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Mermaid Fact Or Myths

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Merfolk of the Ocean : Fact or Myth?
From the rumbling murmurs of the sea lies a mystery sailors and explorers have tried to find and exploit to the world (P), a thought-to-be-myth rooted deep into history that may or may not inhabit the gentle sea waves: mermaids. According to Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, a mermaid is “in folklore, [a] sea-dwelling creature commonly represented as having the head and body of a woman and a fishtail instead of legs” (Mermaid). Stories of these beings began way back thousands of years ago, claims of sightings all over the world from ocean sailors to locals bound to the coast. Along with the growth of these stories are the theories that make us question what these beauties really were, from either a stout sea manatee to a big change in evolution. The question whether …show more content…

However, based on the many aging claims of mermaid sightings all over the globe, the numerous fraud accounts of the mythical creature, or the chances whether sailors have mistaken some tailed-creature of the ocean for a mermaid, it all seems to lead to the conclusion that maybe these ladies of the sea may just be a lie of childhood we wish to be true.
Starting from thousands of years ago, tales of a svelte woman with half the body of a fish’s blossomed along ocean-faring nations. One story in particular originates from seventeenth century Holland. It tells of a mermaid that had entered a dike through Holland. She soon after “became a productive citizen, learned to speak Dutch, performed household chores and converted to Catholicism” (Radford) as the story tells.

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