If you are with me for a long time, maybe you're aware the Mermaid is my favorite among all mythical creatures around the world. Although there are people who said that mermaids are real based on what they see and experience, but as long as there's no accurate or more convincing evidence, it was still part of the myth.

Yesterday, I watched KMJS a television show broadcast in the Philippines, and one of it's topics is about a group of friends who captured a tail of a mermaid, and in other photo it looks like a head of the mermaid looking at them in a distance. At last, experts said that maybe it is just a tail of a fish, or fake mermaid tail by those swimmers who are using mermaid costume. About the head, some said that it's just a garbage or a photo glitch.

Sorry for my words but KMJS always disappoint me in this kind of topic, they always end the story hanging, no concrete conclusion.

Speaking of Mermaid, I would like to share what other informations I know about them, I know most of us don't believe about this creature, but for me Mermaid's mystery make it real.

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Mermaid Vs. Siren

Mermaid and Siren are both mythical creature that lives in the sea, they are known for being half-human and half-fish. But then, there is a big difference for these two creatures especially in their physical appearance. Mermaids, they have beautiful face, body structure and colorful tails. They are not harmful and friendly to sea creatures. Sirens, they are ugly having sharp teeth and fish like skins. They live in a deep part of ocean, and the one who likes to kill sailors. By the way the description of sirens vary in Mythology, but what I have shared is the most well-known.

For an easy description, just imagine Mermaid on what fairy tales have like Ariel in the Little Mermaid, while Sirens is the movie Peter Pan.

It was an Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, who stated that he saw a mermaids, but he added that they are not beautiful just like how people and painters describe them. I am thinking that what Christopher Columbus saw are Sirens, while some said that he only saw a sea cow; but how can an expert sailor misinterpret mermaid to a sea cow?

Main Powers of Mermaids (According to Folklore)

Immortality

In some beliefs, mermaids are known for having the ability to transform into a human, but then they cannot have their happy ending in land, as people die while they live eternal life. They are known as the guardian of the sea, and as long as there's sea/ocean they live.

Disaster

I once shared a story which my grandma tell to us, about a man who saw a golden hair of a Mermaid in their province. The man thought that it will bring good fortune to his family, so he get it and bring home. But every night he started to have a nightmare about a mermaid and big waves. He started to get sick and feel afraid that his dream will come to reality, what he did is to bring back where he get the hair and after that he felt relieved.

As I've said mermaid are the guardians of the sea, and they have the ability to control water to punish people from wrong doing. Seems magical but that's the ability that they have.

Hypnosis

One of the most common description to mermaids is that they have a good voice, not in a way of having lyrics but there vocals, and according to myth that mermaids use their voice to hypnotize sailors. Common reasons why Mermaids do this, is because they want to protect their territory and they want you to be part of their territory.

To end this, I want to remind everyone that wether the mermaids are real or not, we must respect and protect our water resources. It is part of our nature and it's us who consume the most of it's benefits; that we must be the guardian.

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May 2, 2022

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