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| Keywords: Sea fables explained (15401445888).jpg THE MERMAID Tj <br> for the creature continued to make a musical noise during <br> the tw o minutes he gazed at it and on perceiving him <br> disappeared in an instant <br> The universality of the belief in an animal of combined <br> human and fish-like form is very remarkable That it <br> exists amongst the Japanese we have evidence in their <br> curious and ingeniously-constructed models which are <br> occasionally brought to this countr I have one of <br> these which is so exactly the counterpart of that which <br> my friend \Ir Frank Buckland described originally in <br> Land and Water and which forms the subject of a <br> chapter in his ' Curiosities of Natural Histor\- ' that the <br> portrait of the one Fig 13 will equally well represent <br> »» <br> FIG 13 � A JAPANESE ARTIFICIAL MERMAID <br> the other The lower half of the body is made of the skin <br> and scales of a fish of the carp family and fastened on <br> to this so neatly that it is hardly possible to detect where <br> the joint is made is a wooden body the ribs of which are so <br> prominent that the poor mermaid has a miserable and half- <br> star\ ed appearance The upper part of the body is in the <br> attitude of a Sphinx leaning upon its elbows and fore-arms <br> The arms are thin and scraggy and the fingers attenuated <br> and skeleton-like The nails are formed of small pieces of <br> Third Series vol ii p 134 2nd ed 10985610 41337 10456 Page 27 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/10985610 1883 10 5962/bhl title 10456 International Fisheries Exhibition; Lee Henry Biodiversity Heritage Library Sea fables explained Mermaids Monsters Are Real Folklore Ocean Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 10985610 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/10985610 bhlMonstersRreal Halloween mermaid feejee mermaid smithsonian libraries bhlmonstersrreal halloween Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-10-21 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/15401445888 2015-08-25 17 51 50 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 Sea fables explained Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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