in world folklore, there are many stories about poluzhenschina-poluryba, seductive inhabitant of the deep.The origins of these legends date back to ancient Babylon.Why do they have survived to this day?
warm summer day of 1890 teacher William Monroe was walking along the beach in the Scottish county Keytness.Suddenly a rock protruding from the sea, he saw a creature like a naked woman sitting.If Monroe knew that swim to the rock is extremely dangerous, then he would not have any doubt that he was watching a woman.But there was something strange in all this, and he began to look closely.The lower part of the body was under water, but Monroe saw bare arms, combing her long, shiny brown hair.A few minutes later the creature slipped off the rock mope in and out of sight.
After much internal vibrations of 12 years Monroe sent a note to the London "Times".In the letter he very carefully and coldly described this creature."His head was covered with hair than the specified color (brown), slightly darker on top, bulging forehead, his face plump, rosy cheeks, blue eyes, mouth and lips natural form, similar to the human;teeth, I could not see because his mouth was closed;chest and abdomen, hands and fingers of the same size as that of an adult representative of the human race;how it is being used my fingers (combing), does not imply the presence of membranes, but about this I'm not sure. "
It is quite logical letter that belief in mermaids was not the prerogative of the men going crazy from boredom and abstinence in the long ocean voyages.References to them can be found in the folklore of all countries of the world, and if there is no sea, her home becomes a river or lake.
There are stories of how sea nymphs and pycalki, loving man for many years lived on the coast.Many believed that each mermaid has a crown, without which it can not return to the sea, and if a man be able to steal it and hide, he can marry a mermaid;but if she ever finds her crown, then immediately disappear with her in waves.Similarly, a man can marry a sea nymph, but for this he must steal and hide it a second, "a seal" the skin.In this regard, there are many legends.
famous English explorer Henry Hudson described his meeting with a mermaid as the ordinary case.In his diary for 15 June 1625 meets the following entry: "One of the teams looked over the side, saw a mermaid.Up from the navel of her breasts and back were as a woman ... very white skin and falling down black hair.When she dived, they saw her tail, like the tail of a dolphin brown, spotted by specks, like mackerel. "In Russia, the mermaids were "tall pale and sad";and wrote about them in Thailand, and in Scotland.There, in May 1658 at the mouth of the River Dee had seen a mermaid and "Aberdeen Almanac" promised to travelers that they "definitely will see a flock of lovely mermaids, amazingly beautiful creatures."
As rumors about mermaids multiplied, began to appear inevitable in such cases, fake.They are usually produced by combining the upper part of the monkey with a fish tail.One of them may have made in the XVII century, it was shown at the exhibition of fakes, held by the British Museum in London in 1961.Most of these so-called mermaids were extremely ugly, but caused constant interest.
In one edition of 1717 is the image of a mermaid supposedly authentic.Signature: "It looks like a siren monster caught on the coast of Borneo, in the administrative district of Amboyna.At a length of 1.5 meters, physique like an eel.Having lived on the land for 4 days and seven hours a barrel of water.Periodically make sounds resembling a mouse squeak.Proposed clams, crabs and lobsters have not become ... "
Mermaid interested even Peter 1. He appealed to the Danish colonial priest Francois Valentin, who wrote on the subject.The latter could add little but described another mermaid from Amboyny.She saw more than 50 witnesses, when she frolicked with his friend.The priest was convinced of the veracity of the stories about mermaids."If all the world any stories and trustworthy - wrote it, - then, in particular, those.The fact that some do not believe in them, does not mean anything;there will always be people who deny the existence of cities such as Constantinople, Rome, Cairo, just because they did not have to see them. "
In 1900, in the north of Scotland landowner Aleksavder Gunn again met one of them.When he and his dog tried to save a sheep stuck in a crevice, then he looked up and locked eyes with his elbows on the nearby reef mermaid.In
She had wavy golden-red hair, green eyes and arched eyebrows.It was extremely good.It's hard to say who was struck more - he a mermaid or a dog.However, the first gave vent to his feelings of the dog.Whimpering and tail between his legs, she ran behind the farmer.Gunn saw the mermaid scared, but yet more angry.Later, he told his friend: "What I saw - the truth.I actually met a mermaid. "
50 years, walking in the same place, the two girls ran into a mermaid, left stranded tide.According to the description, it resembled the one that met Hanna.Shortly thereafter, in a completely different part of the world, to a rather meager list of meetings with the mermaids in the XX century it has been added to another.It was January 3rd, 1957, when the traveler Eric de Bishop sailed on his model of the reconstructed ancient Polynesian raft from Tahiti to Chile.In the book "Tahiti Nui" published two years later, he says that the watch suddenly behaved very strangely.The sailor began to prove to everyone that he saw strange creature that jump out of the water on deck.Balancing on the tail, the creature with hair like the finest algae, stopped in front of him.
Touching the intruder, the sailor was in response to a strike that sprawled on the deck, and the creature disappeared in the waves.As the sailor was in the hands of shining fish scales, de Bishop did not doubt the veracity of the story - a meeting with a mermaid really happened.In 1961, four years later, the Isle of Man Tourist company to make a "week of fishing" and offered a prize to anyone who catches a mermaid living in the Irish Sea.Immediately there were some reports of red-haired nymphs frolicking in the waves.Despite this, no one was caught.Irish mermaid proved as elusive as their sisters in the past.
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