European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                \ or Vito tiny and color i  put a main Ham my Louft the legendary Long Golden hair of mermaids was used to sell hair tonic on this 19th Century Ayer a advert Long card. The lore of the Mermaid fatal seductress benevolent protect Ress c Philbr Halphin Mil my i modest chinese women used doctors ladies such As this Ivory Mermaid log urine to Point out their pains to physicians. Byjoe Waschenbach National geographic a t sea for two months in Arctic Waters explorer Henry Hudson entered in his log june 13,1608"this morning one of our Compana looking Over Boord saw a Mermaid. From the Navill upward her Back and breasts were like a woman they saw her Tayle. Which like she Tayle of a porpoise and speckled like a Macrell the fantasy of a Sailor Loo Long at sea the description is so up cyclic thai it is almost convincing says Lee Ellen Griffith guest curator of Iho Philadelphia maritime museum s exhibit of Mermaid Arl throughout history there have been reports of Mermaid sightings in a l parts of the world even Inlo the second half of the 20th Century one of the earliest recorded was roman natural jul Pliny the elder s in the first Century a d and As or the mermaids called Nereide it is no fabulous Lale that goeth of them to Tooke How pampers draw them so they arc indeed Onlie their Bodie is rough and skated All Over even in those parts wherein they resemble woman to this old English translation of Pliny s Islona  he recounts several Mermaid sightings including a mass monster tide that struck an Island washing ashore More than 300 creatures among Mem sea elephants aquatic rams and mermaids the Mermaid s earliest recorded ancestor is a half Man. Hall fish sea god Cannes worshipped by the babylonians Ceni Unes before the birth of Christ babylonians believed the sea was the origin of All life Cannes was a civilizing Torce Over Mankind the first female prototype was the semitic Moon goddess at Argalis worshipped by the philistines. Syrians and israelite she is better known today in her greek and roman mythological forms aphrodite and Venus goddess of love and Beauty. From ancient greek mythology emerges to dual nature of the Mermaid that endures today. She is Bolh the fatal seductress the Siren who lures sailors and ships to their doom and the benevolent protect Ress the nerd. Through the Ages folklore has filled the seas with  both male and female the richest sources of Mermaid lore Are countries thai Border the sea especially England. Ireland. Scotland and Wales most mermaids Are pictured As Lovely sea nymphs with Long Golden hair who carry magic talismans. Usually a comb and a Mirror. But some Are sea witches with stringy seaweed hair Green Teeth and claws during the age ote proration Shore was a surge of Mermaid sightings by explorers of the new world both Christopher Columbus and capt John Smith reported seeing mermaids swimming in the Waters of the West indies Smith critiqued the one he observed she had Large eyes rather Loo round a finely shaped nose a Little too Short Well formed ears rather too Long and her Long Green hair imparted to her an original character by no Means unattractive " an extremely exotic creature from the far East was sighted off the moluccas in Indonesia according to the natural history of the indies published in 1717. She was "59 inches Long and proportioned like an eel. Lived on land in a Lub Lull of Waler for four Days and seven hours uttered Little cries. Would eat nowning and then died by 1 r"23. A danish Royal commission had been set up to Settle the my maid phenomenon m Denmark once and Lor Ait but on a lad finding in through the Faeroe islands members encountered a Merman " their double dispelled they reported that the Merman had deep set eyes and a Long Black Beard that looked Asil it had been trimmed in the Early i91h Century a number of Mermaid monday november 30, 1987 sightings were reported throughout the British Isles the times of London in 1809 published an account by scottish schoolmaster William Munro. Who wrote that he saw a Mermaid on a Rock combing her Long Ligh Brown hair her lace was plump her chocks wore Ruddy and Herchc were Blue she remained on the Rock for Inree of your minutes and then dropped Inlo the sea off Ireland s Kil Conly Point Between Bally Bumon and Bally Longford two Broth cars returning from a fishing in in 1962 told newspaper reporters that they had seen a Mermaid Silling on a Rock. As they approached she Sank into the sea and disappeared into nearby caves As recently As 1983, anthropologist Roy Wagner of the University of Virginia told a Richmond newspaper that he had twice Scon a creature something like a human Oft a Papua new Guinea Island in the South Pacific the local people claim Hal these creatures forearms Are rigid to the body and that icy have use Only of their hands their legs Are used and they have feel like flippers the new guineans say Wagner now says that what he saw was not even Hall human. Sophisticated underwater video equipment proved Hal the sightings were Lugo iils he explains Bui they had characterises not normally associated with the torpedo shaped mammals he says most mermaids seen by mariners were probably seals porpoises manatees or a dugongs but Wagner Ini Irja Hal his mistake does not necessarily close the Issue on the elusive Mermaid 1 people Are still fascinated by mermaids because they re almost be   psychotherapist Linda Carler Ake who is doing research on mermaids As part of an analyst training program at me c g Jung Insl Lule in Boson the Mermaid is psychologically  she says the Ocean represents the re film of the unconscious and Iho image of the Mermaid the diving Down to deeper Leveis of consciousness of the self the tuck is not to let the Mermaid pull you under " the stars and stripes Page 17