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    Are Mermaids Real?

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    Are Mermaids Real? Three years ago, the highly trusted television channel, Animal Planet aired a show showing evidence of mermaids being real. The programmed was filmed as a documentary and included complete interviews with so-called scientists, who were actually actors. The ‘documentary’ also included phone and camera footage from staged events of mermaid encounters. The only evidence provided for the documentary’s accusations around mermaid life was the credits list. No longer than a month after

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    Mermaid Myths

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    people have witnessed many peculiar creatures in the ocean. One of those is mermaids. Mermaids have lived through the centuries and in most cases, it appeared in the folklore and culture of every civilization during the last few thousands of years. Mermaids are unique creatures because of their fascinating history, origin, and beguiling nature. In Old English, “mere” means the ‘sea’ and “maid” means ‘woman.’ Mermaids are thought to as the descendants of ancient deities such as Oannes - the Babylonian

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    Mermaids Some people say mermaids are these beautiful and elegant creatures, however, they are not so pleasant to see in real person. Even though they are not real, some people swear they have seen one. Their diet is not as extravagant as people may think. There are many different countries around the world that believe in mermaids. Mermaids are mythical creatures. Mermaids are magical creatures. People believe that mermaids are the reason for unexplained happenings in the sea, such as shipwrecks

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    Mermaid

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    going to tell a story about “Little Mermaid with Soul”. Long long time ago... In the city of Palermo, on the island of Sicily, there lived a poor fisherman. He was so poor, he didn’t even own a boat. Every day he carried his net down to the sea, tossed it into the water and pulled it up at the end of the day. One day when he pulled in the net he saw something sparkling. At first he thought it was a doll. But he looked closer, he saw that it was a little mermaid, only two or three feet long. At

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    The Myths Of Mermaids

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    Water calming to listen to, cooling to go in on a hot summers day, but what lies beneath the surface? The world has many myths from mermaids to sea monsters, but could any of these be true? In 1493 Christopher Columbus claimed he had seen a mermaid that was really a manatee or someone mistaking a giant octopus when really . Maybe I could prove that all of this is true with a story I heard a few years ago from a fisherman who learned about this while he lived in Norway. The story goes, in a small

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    Speech About Mermaids

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    I love the animals and get attached easily. When one dies and I can’t save it, I lose part of my family. When I was young, I wished I was a mermaid. I could swim around with the animals all day and heal them because I understood. “Do you want to ride my mermaid to prom,” I asked my mother at age 5. Even though it doesn’t make any sense. First of all mermaids are in the water and secondly why to prom? The animals can’t talk, we have to guess and it makes it challenging. They can’t say what hurts

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    Essay About Mermaids

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    legends might be truer than we believe. Mermaids are one of the legends that caught world’s attention for ages. A mermaid is said as a creature that is half human and half fish; they have lower body of a fish and the upper body of a normal human. According to the legend, mermaids are considered beautiful creatures and have attractive looks, blind by the good looks they overcome the scales and fish tail which someone would find repulsive. The word ‘mermaid’ brings the meaning of ‘mer’; the sea as

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    Mermaid Stereotypes

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    Many people believe mermaids and other sea creatures are mythological, because of folklore stereotypes, rare sightings, and contrived evidence. From 586 A.D. to the twentieth century, people believe that these magical creatures thrive in the deepest parts of the ocean. There are many supposed sightings of mermaids, some believe these creatures can bring fortune or death; through numerous sightings these stories are very similar. Some say they saw women with beauty like no other, her hair the color

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    Mermaid Myths

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    known as mermaids, have been featured in everything from the folklore of the past to the fiction of the present, but what do we really know about them? Legends of these half-human, half-fish creatures exist all over the globe, and even if they are merely legend, they’re a pretty fascinating manifestation of what the human imagination can produce. Here are six things you might not know about these mythical creatures. Number One: The first mermaid was a goddess of fertility. The original mermaid came

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    Mermaids –those half-human, half-fish sirens of the ocean — are fabulous ocean animals recorded on oceanic societies since time immemorial. The name comes from 'mer' meaning sea, and the male version is called Merman. But can such a creature really exist? Between a myth and a reality, the Mermaids’ topic has raised a lot of conflicts and questions. People wondered how such a creature could be real. A lot of Researches were made, a lot of fossils were observed, in order to find answers. From Greek

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