Beach Combing @DrBeachcombing
Three children, a wife, 8 tortoises and no time. Supernatural folklore. Podcast: Boggart and Banshee. Book: Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends strangehistory.net/podcast/ Italy for now Joined October 2011-
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Ritual Boundaries Magic and Differentiation in Late Antique Christianity ift.tt/uA0x9Ti
Which is the pekingese, which is the mangy alsatian and was there even a King Charles spaniel?
One of the most bizarre academic articles ever written. Karle Banse in 1990 made the argument (tongue in cheek?) that mermaids had existed until they were wiped out by a jellyfish epidemic. Sources include marine biology tomes and mermaid fiction, not least The Little Mermaid!
Washed up in Cornwall in 1786. Can any marine biologists tell me what in God's name this is?!
A nice supernatural tale from 1853: a vanishing boat on the Tay (Scotland). The man claimed not to be drunk and ghosts were seen by others on the same days. Folklore flap.
Settling an argument like men. In 19C Herefordshire two rivals decided on this unusual form of duel: standing on their heads in a bucket of water. Tom lost and then went and put his head in a wasp nest. 'the above is fact'.
If i could have seen one bit of Elizabethan theatre 'live' it would have been this: Queen Liz is leaving the performance and a petting zoo of British folklore beings begin to keen, 'wringing their hands, tearing their hair' at her departure.
Friday. [Detail from 'A crocodile, a gigantic fish and an animal that eats flying fish'. Gouache painting with Persian lettering, artist unknown. Date: 1750. Wellcome Collection, reference: 582556i]
The best explanation I've come across for the mermaid:
More Gilbert James mermaids (1899). Mermaid meets mermaid.
More mermaid prostitutes (1899) or is this just a reference to the fact that she drank a lot? @hauntedohiobook @WhoresofYore
"Amorous slut of a mermaid": early Victorians didn't pull folklore punches. The legend of the mermaid's stone, common in the Highlands.
Mermaids = female swimmers in the Victorian period, but the word retained its supernatural erotic charge as in this press picture. Note title: 'English mermaids: A water frolic in a quiet nook.' The editor asserts the artist not a 'peeping tom'
Calypso's Isle by Draper borrowing mermaid tropes. Apparently the isle was Sark! We know nothing of his model.
On Tynemouth pier no less in 1897. They made a screeching noise, waving tresses... They were not, according to bystanders, seals. What on earth were they?
'The Age of mircles is passed... Photography has made them impossible.' Forteans, anomalists and paranormalists will appreciate the naivety of this. Reminds me of some claims made for cell phones in the 2000s (not least by me).
Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung
42K Followers 6K Following Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | professional indexer | Lay Canon @stedscath | Tutor @OxfordConted
Centre for Folklore, .. @CentreMyth
24K Followers 2K Following Arts, Film, Talks, Crafts, Library, Archive, Research, Education, Workshops, Education, Storytelling, Conferences, Local Folk History. Open Wed-Sat.
Owen Davies @odavies9
14K Followers 3K Following Historian of witchcraft, magic, ghosts, religion, folklore & medicine. Vice President of Folklore Society 2023-2026. Also @odavies9.bsky.social
Undine @HorribleSanity
19K Followers 7K Following Poe/history blogger. Tweeter of damn fool nonsense. Enlightened on the subject of Goatology. Crazy Cat Lady. Grouch. Abandon hope, all ye who follow here.
Theo Paijmans @memizon
8K Followers 932 Following They were strange days—curious dream-like days—and they followed each other silently, like shadows over grain fields. Edith Allonby, The Fulfilment, 1905.
SelineSigil @SelineSigil9
29K Followers 16K Following Arts, spiritual, folklore...the weird, the wonderful, the web of life
Coffin Boffin @DrSamGeorge1
32K Followers 2K Following Associate Professor of Research @UniofHerts; Convener @OGOMProject; Botanist & Gothicist: Vampires, Werewolves, Angels, Yōkai. Gothic Fairies, Wolf Children
Chris Woodyard @hauntedohiobook
7K Followers 838 Following Author A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death & The Victorian Book of the Dead. Ghosts, death, mourning, costume, Forteana. Podcast: Boggart and Banshee
Folk Horror Revival �.. @folk_horror
26K Followers 2K Following "Speak now, come now, rise now from the forest, from the furrows, from the field and live" #FolkloreAgainstFascism Tweets by @striebgriebling, views my own
Nearlyknowledgeable �.. @g0blinegg
19K Followers 21K Following Part-time Goblin 🐸 Shropshire folklorist, writer, and lover of Ghostlore. 👻✨️🌿 - Writer and Brand Ambassador for Haunted Magazine 👻 'The Best Of Men'
𝕮𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖔�.. @LoreCurious
31K Followers 33K Following Dearest Darkest Readers, these tweets are #Dark #Comedy #Steampunk #Fantasy #Horror #SciFi #Poetry #Satire #FolkHorror #Fiction etc.
The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod
13K Followers 805 Following The Folklore Podcast, created by folklorist and author Mark Norman. Nearly 2 million downloads worldwide. Plus book news and updates.
Dr Jane MainleyPiddoc.. @DrJMainPidd
20K Followers 20K Following Occasional academic/poet Books: Casting The Runes: The Letters of M R James with Unbounders poetry: Chiaroscuro with Alien Bhudda
Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo
6K Followers 950 Following Writer, editor, comms manager • Founder and editor @helleborezine (World Fantasy Awards finalist 2022) • History, art, myth, mystery • She/her.
John Reppion @johnreppion
7K Followers 2K Following ~ Mr @leahmoore ~ Sanjulián's Queens of the Lost World for @OpusPublishing ~ Sir Gawain & the Green Knight w/ @M_D_Penman ~ + @helleborezine @DailyGrail etc ~
Folklore Film Fans �.. @FolkloreFilmFes
31K Followers 2K Following Celebrating diverse magical world of Folklore in Film Mastodon @[email protected] #FolkloreFilmFans https://t.co/a1FvxA1zNR
WunderKammer @DirkPuehl
12K Followers 2K Following Pale student of unhallowed arts. Likes blue birds - #ofdarkandmacabre host and #WyrdWednesday Mother. Now on Instagram ⬇️
Morgan Daimler @MorganDaimler
5K Followers 1K Following Independent folklorist & amateur translator of Old/middle Irish. Author focused on (nonfiction) fairies & Irish myth, (fiction) urban fantasy & high fantasy.
Boggart Stones @BoggartStones
1K Followers 1K Following A Lincolnshire folklore collecting project. We are re-homing boggarts around the county, If you find one, post us a photo! #Boggartstones #Lincolnshirefolklore
Bethan Briggs-Miller @BethanJones9
3K Followers 2K Following Folklorist, Artist, Voice Actor, Paranormal Historian, Welsh, Podcast host on Eerie Essex and Spectre of the Sea, Mum, EDS zebra ,RandyGoat 🛸🐉👻👽🧚♂️🧜🏽♀️
All Clients Are Basta.. @slinging_hole
499 Followers 1K Following Anon FSSW and kink provider × Takatāpui Lesbian × Tainui × Addict × She/her × If you follow and I can't tell you're a SW, I will block ×
Kaela Noel @_kaelanoel_
1K Followers 778 Following Children’s writer. Homeschooling mother. My middle grade debut COO is out now from Greenwillow/HarperCollins 🕊🌲🐝 Represented by @grimmlit!
Natalie Marlow @NatalieMarlow2
1K Followers 2K Following Poacher turned gamekeeper. Bookseller, book writer, book reader. NEEDLESS ALLEY and THE RED HOLLOW out now. Published by @BaskervilleJMP.
Tristan Guest @tristan_guest
27 Followers 343 Following Building. Usually with TypeScript, Node.js, and React. Sometimes with lumber and nails.
Eddy O @feedbackghost
251 Followers 671 Following He/Him. Your weird old friend. Pansexual. Satanist (TST). Forever DM. Perpetually spooky.
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311 Followers 2K Following Post doctoral tutor at University of Edinburgh.
EssAeEm @EssAeEm
257 Followers 372 Following Connoisseur of the weird and wondrous, especially folklore, animation, theme parks, fantasy and puppets. I also run Muppet GIF of the Day (@GIFs_of_Puppets).
crewedave @crewedave1
23 Followers 71 Following If you're a skank e-thot with no posts on your profile don't bother following me as I'll kick you back to the street where you belong.
R.Silverwood @silverwood_r
2K Followers 3K Following Curator of rare fictional folk. Currently #writing speculative / interactive / new weird fiction.
Tom Barnes @Tom_Barnes33
878 Followers 5K Following Archaeology, history, people, kindness. Masto: @[email protected], Bluesky: @timby2.bsky.social
Hannah @agarthanguide
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Shanksi @GamerShanksi
223 Followers 3K Following Integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level.
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Linda Webb @LindaWebb498079
131 Followers 502 Following Independent paranormal researcher and blogger; https://t.co/1KtqD0r0Sb (brand new site, still a work in progress!).
rιcн вaмғord🔭.. @myrialejean
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Dr Hayley Flynn @hayleyhflynn
304 Followers 432 Following PhD in Victorian literature - Dream and Victorian Periodicals - Co-host of @AllYearRoundPod
Claire @claire_sf
30 Followers 75 Following writer, podcaster, musician. supernatural. screenwrit(ing). writing on cinema, the gothic, the paranormal, etc.
Steph Kent @covertress
16K Followers 16K Following ufos books food memes wildlife and woo https://t.co/WMCikXPkOp | #ufoX #wooX
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Lichfield Lore @LichfieldLore
5K Followers 4K Following Lover of curiosities, legends & languages. Searching for stories in Staffordshire & beyond. Will protect you from the Kidsgrove Boggart. Part of @lichdiscovered
Mystery Diver @Mystery_Diver
29 Followers 60 Following
Lisa @FrugalBob
15 Followers 144 Following Drink beer. Brew beer. Better still, grow your own hops. Bob was my Dad and he was frugal. I'm Lisa and I'm not entirely sure which of us is writing this.
Amo orson @UthmanTaju60790
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Andrés 📰📌 @iusnaufragii
784 Followers 372 Following Universo miñoca da Coruña, libros, prensa antiga, deseño, xogos de mesa, inventos, impresión... Moita chilindrada.
Calum Waddell @cal_on_X
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Tom @AnnaBloom476596
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John @chececil
27 Followers 57 Following
OnKalapuyaLand @KalapuyaOn
210 Followers 435 Following Academic librarian, fortean, scatterbrain. @[email protected] #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD
SingCucuNu @SingCucuNu
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Lana 🇺🇸🇺🇦.. @lilygirl75
387 Followers 575 Following #StandWithUkraine ExGOP, politically homeless introvert. I ❤️history, nature, photography, cats, cold brew coffee & Outlander 🏴 #NeverTrump
Roman Kermit @Roman_Kermit
72 Followers 169 Following The Roman army was a formidable force, Kermit was a centurion like Longinus and witnessed the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD. His work is unfinished
Candace Gutierrez @CandaceGut93729
73 Followers 3K Following
Mehul @mehuls_twt
97 Followers 450 Following Learning with curiosity! MERN | Golang | Cloud | DevOps | Open source
Scarlette-Electra LeB.. @gothicwells
187 Followers 509 Following PhD Student researching the Folklore of Wells and Springs💧✨🔮 Interested in Victorian and Gothic Literature / Fairies / Medicine / Magic / Fairy-tales
Andrea Giovannoni @AndreaG48565723
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Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung
42K Followers 6K Following Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | professional indexer | Lay Canon @stedscath | Tutor @OxfordConted
Centre for Folklore, .. @CentreMyth
24K Followers 2K Following Arts, Film, Talks, Crafts, Library, Archive, Research, Education, Workshops, Education, Storytelling, Conferences, Local Folk History. Open Wed-Sat.
Owen Davies @odavies9
14K Followers 3K Following Historian of witchcraft, magic, ghosts, religion, folklore & medicine. Vice President of Folklore Society 2023-2026. Also @odavies9.bsky.social
Undine @HorribleSanity
19K Followers 7K Following Poe/history blogger. Tweeter of damn fool nonsense. Enlightened on the subject of Goatology. Crazy Cat Lady. Grouch. Abandon hope, all ye who follow here.
Theo Paijmans @memizon
8K Followers 932 Following They were strange days—curious dream-like days—and they followed each other silently, like shadows over grain fields. Edith Allonby, The Fulfilment, 1905.
SelineSigil @SelineSigil9
29K Followers 16K Following Arts, spiritual, folklore...the weird, the wonderful, the web of life
Coffin Boffin @DrSamGeorge1
32K Followers 2K Following Associate Professor of Research @UniofHerts; Convener @OGOMProject; Botanist & Gothicist: Vampires, Werewolves, Angels, Yōkai. Gothic Fairies, Wolf Children
Chris Woodyard @hauntedohiobook
7K Followers 838 Following Author A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death & The Victorian Book of the Dead. Ghosts, death, mourning, costume, Forteana. Podcast: Boggart and Banshee
Folk Horror Revival �.. @folk_horror
26K Followers 2K Following "Speak now, come now, rise now from the forest, from the furrows, from the field and live" #FolkloreAgainstFascism Tweets by @striebgriebling, views my own
The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod
13K Followers 805 Following The Folklore Podcast, created by folklorist and author Mark Norman. Nearly 2 million downloads worldwide. Plus book news and updates.
Dr Jane MainleyPiddoc.. @DrJMainPidd
20K Followers 20K Following Occasional academic/poet Books: Casting The Runes: The Letters of M R James with Unbounders poetry: Chiaroscuro with Alien Bhudda
Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo
6K Followers 950 Following Writer, editor, comms manager • Founder and editor @helleborezine (World Fantasy Awards finalist 2022) • History, art, myth, mystery • She/her.
John Reppion @johnreppion
7K Followers 2K Following ~ Mr @leahmoore ~ Sanjulián's Queens of the Lost World for @OpusPublishing ~ Sir Gawain & the Green Knight w/ @M_D_Penman ~ + @helleborezine @DailyGrail etc ~
Folklore Film Fans �.. @FolkloreFilmFes
31K Followers 2K Following Celebrating diverse magical world of Folklore in Film Mastodon @[email protected] #FolkloreFilmFans https://t.co/a1FvxA1zNR
WunderKammer @DirkPuehl
12K Followers 2K Following Pale student of unhallowed arts. Likes blue birds - #ofdarkandmacabre host and #WyrdWednesday Mother. Now on Instagram ⬇️
Morgan Daimler @MorganDaimler
5K Followers 1K Following Independent folklorist & amateur translator of Old/middle Irish. Author focused on (nonfiction) fairies & Irish myth, (fiction) urban fantasy & high fantasy.
Boggart Stones @BoggartStones
1K Followers 1K Following A Lincolnshire folklore collecting project. We are re-homing boggarts around the county, If you find one, post us a photo! #Boggartstones #Lincolnshirefolklore
Bethan Briggs-Miller @BethanJones9
3K Followers 2K Following Folklorist, Artist, Voice Actor, Paranormal Historian, Welsh, Podcast host on Eerie Essex and Spectre of the Sea, Mum, EDS zebra ,RandyGoat 🛸🐉👻👽🧚♂️🧜🏽♀️
Ceri Houlbrook @CeriHoulbrook
4K Followers 2K Following Author of 'Winter's Wishfall'. Folklorist. Mum. Northerner. Lecturer in Folklore & History @UniofHerts. Programme Leader of Folklore Studies MA. Eater of cake.
Anna Mazzola (is away.. @Anna_Mazz
26K Followers 5K Following Writer. Very small. The Clockwork Girl, The House of Whispers, The Book of Secrets etc. History, mystery, crime. See @anna_mazz_law for lawyer me.
Lisa @FrugalBob
15 Followers 144 Following Drink beer. Brew beer. Better still, grow your own hops. Bob was my Dad and he was frugal. I'm Lisa and I'm not entirely sure which of us is writing this.
Iris Murdoch @IrisMurdoch
8K Followers 6K Following Official tweets from the Iris Murdoch Archive Project collaboration between @kingstonuni & @chiuni.
Wʜᴀᴛ Mᴀɢɪᴄ.. @DouglasWMiT
6K Followers 1K Following Twitter feed fed by Douglas Batchelor, host of the Podcast. Sharing strange and interesting things on the timeline. Saving opinions for the Podcast, thanks.
Dr Richard Sugg @DrSugg
4K Followers 3K Following Author of 16 books, inc Kali the Wonder Dog & Talking Dirty: A History of Disgust. #FBPE #GTTO TikTok rsugg07 NEW! Take a look at https://t.co/K9NbXUKdMZ
The Society for Psych.. @SPR1882
12K Followers 341 Following Founded in 1882, the SPR aims to advance the understanding of events and abilities commonly described as psychic or paranormal. Tweets are not endorsements.
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119K Followers 3K Following Defending civil liberties and protecting privacy. Fearless campaigning. Real change. Delivered to you. Subscribe | https://t.co/AoL5UHOoNR
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Dr Ian Brodie @AVulgarArt
964 Followers 1K Following Folklorist, author (A Vulgar Art, Old Trout Funnies), President of both @fsac_acef and @ISCLR, and, to be clear, NOT Stephen Harper’s former Svengali. He/him
Maidenhead United @MUFCYorkRoad
17K Followers 338 Following United as One against suicide, in partnership with @theCALMzone. In the Community, Men, Women, Futsal, Academy, Juniors and Wellbeing.
Dr Delyth Badder @delythbadder
3K Followers 1K Following Welsh folklorist • Author • Honorary Research Fellow @amgueddfacymru • The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts @calonbooks • Represented @wolfiegoethe • Rheibio'n Gymraeg
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現代民俗学 関�.. @kg_vernacular
6K Followers 1K Following 島村恭則（関西学院大学社会学部長）。現代民俗学の教育研究を行っています。業績一覧はhttps://t.co/Tb0A0CevyJへ。民俗学の大学院進学相談はhttps://t.co/NEK7oFbHJ1へ。講演依頼はDMで。
Filip Graliński @FilipGralinski
104 Followers 462 Following 6502 and Haskell hacker, machine learner, hypopolyglot (many languages, all poor), opposite Pole, skeptical forteanist
Dr. Francesca Bihet @FrancescaBihet
2K Followers 689 Following Early Career Researcher, Fairies, Folklore, History, 19th century and the Gothic.
Tales of Britain and .. @BritIrelandTale
5K Followers 1K Following A podcast telling myths, legends and folklore of Britain and Ireland in no particular order, made by Graeme. Find it on all good (and evil) podcast aggregators
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349 Followers 162 Following PhD Candidate in History at the University of Exeter studying premodern magic - specifically fairy summoning spells. (He/him) 🏳️🌈
Legends & Rumors @BrianChapman123
97 Followers 1 Following Interested in folklore, rumors, and contemporary legends
thePelican @magoniareview
822 Followers 97 Following Interested in weird phenomena and Forteana, occasional rants, Liverpolitana.
Giuseppe Stilo @WillAmateurish
214 Followers 127 Following Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto. Scetticismo, storia delle anomalie, epistemologia, pseudoscienze.
The Folklore Society @FolkloreSociety
23K Followers 584 Following Since 1878 we've promoted the study of all forms of folklore, published research and provided information on folklore
A Feast of Folklore @FolkloreFoody
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3K Followers 4K Following Wayfaring Stranger, betwixt Eboracum and Dunelm. Ecotone Explorer. Red Kite Rambler. Bladderwrack Popper. Producer. Time-slipper. MD ANT. “I am the Sun and Air’
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SMiles Lewis @SMilesLewis
344 Followers 433 Following SMiles Lewis has a lifelong interest in all things anomalous.
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3K Followers 2K Following "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."- 1 John 4:8 (KJV) #Jesus #Scripture #Faith #Christian #Activism
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Sea Witch 🌊🌿✨ @fenifur
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2K Followers 2K Following Writer of esoteric fiction and investigator of British and European folklore, with some psychedelic and cosmic twists. A great devotee of Lord Byron. #LordByron
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Dr Clodagh Tait @tait_clodagh
4K Followers 4K Following Historian at MIC, UL of women, men, children, emotion, death, ghosts, cursing, violence...surprisingly cheerful most of the time. Joint editor IHS.
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574 Followers 929 Following Photographic artist and writer from Fife, Scotland, who talks to mythical creatures.
Neil Philip @neilphilipmyth
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Mark Goulston @MarkGoulston
461K Followers 268K Following author, "Just Listen," in 22 languages and the top book on listening in the world, former UCLA professor of psychiatry and FBI hostage negotiation trainer
singingbonespodcast @singingbonespc
693 Followers 493 Following A podcast that tells the origins of our favourite fairy tales. Learn where the glass slippers and magic mirrors came from. Spun by @claretestoni
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@DrBeachcombing Bambino sound small so Pekingese fits
Trust the Science!
One of the most bizarre academic articles ever written. Karle Banse in 1990 made the argument (tongue in cheek?) that mermaids had existed until they were wiped out by a jellyfish epidemic. Sources include marine biology tomes and mermaid fiction, not least The Little Mermaid!
@DrBeachcombing I see. So sad to see denialism of the direct & tragic role humans have had by being such "you know im just marrying for X, youre the one i really love" asses, turning so many mermaids to seafoam
@DrBeachcombing Hah! I heard a great one from an academic on C-Span's "Book TV" a decade & a half ago about the "Roswell UFO" crash in 1947. She claimed the supposed "aliens" were no such thing, They were Soviet chimp/human hybrids shot over the pole to take pic's of the White Sands testing base
Made quite the Splash apparently
One of the most bizarre academic articles ever written. Karle Banse in 1990 made the argument (tongue in cheek?) that mermaids had existed until they were wiped out by a jellyfish epidemic. Sources include marine biology tomes and mermaid fiction, not least The Little Mermaid!
@CeriHoulbrook @DrBeachcombing She’s not quite Jenny Greenteeth!
@NatalieMarlow2 What a brilliant picture! Not the same as @DrBeachcombing 's research but fascinating
@DrBeachcombing Love that the accent has also been captured.
@DrBeachcombing Mermaids from 1941 film Ikan Doejoeng.
Drinking vessel in the form of a #cat with painted stripes, made of tin-glazed earthenware, London, 1676. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
@hauntedohiobook @DrBeachcombing Drugs? You should have seen some of the stuff on US TV in that era. Chris, do you remember a kids show titled "H.R. Puffinstuff"? Or my fave, the great rural sitcom, "Green Acre's". The last was a masterpiece of surrealism, set in the "Kangaroo State", wherever that was?
A meeting of the greats. The sea serpent and the mermaid. Note that incredibly there is one 1890s account of a man who saw a mermaid and the sea serpent together.
Those interested in studying ufo’s and the paranormal: there are two great resources with tons of free scanned books, magazines and whatnot - and all legal, found here: @AFU_Sweden and at iapsop.com
@DrBeachcombing I had a search online but couldn't find any record of this mermaid tradition. What makes it exceptional, in my view, is that it is "maidens" seeking to know their futures from the mermaid queen, rather than young men. Are there other tales of womens interactions with mermaids?
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@DrBeachcombing My guess: a very lost harp seal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harp_seal
@DrBeachcombing Apropos of mermaids have you seen this from 'Family Guy'? -Lois has fallen from a ship and is rescued by a merman youtu.be/ZIBLgLNLX2g?si… via @YouTube
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