I seen this movie about mermiads and how this boy turn into one.. also this lady saw a mermiad in reall life in haiti
2007-03-21 08:57:06 · 14 answers · asked by alexander w 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Manatees are at the base of the mermaid legend.
2007-03-21 10:57:49 · answer #1 · answered by Terry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because I don't know how old you are, I'm giving the benefit of the doubt, and I'm actually going to answer this thing. First, to date, no one has even seen a real mermaid that has absolute proof. The early Europeans found what they thought were Mermaids, and found them to be, unfortunately for them, Manatees. The movies about them are as real as movies like Monsters, inc. Mermaids are legends, like a lot of other legends, they come from wild imagination that way way back, people sometimes let get the better of them. Sorry, unless there's irrefutable proof from a reasonable source, no, there's no such thing as mermaids, beyond what you see in movies and books.
2007-03-25 04:25:29 · answer #2 · answered by zephyron_hollow 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not? Maybe there were Mermaids at one point in history, we may never know. But then again, think about the people who were alive back then, do you think if they saw something far off that looked vaguely like a Mermaid that possibly they assumed it was and created the whole entire beast from their minds. Also consider the source, ancient people were kings of tall-tales and story-telling. Maybe they made it all up to explain the "unexplained", or maybe they were spot-on and we humans now of days are just close-minded?
I believe that most, if not all sitings of "mermaids" are really dolphins and such, but I could be entirely wrong.
2007-03-24 16:54:14 · answer #3 · answered by thecrazycatlady12 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there where fish that are now extinct and they resembled men . that is where the legend came from. but there are now manatees that people say are the modern day mermaids now and guess what the are nearly extinct too. see a pattern
2007-03-21 16:08:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they are real. One of my family members by my third aunt's great grandfather's 5th cousin was as mermer (a male mermaid).
2007-03-21 16:14:17 · answer #5 · answered by watanake 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah of course i love them they are my hereos and friends i talk to them ever time i go to the ocean and they read my mind and i can feel it. they are alsome check out mary lary at mermaids.com power to the mermaids
2007-03-21 16:07:27 · answer #6 · answered by kyle.petty45 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yea my best friends wife, her cousin, his sisters boyfriends aunt(twice removed)her sons grandpa, and his neice and finally her 2nd cousin saw one up in hawaii like 5 years ago..
thanks for the points..
2007-03-21 16:29:56 · answer #7 · answered by Kassie.™ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No but if u believe in them enough u might see one.
2007-03-21 16:13:50 · answer #8 · answered by missgigglebunny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. That is like saying unicorns and faires are real.
2007-03-21 21:08:56 · answer #9 · answered by ~αlbα~ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course
2007-03-23 20:21:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋