Mermaid Fashion
"I love the girl with all me heart But I only like the upper part I do not like the tail!" ("The Mermaid," by Newfoundland band Great Big Sea) Do mermaids exist? A Russian print from 1866 shows a mermaid and a merman. Credit: Public domain. C.J.S. Thompson, a former curator at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, noted in his book "The Mystery and Lore of Monsters" (Kessinger, 2010), "Traditions concerning creatures half-human and half-fish in form have existed for thousands of years, and the Babylonian deity Era or Oannes, the Fish-god, is represented on seals and in sculpture, as being in this shape over 2,000 years B.C. He is usually depicted as having a bearded head with a crown and a body like a man, but from the waist downwards, he has the shape of a fish covered with scales and a tail." There are other accounts that were told about mermaids, yet some are still doubtful of their existence. Legends of mermaids are ta...