2007-02-26 23:51:06 · 6 answers · asked by venkatraman s 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
What is reality? Is there any real evidence of Nessie or Bigfoot?
Personally, I find it hard to believe that a sailor saw a manatee and thought it was a beautiful maiden. As to an entire culture beneath the seas, I have no support of it, but it would be nice if it did exist
2007-02-27 00:43:24 · answer #1 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It's impossible. I have heard that European sailors might have seen manatees or seals and thought they looked human. They must have been away at sea for an awfully long time to think manatees looked like beautiful women.
I saw a stuffed mermaid in the Ripley's Believe Or Not Museum in Florida. It was the top half of a monkey attached to the back half of a fish, and it was supposed used by famed circus huckster P. T. Barnum in the 1800s. It didn't look anything like Daryl Hannah.
2007-02-27 00:19:19 · answer #2 · answered by majnun99 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is believed that mermaids are actually manatees! Sailors were at sea for so long that they would hallucinate and sea these creatures as womanly figures which they called mermaids.
They go way back in mythology so I doubt they exist but there is an explanation at least. Whether it's true or not, who knows!
2007-02-27 05:36:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doubtful
2007-03-02 16:23:04 · answer #4 · answered by Celeste 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they don't, but they make good stories, and keep our imagination active.
2007-02-28 19:22:01 · answer #5 · answered by wizard of the East 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no they dont.mermaids r actually manmaid fantasies.
2007-03-02 21:02:52 · answer #6 · answered by mots 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋