Are there real living mermaids in real life: eyewitness stories, photos and videos about mermaids, all the evidence of the world. Do mermaids exist? Where can they be found

13.10.2019

Based on ancient stories and legends, the appearance of mysterious sea creatures is very diverse, however, like their names. For example, in Western Europe more often used the name of a mermaid. In ancient Greece, sirens and tritons. AT ancient rome naiads, nereids and nymphs, but among the Germans the niks and the Balts, strange fish-like creatures were called buzzers and undines. In Scotland, there were also amazing underwater inhabitants and they were called there as silks. The French, without ceremony, called the freaks snake tails.

The appearance of the mysterious marine life on different descriptions eyewitnesses varies greatly. Firstly, mermaids are not only female, but also male creatures, and secondly, their appearance is described in completely different ways. From charming beautiful woman with a big, firm breasts, delicate features, long silky hair, white skin and a shiny fish tail instead of legs, to a very frightening creature with green hair, a face covered with a coral-like substance, ugly gills starting from lower lip and a nasty tail with disgusting growths in the lower part of the body.

The probability that in different parts light, underwater inhabitants can differ in appearance, exist, in exactly the same way as the presence of several species that immediately differ not only externally, but also are fundamentally different levels evolution. Some researchers admit that a person can easily be a descendant of mermaids. After all, it is not in vain that they say that the Ocean is the cradle of life.

So that everything described here does not seem like another unfounded version or too bold an assumption, let's turn to the testified descriptions of meetings with mermaids. This will give good soil for reflection regarding the answer to the question - do mermaids exist or not?

Mentions of mermaids in history

So, the first mention found in the Icelandic chronicles Speculum Regale dates back to the 12th century. In him we are talking about a creature half woman, half fish called "Margigr". According to the description it is absolutely normal woman, except for a large shiny fin instead of legs.

Three centuries later, in the 15th century, in Sigo de la Fond’s book “Wonders of Nature, or a Collection of Extraordinary and Notes of Worthy Phenomena and Adventures in the Whole World of Bodies Arranged in Alphabetical Order” there is a mention of an incident that occurred in Holland in 1403.

After a terrible storm destroyed the West Frisland Dam, a woman was found entangled in seaweed and thrown into a coastal meadow. She was released, brought to Haarlem, dressed, taught to knit stockings and go to church. The woman lived in the city for 15 years, ate ordinary food, for all the time, never learned to speak. She endlessly tried to throw herself into the sea, but it was not destined to be seen. She died as a common person on the land.

In the 17th century, the navigator G. Hudson left an entry in the ship's log, in which he described an amazing creature seen off the coast of the new world. He wrote that one of his crew members suddenly noticed a mermaid overboard. The observer immediately called a comrade and they looked at the creature for a long time. They described her as a bare-chested woman with shoulder-length black hair and a fish tail dotted with black dots like a mackerel. The names of the sailors who watched the mermaid: Thomas Hills and Robert Raynar. Date: June 15, 1608.

Mermaid teen

In the same century, the Spanish journalist Iker Jimenez Elizari published in one of the publications of that time records found in the archives of the church. They dealt with the youth Francisco dela Vega Casara, who lived in Lierganes (Cantabria), who stood out among the inhabitants for his excellent ability to swim. According to a source, at the age of 16, the young man left his hometown and went to study as a carpenter in Las Arenas. In 1674, while swimming, he was picked up by a wave and swept out to sea. All searches were in vain.

In February 1679, near the bay of Cadiz, fishermen caught a strange creature. The creature looked like a tall youth with pale skin and red hair. It had scales along its back and along its belly. There was a brown membrane between the fingers. The prisoner growled, roared and resisted so that he was barely held by 12 people. The creature was sent to the Franciscan monastery, where he spent three weeks, during which the rite of exorcism was performed on him. In January 1680, he was taken to Cantabria, where the mother of her son, who disappeared several years ago, recognized her child in a strange creature. For another two years, the marine inhabitant lived in the village, eating at the same time raw meat and fish, and in 1682 he managed to escape. He dived into sea waters and no one else saw him.

Mermaid's tail

In the 18th century, more precisely in 1737, the Gentleman's magazine published an article about a creature caught near the English city of Exeter. The fishermen, having raised it to the deck, saw in the nets a tail similar to a salmon and, having figured out what was what, they beat the prey with sticks. When the catch, in agony, began to moan humanly, the fishermen untangled the nets and found a male mermaid. The upper part of the torso was absolutely human, except that the nose was slightly flattened, not like in humans. The corpse was exhibited for a long time in Exeter as an exhibit.

Another edition of Scot's magazine in 1739 published an equally curious article that the crew of the Halifax ship caught several mermaids off the coast of Mauritius, fried them and ate them. The team members claimed that the meat of the mermaids reminded them of tender veal.

In the 19th century, there were also several high-profile cases involving mermaids. Here is one of them. On October 31, 1881, one of the Boston newspapers wrote that a corpse of a creature partially similar to a man was found on the shore. The head and body of the corpse was clearly female. Facial features, eyes, nose, teeth, arms, breasts and hair - all this was human, but everything that was below the waist of the deceased resembled a fish tail.

And the 20th century was no exception. Not only did they not stop writing about the existence of mermaids, but on the contrary, the number of such cases only increased.

Mermaids were also found in the USSR

One of the most interesting and high-profile cases of that time became known only recently when the secrecy stamp was removed. The armed forces of the USSR had a chance to meet with representatives of the water depths in 1982 at west bank Lake Baikal, where training camps of combat swimmers of the Trans-Baikal Military District took place.

When scuba divers dive to a depth of 50 meters, they more than once had to come face to face with creatures more than three meters tall, as if covered in some kind of shiny clothes. The heads of the creatures were as if hidden under spherical helmets, but at the same time, the strangers did not have scuba gear or any other equipment for breathing underwater, while they swam with high speed and clearly observed the actions of our combat swimmers.

The commander-in-chief of the exercises decided that it was worth getting to know the mysterious "colleagues" better and ordered to catch one of them. A special team of seven experienced scuba divers and an officer was assembled, armed with a thin and strong net. However, at the moment when the hunters were trying to throw a net on one of the strangers, some powerful force impulse instantly pushed the entire group to the surface of the lake. As a result of the abrupt ascent without the necessary decompression stops, all members of the crew fell ill with decompression sickness. Three died a few days later, the rest remained disabled.

Residents of the United States also found mermaids

In August 1992, there was also no less interesting case. A group of fishermen from the village of Key Beach (Florida), a kilometer from the coast, noticed “half-human, half-seal” lying on the water with large human-like heads, large eyes and long arms ending in membranous brushes. The creatures, noticing the approaching longboat, swam aside, made a circle around the ship and went into the depths. An hour later, the fishermen pulled out the fishing net and found that it was cut in several places.

Another strange meeting of people and mysterious underwater inhabitants occurred several years ago. The Local History Museum in Tombstone, in the southern United States, has a large glass display case. It contains a creature very similar to sea cow, exterminated by people 150 years ago, that's just top part this creature is very similar to a person.

Round eyes, nose, ears, neck, shoulders, arms, everything is human. Rib cage has well-developed ribs, which means that the creature breathes atmospheric air. The lower part of the object is an ordinary fish tail. Even if a person does not want to believe in the existence of mermaids, then this exhibit proves that mermaids exist. In addition, local fishermen claim that such mermaids periodically fall into their nets, but they, considering them mutants, throw them back.

From all of the above, it becomes clear that, most likely, mermaids exist. Who they are is not known. Perhaps a species that develops in parallel, and evolve along with humanity. After all, the oceans today have been studied much less than space. A person is looking for intelligent beings outside the galaxy, and it is possible that they have always been with us, we just do not want to believe in them. It is quite real that among them there is a variety of species. This fact may well explain why there is such a difference in the descriptions of these creatures. Perhaps someday a person, having begun to conquer the depths of water, will find that he is not alone and brothers in mind have always been there, as soon as he extended his hand.

Photos taken in Poland real mermaid, which is hidden from prying eyes by the military ...

Mermaids are creatures, legends about which can be found in the mythology of peoples living in all parts of the world. Wherever there are some water bodies - lakes, seas or oceans, local mythology keeps stories about the mysterious inhabitants of the depths. name them fairy tale characters even atheists and religious figures cannot be 100% certain, because at least once a decade shocking evidence of the existence of mermaids appears.

Where do mermaids come from and what do they look like?

Siren, undine, naiad, mavka - many names of the same creature, which in Slavic history called "mermaid". The ancestor of this term was the word "channel", denoting the path laid by the river flow. It was believed that it was there that the lost souls of unbaptized baby girls who died on Trinity week, girls who drowned or committed suicide before marriage, and also who decided to become guardians of the waters of their own free will live.

To this day, in some villages of the Old Believers, there are legends that if a representative of the weaker sex is not happy with life on earth due to loneliness, poverty or the death of her parents, she can ask the forest spirits to take her to her swamp or lake to find eternal rest.

Popular beliefs mermaids are credited with the ability to transform into animals - birds, frogs, squirrels, hares, cows or rats. But more familiar to them is the appearance of a young girl or woman, in whom instead of legs you can see a long tail resembling a fish. In Little Russia and Galicia, people believed that a mermaid could turn him into legs if she wished. By the way, the Greeks had a similar idea: they portrayed the sirens exclusively as fair maidens, no different from ordinary girls. To understand that in front of him was a siren, and not a young charmer, the sailor could only find himself face to face with his own death: the sirens lured men with seductive singing and mercilessly killed.

According to all nationalities, mermaids wear hairstyles exclusively from loose hair. This sign in ancient times made it possible to distinguish living girls from paranormal creatures. The fact is that Christian women always covered their heads with a scarf, so simple hair is a sign that a mermaid is standing in front of a person. In the church books of Ukraine, there is a record of a girl who left home on the eve of the wedding and became a mermaid. Her father understood everything when he saw her at night near the house with curls scattered over her shoulders and “married” her with a pillar so that her soul would no longer bother him.

Real eyewitness stories about mermaids

It is known that water nymphs choose only men as the object of their hunting. In Scotland and Ireland, until now, some of them always carry a needle with them to prick a mermaid, who is afraid of red-hot iron like fire, when attacked, in order to save her life. Meeting with her is life-threatening, because this creature will try to lure the victim into the depths and drown or tickle to death. But history knows the stories of the lucky ones who miraculously survived after communicating with a mermaid.

The first documented mention of it refers to XII century. The Icelandic chronicle Speculum Regale tells of a woman with a fish tail who was caught and imprisoned by the inhabitants of a coastal village. It is not known whether she knew how to speak and whether she survived after meeting with superstitious peasants, but eyewitnesses said that they managed to give her the name Margigr.

In 1403 in Holland, the author of the book “Wonders of Nature, or a Collection of Extraordinary and Notes of Worthy Phenomena and Adventures in the Whole World of Bodies, Arranged in Alphabetical Order” and collector of rarities Sigot de la Fund meets a girl that people found on the shore when she asked for help. She had a fin, besides, she was thrown out during a storm, so she was given the name Nereid. The mermaid was brought to the city, taught to cook, wash and care for livestock. It is known that Nereid spent more than 15 years with people - and every day she tried to return home, to the depths of the sea. Once she still sailed away, never having learned to speak and understand human language.

On June 16, 1608, the navigator Henry Hudson, after whom the strait was later named, set off on a journey with a group of sailors. On the very first day on the high seas, far from civilization, they saw a girl rocking on the waves, singing in a charming voice.

"Young beauty bare chested, black hair and a mackerel tail, which we did not dare to approach.

So the sailors later wrote in the logbook. Upon learning of this case, Peter I asked the clergy from Denmark for advice on whether it was possible to believe in these stories. Bishop François Valentin answered him that the other day he personally saw a mermaid and witnesses to this - fifty people.

In 1737, the English men's newspaper Gentleman's magazine published an article about how fishermen, along with a fish floundering in a net, brought a strange creature aboard the past weekend. Of course, they heard about mermaids, but the catch was... a man with a fish tail! Strange creature so frightened the poor that they beat the booty to death. The corpse of the monster was bought and displayed for several centuries in the Exter Museum.

Eyewitnesses reported:

“This creature amazed the imagination and made human groans. When we came to ourselves, we saw that it was a man with a white tail and a webbed fin covered with scales. The creature's appearance was repulsive and remarkably human-like at the same time."

1890 in Scotland was marked by the appearance of a whole family of mermaids near the Orkney Islands. Three girls swam in the water, laughed and fished, but never swam close to people. It cannot be said that they were afraid of a person - rather, they avoided it. In the absence of fishermen, the nymphs rested on the coastal rocks. It is known that mermaids have lived in these parts for more than 10 years. In 1900, a Scottish farmer caught one of the sea maidens by surprise:

“Somehow I had to go with my dog to a distant ravine in order to pull out a sheep that had fallen into it. Moving along the ravine in search of a sheep, I noticed the unnatural anxiety of the dog, which began to howl in fright. Looking into the ravine, I saw a mermaid with red curly hair and sea-green eyes. The mermaid was the size of a man, very beautiful, but with such a fierce expression on her face that I rushed away from her in horror. Running away, I realized that the mermaid had fallen into the ravine because of the low tide and had to wait for the tide there in order to swim back into the sea. But I didn't want to help her."

Throughout the 20th century, mermaids have been seen in Chile, the United States of America, Polynesia and Zambia. In 1982, nymphs were first discovered in the USSR, where previously they did not believe in stories about otherworldly creatures living in water bodies. During a workout combat swimmers on Lake Baikal, they encountered a flock of fish with a female body under water. After surfacing, they told about what they saw and received an order to establish contact with the strange inhabitants of Baikal. As soon as they swam up to the mermaids, you threw them ashore like a blast wave, because of which the scuba divers died one after another in a few days, and the survivors became disabled.

The last mention of mermaids in the press was articles written by journalists from many countries after the appearance on the Internet of photos from a military training ground in Poland in 2015. The pictures clearly show that people in protective suits are carrying something the size of a man, but with a fish tail. Their burden weighs quite a lot, because six people carried the stretcher at the same time.

The Polish government left the photos without comment. And can conservative science find an explanation for the existence of mermaids?

In ancient times, our lands were inhabited by all kinds of creatures, our distant ancestors owned non-mental secrets, which, alas, are lost in our time. And one of these secrets was associated with amazing creatures that became the heroes of many legends and stories - and these are mermaids. The week that lasted from Monday of the Trinity Week and right up to the Monday of the next week, the Spirit of the Day, used to be popularly called the “mermaid” or it was also called the “dirty week”. People believed that before this period, all mermaids lived calmly in reservoirs and did not leave their homes unless absolutely necessary.

Who are they, in fact, these creatures who, according to legend, frightened people with their laughter, and who could also tickle people to death? The roots of the origin of mermaids go back to ancient pagan times. Perhaps, in those distant times, these creatures were real goddesses of water, like the Greek nymphs. Our ancestors believed that mermaids appeared from the souls of deceased relatives. Previously, according to ancient customs, people were buried in mounds, at a crossroads, in forests, and people were also buried by dipping into the water.

In order to appease the soul of the mermaid, the peasants came to the forest, where they gathered feasts and feasts and made small sacrifices to the souls of the mermaids. Such trips were arranged on the modern Day of Spirits or Trinity Day.

Russian Scientist V.F. Snegirev suggested that all beliefs about mermaids have a very close origin. Differences are determined only climatic conditions, soil and folk traditions.

The oldest legend tells of creatures that look like people, but who had a tail instead of legs and they were born at the moment when Satan fell from heaven. Allegedly, those who were his like-minded people were also driven out of paradise and fell into the water.

In pagan times, mermaids were considered not only the goddesses of water bodies, who constantly demanded sacrifice, but it was also believed that they were the keepers of countless treasures and called them enchantresses.

The term "mermaid" has several origins. The first is associated with the word "channel", and the second from the word "light brown", which meant the color of the hair of these creatures. Mermaids were the owners of long, thick blond hair. They streamed in light waves from their heads and covered their entire body, which was completely naked. In the west, people believed that mermaids were always gracefully dressed in fishing nets.

It was believed that mermaids replenished their ranks at the expense of small infant girls who were born dead or those who died unbaptized, as well as at the expense of drowned women and suicides. Of course, it used to be believed that a girl who wanted to swim without a pectoral cross could also doom herself to life among mermaids, but these days reject this statement.

AT modern world many girls themselves would like to get into the brotherhood of mermaids, because only mermaids had eternal youth and extraordinary beauty. Everyone thinks that mermaids live in beautiful crystal castles, which are located at the very depths, that their chief is the merman himself, and without his order they have no right not to destroy, not to frighten a person.

Mermaids have a charming property, this is their voice. There are many legends about the songs of mermaids that enchant people and beckon. Mermaids most they spend their lives in the water, but from the day of Semik to the day of Petrov they come out onto land and live in trees. During this period, mermaids indulge in all sorts of pleasures.

Trinity Eve is the most best period in the lives of mermaids. They can run through the rye without any signs of clothing, clap their hands and shout loudly: “Bang, bang! Straw Spirit! My mother gave birth to me, laid me unbaptized! Our ancestors assured that after such pampering of mermaids, the harvest was the best, even ordinary grass grew better where the mermaids ran. On such nights, mermaids often attacked people, but there were several means against them. Wormwood grass, pectoral crosses and crosses drawn on the ground protected people. A circle was drawn around such a cross, and they stood in it, the only way to be saved, but not everyone could resist the lovely mermaid and went beyond the circle. Our ancestors even got used to catching mermaids, you had to grab her by the hand and tie a pectoral cross on her and you could lead her home. Mermaids deftly coped with any housework and were quiet, unlike meat women who loved to grumble, mermaids ate only steam. But they live in slavery more than a year and the next mermaid week they get freedom and hide at the bottom of the reservoir.

There was a saying that if a mermaid chooses her chosen one, she will tickle him to death and take him to the bottom, where he will rise and live happy life in luxury. Mermaids even had weddings that took place on sparrow night, which was the shortest.

Babies who did not have time to be baptized and who turned into mermaids could receive forgiveness. When they were seven years old, they were taken out into the air, where they asked three times to be baptized. If someone came, hearing their prayers, he had to say: "I baptize you, Ivan and Mary, in the Name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit." Therefore, it was believed that if the soul of a child was heard, then angels took it away, and if not, then impure forces.

Modern scientists and various sciences cannot answer various questions that relate to these unusual creatures, and they are in constant search for something new that can somehow open the veil over this mystery. Maybe someday we will be able to learn at least a part of what our Ancestors owned.

Mermaids are mentioned not only in mythology, but also in the annals of many peoples, as well as in the stories of sailors and farmers. The Greeks called them naiads and sirens, the Baltics - undines. Scientists have long debated whether mermaids really exist.

Mermaid appearance

According to the legends, sirens look different. There are 3 options appearance these sea creatures.

Half fish, half woman. A beautiful creature with a pretty face and snow-white skin, the upper half of the body of which does not differ from the appearance of an earthly woman. In most cases, the mermaids seen by people are brunettes. However, the scaly tail, instead of human legs, indicates maritime origin undines.
Little mermaid. Some people have seen a miniature creature that looks like a child near the shore. The main difference from the usual three year old girl- developed female breast and fishtail.
Monster. Sometimes a mermaid is a monster with green hair sharp teeth and gills, with growths on the face and tail.

It is possible that among the sirens there is a division into species, so eyewitnesses describe not only charming, but also terrible creatures.

Among the mysterious marine inhabitants there are also males. The ancient Greeks called them tritons.

Undines can live in the seas and in the rivers, as in Slavic mythology. According to one of the myths, drowned girls become river spirits. However real mermaids different from the incorporeal beauties that are depicted in legends. There are people who were lucky enough to touch the naiads, to hear their voice.

Some researchers put forward a hypothesis: the inhabitants of the seas could be the distant ancestors of people. Scientific evidence this hypothesis is not yet available, but numerous episodes of encounters with naiads suggest that mermaids exist.

Contacts with people

One of the first references to a "half-fish" with the face and body of a woman can be found in Icelandic chronicles of the 12th century. "Monster" was seen in the waves of the Greenland Sea. The Icelanders named the unusual find "Margigr". At that time, meeting with a humanoid tailed creature was a shock to superstitious people. Whether the mermaid escaped from her pursuers, the chronicles do not report.

Other information about naiads:

Sigo de la Fond's book Wonders of Nature tells of a siren that was found in Holland. In 1403, during a monstrous storm, waves threw a mermaid onto land, entangled in seaweed. In this form, the siren was found by women. She was brought to Haarlem, dressed and began to teach the intricacies of human life. The mermaid has partially adapted among people. She knew how to knit, attended church, but she never learned to speak. An unusual resident of Haarlem tried several times to return to her native element, but her attempts were unsuccessful. The sea beauty died on land 15 years after meeting people.
The famous discoverer of the territories, Henry Hudson, in his logbook, described an incident that happened to two people from his team. On June 15, 1608, the sailors saw a dark-haired woman overboard. The tail, speckled with black dots, is the only thing that distinguished the undine from earthly women.
On October 31, 1881, American newspapers informed the public about a sensation: the body of a mermaid with no signs of life was caught in the bay. An unusual find was delivered to New Orleans. The corpse was examined by well-known scientists, journalists. For the first time, researchers are faced with an irrefutable fact: sirens exist.
In 1890, off the coast of Scotland, people saw a mermaid several times. The dark-haired beauty swam in the sea, then rested on the underwater rocks. It is worth saying that the Orkney Islands attract sirens with special force. Meetings with Undines are mentioned by some of our contemporaries living in Scotland, but not every eyewitness is believed by friends and relatives.

This is only a small part of the stories concerning humanoid beings. It can be said that the stories about sirens are fiction, but physical evidence of the existence of newts and naiads (their remains) cannot be called a myth with all desire.

Mermaid murders

Since ancient times, people have been interested in unusual creatures, but when meeting with a mermaid, not everyone behaved humanely and prudently. Fear and hunting instinct pushed the sailors to cruel deeds. As the legends say, passion often broke out between undines and people. The main passion of the sailors was the desire to catch an unusual creature.

Some printed publications described the murders of mermaids.

In 1737 in English magazine it was reported that off the coast of the town of Exter, fishermen, along with their catch, raised a male mermaid to the deck. Seeing that an unusual creature was trying to get out of the nets, the men beat him with sticks. The cries and groans of the captive did not stop the angry sailors. When the inhabitant of the seas stopped moving, they pulled him out of the nets and examined him. The resemblance of a newt to a man was striking. The corpse of the murdered "sea creature" was taken to the Exter Museum. There it was shown to visitors as an exhibit.
On the coast of Mauritius, sailors of the English ship Halifax in 1739 killed several marine inhabitants. The bodies of the unfortunate undines were roasted and eaten.
Cases of killing and eating sirens were also observed in Central Africa. There are reports from missionaries that report the alarming tastes of the natives. The ministers of the church sought to find out if the sirens had a soul. The presence of a soul in a mermaid would be proof of the ongoing African tribes cannibalism.
AT early XIX century, off the coast of Ireland, a group of people noticed a black-haired mermaid. One of the men shot her and took the life of the mermaid.
In 1830, a little mermaid was seen near one of the Hebrides. Not afraid of people, the siren splashed in the water. The men tried to catch her to no avail. The local boy began to throw stones, one of which killed the siren. The corpse of the unfortunate was thrown ashore by the waves. An English explorer in 1900 talked with eyewitnesses who touched the body of a dead mermaid. You have to believe that everything they say is true.

love stories

The time of hunting for sirens is over, and now there is pure interest. Most of all, our imagination excites love stories between naiads and people.

Some Greek families who have kept records of the origin of their distant ancestors are sure that the blood of mermaids flows in their veins. AT Ancient Greece stories of men being seduced by naiads and sirens were not considered sensational.

At that time, the attitude of people towards others sentient beings was respectful, so women and men were not afraid of the thought of intermarrying with the inhabitants of the seas and rivers. So, the founders of the Irish clan Makhkayer were a man and a mermaid.

The fact that mermaids exist is confirmed by several testimonies:

In one of the villages of Scotland, an affair broke out between an undine and a local shepherd, but the guy was not distinguished by devotion to his chosen one. Feeling that her beloved was avoiding her and did not want further communication, the mermaid hit him with a stone. Soon the shepherd died.
At the beginning of the 20th century, in the Russian village of Maltseva, two young men married river beauties. Before the wedding, the naiads were baptized.
In the early 2000s A drama broke out in a Tuvan village: a young man named Saygyr fell in love with a river mermaid. Every morning the young shepherd hurried to the river, where the undine was waiting for him. When Saygyr's parents found out who their son was in love with, they turned to the shaman for advice and help. The shaman said that the river creature had bewitched the guy. To free Saygyr from love addiction, the sorcerer performed the rite. The mermaid stopped showing herself to her earthly "groom".

Modern evidence of sirens

Inhabitants sea depths in past centuries showed trust in people. For this, the undines often paid with their lives. In the modern world, sea beauties are more careful than before.

Reasons for infrequent meetings with undines:

pollution of seas and rivers;
abundance of water transport;
wary attitude of people towards sirens.

In 1992, fishermen from the American village of Key Beach noticed mermaids near the shore. The agile creatures managed to escape. Pulling out the fishing net, the men saw that it had been cut.

Sirens can be found off the coast of Scotland to this day. One elderly fisherman told reporters that the mermaid became his assistant. A few years ago, he caught an undine, but then, touched by her plaintive moans, he released him into the wild. Since then, the mermaid has been catching a lot of fish in his net. Every trip to the sea becomes a holiday for a Scot.

All of this evidence suggests that sirens do, in fact, inhabit the seas.

Conclusion

In the annals, scientific reports and newspapers there are many reminders of women with fish tails. Superstitious people considered undines to be demonic creatures. Romantic natures sympathized with the cute humanoid creatures that were cruelly treated by the inhabitants of the land. Nowadays, the press reports on new episodes of "communication" of people with sea creatures. Evidence of the real nature of the sirens is not only the words of eyewitnesses, but also the remains of marine inhabitants.

A mermaid is a mythical image of a woman with a fish tail, a protector of nature, an evil spirit and even a legendary character.

The prevalence of one or another description essentially depends on the point of view of which of the peoples to answer the question “are there mermaids, and who are they really?”.

The existence of mermaids has often been questioned from the point of view of science, which is not surprising given the number of hoaxes and, of which modern history accumulated a fair amount. What can we say about the reputation that has developed with the idea of \u200b\u200bthe existence of a fish woman?

However, in folklore, this character still occupies the position of a sought-after and popular hero.

Representation of the Slavs about the mermaid

First of all, it is worth noting that the original image of a mermaid appeared precisely among the Slavs.

Later, he lost his originality, becoming another name for sea maidens.

It is possible that such an image was chosen due to the ratio of the Moon and water element(high and low tide) and feminine this element.

Unfortunately, the details about this image have not been preserved, it is only known that Atargata was not an evil goddess, she patronized singing and the arts.

Japan is also not left out.

And in Japanese folklore there is a creature that vaguely resembles a mermaid. It is called ninge and is more of a fish than a hybrid.

Ninge is a huge carp with golden scales, a monkey mouth full of small sharp teeth, and small fins.

This creature cannot die from natural causes, and its meat, according to legend, can give a person unprecedented longevity. At the same time, eating nange meat threatens a person with dangers and failures, and therefore rarely anyone agrees to try a dish from such a rare curiosity.

Scotland has contributed

Scottish silks are also mermaids, in a way.

In folklore, it is a seal with androgynous features, a shapeshifter capable of taking human form.

Silks are able to stay under water for an extremely long time, but must float to the surface for a breath of air.

Once every 9 days, such a "mermaid" goes to people, leaving her skin on the shore.

Whoever finds her is able to force the silk to marry. As a result, a person with membranes and gills, inspired by good luck and blessings, may appear in the world. sea element.

However, the union with silk itself does not last long and often ends in the death of a person who is carried away by a partner into the expanses of water.

Today, there is evidence that some were invented or embellished by human imagination, but the image itself continues to evolve, leaving behind more questions than answers.

Vision different peoples only confirms this by demonstrating how powerful ideas about the secret, influenced external factors, including the origin of the ethnic group.