While Greek legend celebrates mermaids as half-human, half-fish girls with great beauty and enchanting voices, reality records the stark contrast: small, odd-shaped creatures snobbish and never raised his voice.
The first time the mermaid stepped out of myth to appear before the naked eye was in 1403. Rapidly receding floodwaters left her stranded on the coast of Eton, Netherlands, and was later found by a group of fishermen. see. According to the book “Speculum Mundi” published in 1635, written by the British minister John Swan himself about this event, the mermaid appeared to soon integrate into the “earthly” life, liked to wear beautiful clothes, and liked to walk. play, listen to the ladies confiding, but she never opens her mouth to talk.
In 1738, the London Daily published a shocking picture: a small mermaid discovered on the shores of the Hebrides, stoned to death because it was mistaken for a monster. After that, the ill-fated mermaid was carefully buried, and if anyone expressed any doubts, any old person or child in the village would willingly swear a poison oath to prove the story 100% true.
In 2006, the inhabitants of the East Sea of Russia discovered a corpse of a mermaid! The myth of a blonde fairy with a crystal clear voice has finally been revealed.
The fishermen were really surprised when they witnessed a body with a tail like a dead fish, washed up on the beach. Scientists were immediately invited to an autopsy. Currently, the Russian organization of marine strange creatures still has no exact answer about this mermaid.
Recently, American zoologist Carles Banze published an essay “Biological basis of mermaids” in Limnology & Oceanology, a very prestigious American scientific journal. The article reads: “Mermaid, mermaid, humanoid sea monsters… let’s call them mermaids – in legends and in eyewitness accounts or in pictures drawn by the ancients. , we see that mermaids in general have two eyes that look in the same direction like humans, but don’t have to look in opposite directions like fish.
The hand of the mermaid has a thumb pointing horizontally like a human, convenient for holding work tools. The descriptions all show that the mermaid has a rather large head compared to the general body, indicating that the brain is quite developed. The lower body of mermaids is mostly paddle-shaped, with a fan at the end similar to a whale’s tail. The scales on the body are actually thickened horny skin that looks rough like fish scales …”.
Explaining the fact that today mermaids are no longer present in nature, Banze is a bit extreme when he thinks that the reason is due to the development of the modern world that pollutes the ecological environment and due to fishing. Insatiable seafood has led to the extinction of mermaids.
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