apart from the movies, are there an evidence of such,i have never seen any documentation of such even in the history chanel or any docunentatry, but people believe in the existence of those, are they reall or just myth
2006-10-01 22:03:55 · 8 answers · asked by chief 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
in Copenhagen (capital of denmark), there is the statue of the little mermaid perched on a rock, (hence the story). it could be mythical, but it could have existed. why not? we have written and visual documentation of mermaids, dragons, etc... something must be in it. but also, i think that is man exaggerated stories. have you ever heard of the little girl in south america born with her legs together, which looks uncanningly like a mermaid tail? well that could have been a start for the legend. or like some ppl with this condition that have severe facial hair...well, i have heard that is how the werewolf legend started! anything could be.
personally i will never rule out any possibilities
2006-10-02 00:31:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I read somewhere that the myth about sirens and mermaids stems from seals. Seals makes sounds that sounds like women crying and they have the tails of mermaids. (A woman in my area is thought to have drowned when she went out on thin ice to help a "woman" in need that turned out to be a seal.) There are also children born with their legs grown together so that they look like mermaids. One little girl has been in the news not long ago since she was taking her first steps after surgery.
2006-10-01 22:10:55 · answer #2 · answered by *duh* 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Myth.
There have been a few attempts by con artists to make fake ones, by sewing monkey bodies to fish tails.
Probably these myths arose as result of people hearing strange sounds at sea and desperate sailors spending too long in their ships.
There is a type of animal known as a manatee which is loosely named after the mermaid (aquatic mammal, order Sirenia... siren - mermaid) because people apparently used to mistake them for mermaids... although I am not sure how.
2006-10-01 22:10:24 · answer #3 · answered by HP 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to an Indonesian fisherman my husband met a few weeks ago, the mermaid myth is real but it doesn't look like the one movies normally potrays. According to the fisherman, he and other Indonesian fisherman was fishing and caught it. What the fishermen did was to cut the upper part of the mermaid and ate the bottom part. I'm not joking, the fisherman that my husband met cannot eat it, he said its like cannibalism. I never believe it myself until my husband told me the fisherman's story which correspond to another persons story, who told my husband's family that mermaid are real and fishermen in Indonesia used to catch it. When asked what they do with it, cut the tail and throw the upper part back to see. That was about 15 years ago.
2006-10-01 23:36:16 · answer #4 · answered by etang 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The seal reference is a good one. If you've been sailing for months and ran out of fresh water, you see things. Also, another animal that doesn't make much of a sound that has been associated with the mermaid myth is the Manatee. Seals don't really migrate that far, so I could see it happening.
2006-10-01 22:33:55 · answer #5 · answered by Danielle 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. It is just a myth. Just like Santa Clause.
2006-10-01 22:07:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As real as Jesus,,, If you want to beleive in mermaids go for it. Throw in mother goose as well
2006-10-01 22:09:18 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No
2006-10-01 22:12:04 · answer #8 · answered by It Co$t To Be Around The Bo$$ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋