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Excellent research! I love when myths are traced to more than one origin, even though there’s no scientific reason the cultures/people would have known each other.
The ocean is full of mysteries. I don’t know what’s out there for sure, but there do seem to be a lot of crazy accounts!
Great post.
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Thank you 🙂 The ocean does hold a lot of mystery.
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Vicious and to be feared back home in the Philippines. There’s nothing like Ariel in our folklore when it comes to mermaids. Strangely, in Filipino, they’re called “sirena” so more siren but it’s a mermaid.
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I read in my research that because mermaids are called “sirena” or “serena” or something sounding more like “siren” the folklore of the two were combined. I’m looking forward to doing another post about mermaid-lore. Thanks for commenting, Anne 🙂
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I need to do some research for my fantasy, too… soon. 🙂 You’re such an inspiration.
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