The word "mermaid" supposedly comes from the word "channel" (river), where these truly lovely creatures live. The historian Solovyov, however, claims that these creatures got their name for their predominantly blond hair color. Some people call mermaids coasters because they only see them on the shore. In the cultures of different peoples, mermaids can be called naiads, jeeps, undines, nymphs, and so on.
False representation
Before you figure out if mermaids exist, you need to decide who they are! All of you, most likely, have already drawn an image of a half-maiden-half-fish.
Many of you will be surprised, but this is a misconception about mermaids! The real Russian image is a slender beautiful girl with pale skin. There is no question of any fish tail! Real mermaids are freshwater creatures that have never had a fish tail. All this confusion has gone because of other creatures, the namewho are sea maidens. It is they who, instead of ordinary human legs, have a fish tail, and they live in s alt waters (for example, in the seas), and not in fresh ones. The image of primordially Russian mermaids merged with the image of sea maidens. Blame the Western influence of late literature and cinema.
Love is not a carrot
Are there mermaids capable of truly falling in love? Definitely not! If one of them falls in love with a guy, then it will come out sideways to him. Mermaids lure their object of love into the water, where they either drown, or strangle with their long hair, or begin to tickle until they tickle until death.
How to become mermaids
Mermaids are the most ordinary drowned girls. But there are a number of nuances that you should pay attention to.
So, mermaids become:
- suicidal girls who voluntarily decided to go to the bottom;
- girls who swam and drowned without a pectoral cross;
- girls already born dead;
- girls who died unbaptized;
- girls and girls who were lured by other mermaids into their round dance.
Of course, you can not believe in the existence of mermaids, but a drowned woman becomes one at the moment when a ray of the moon touches her face underwater. And here already, as they say, if you want - believe it, if you want - no.
Their manners
Mermaids live up to seven years, while from year to year their body becomes more transparent and white. If you dare to touch such a creature, you will feel how your handenters a cloud of very cold vapor, and then is taken away. We think that after this, the question of whether mermaids exist will not cause you the slightest doubt!
Like vampires, mermaids are quiet during the day, hiding under water, and hunt at night. They come ashore and start singing sad songs.
They comb their long hair and weave wreaths. If suddenly fog begins to cover the shores and coastal meadows, then these creatures arrange games or round dances. Their potential victims, finding themselves in these places, see something white flickering in the fog, hear melodic and sonorous laughter.
Remember how Pushkin said about the mermaid? She sat on the branches of an oak tree near Lukomorye. At the same time, it is not known what the poet thought - whether mermaids exist or not, but he put one of them there for a reason! The fact is that in addition to playing and driving round dances under the moon, these creatures love to swing on tree branches, especially on flexible willow branches. They fly up a tree easily and quickly, like fluffs. And if you notice in the evening that the willow is somehow strangely swaying - get away from this place, because danger is nearby!
Encounter with mermaids
Know that these creatures will never leave the fresh waters, because, like many other impure ones, they are afraid of s alt. Therefore, they can be found mainly near fresh water sources, as well as rye fields and forests. Of course, it would be better not to meet them at all. But if the meetingtook place, be prepared for the fact that these creatures may invite you to play or dance. Or they can just ask to talk to them. In no case do not feel sorry for them, do not approach and do not speak to them! After all, they won’t blink an eye – they will grab you, tickle you, strangle you or dance to death! By the way, they can also guess riddles, just like the Sphinx! In any case, you will never get out alive and well…
Carry a pinch of s alt, a clove of garlic or a branch of wormwood as a "self-defense weapon". Mermaids just can't stand these things! For example, it is enough to threaten them from afar with a dry branch of wormwood, and they immediately dive into the water with plaintive groans.
So, whether mermaids exist (photos are presented in the article) or not, no one knows for sure. And it's better not to know. As in the case of vampires, we cannot unequivocally say that the existence of mermaids takes place, but we cannot refute it either. That is why this question remains open to this day…
