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🧜🏻♀️ Mermaid Myths 🧜🏻♀️ By Cynthia O'Brien (Fast Facts (Sirens…
🧜🏻♀️ Mermaid Myths 🧜🏻♀️
By Cynthia O'Brien
Mermaids have the power to see into the future
Some mermaids hide behind rocks to avoid being seen
Facts in the blue bubbles
A mermaid called Lara lures men to live under the sea with her forever
Mermaids make their homes in underwater caves or coral reefs
Mermaid suddenly appear from beneath the water
Mermaid might be spotted sitting out on a rock out in the sea
Locals on the Kei islands say that mermaid sighting are common
Early shipwrecks were often blamed on mermaids
Some nineteenth-century mermaid fakes are on display in museums
Barnum charged 50¢ admission to his exhibit of the feejee mermaid.That was a lot in those days, and he had made a fortune.
In West African myth, Oshun is the goddess of fresh water lakes and rivers
Statues of a mermaid called Suvannamaccha appear all over thailand
Hannah Fraser, a professional mermaid, made her first mermaid tail when she was nine years old. A mermaid tail is an expensive accessory. Just one can cost as much as $25,000!
All mermaids must take good care of their hair.
The Starbucks coffee company started in Seattle, Washington, a seaside city. Its logo is a two-tailed mermaid.
Different types of mermaids or creatures that were in the book
Mermaid
Merrows - Irish mermaids?
Sirens - half woman have bird
Ceasg - Scottish mermaid
Iara - a mermaid that rules the waters in Brazil
Nymphs - look like humans but live under the sea
La Sirene - mermaid from Haiti
MorVeren - ...
Nu Gua - a Chinese water goddess
Ningyo - has a fish-like face, a scaly body, and long fingers with claws.
Oshui - a water goddess who can be good or evil
Sedna - water goddess
Ben Varrey - a mermaid that lives near the shore of a island in the Irish sea
Suvannamaccha - A myth from Thailand and south east asia
Mélusine - a French mermaid
Rusalka - Slavic water nymphs
Fast Facts
Sirens Used their beautiful voices to lure sailors, causing ships to crash in the rocks
Sirenomelia, or "mermaid syndrome" is amedacial condition in which babies are born with their legs fused together. Which makes them look like mermaids.
A
ceasg
might hide her soul in her underwater cave.
If a
ningyo
cries, she may turn into a human
Ancient cave paintings in karoo, South Africa, seem to depict mermaids. The San people created this rock art thousands of years ago.
Cape Breton's early settlers were Scottish and Irish people, who brought mermaid tails with them.
Manatees are slow moving, and passing ships sometimes insure them. People also used to hunt them. The Florida manatee was endangered, but is air now protected by law.
After Shango sent her away. Oba fell to Earth and became the Oba River in West Africa.
If a mermaid kisses a human that person can breathe underwater
Mi'Kmaq water spirits are called sabawaelnu. They are mermaids who control the weather. Their name means "halfway people."
The television program Animal Planet aired a show in 2013 called Mermaids: The New Evidence. The show featured a video of a webbed hand. Over three million people tuned in to watch. Afterwards, the show's producers. admitted that the video was a hoax.
The egg cascs of dogfish and skate are called mermaid's purses. Finding one is thought to bring luck in money matters.
If people wear ferns in their hair when swimming. A rusalka cannot drown them.
In Andersen's talc, a mermaid can live for hundreds of years. When she dies, she becomes sea foam.
A special-effects company made a mermaid tail for a New Zealand woman so that she could swim. She had lost her legs in an accident.
Today even babies can dress up as merfolk
In May 2010. The Little Mermaid statue travelled to Shanghai for Expo 2010. It was on display there for six months.
In the 1960s, a film company built a miniature mermaid village at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. In the end, it was too difficult to film underwater, so the directors abandoned the village.
