What if I wake up…
And it isn’t a dream?…
And I’m drenched in red…
and my hands stained black?..
.. And what if I can’t bring myself to care?..
Am I a Monster?..
Are
We all
Monsters?
— Meepingblog
Mermaids: The Myths, Legends & Lore
“Early reports tell a strange story of seven mermaids who supposedly were captured in the waters near Ceylon in 1560. A group of Jesuits along with physician Bosquez, then an aide to the Viceroy of Goa, supposedly performed autopsies on the mermaids. . . . Merfolk were just like humans . . . physically . . . , except for their fishtails, of course.”
Monsters Among Us
“Yenaldlooshi—practitioners of a certain type of dark magic whose counterparts may be found in many different Native American tribes. The term means, loosely, something like “it travels fast on four feet” due to the belief these people could change into animal form or manifest as floating or flying orbs of light—usually for no good purpose, but every tribe’s lore is unique. In English they are commonly called skinwalkers.”
—Monsters Among Us, Linda S. Godfrey
Sea Monsters Unmasked, and Sea Fables
“. . .in the Sea of Angola mermaids are frequently caught which resemble the human species. They are taken in nets, and killed . . . and are heard to shriek and cry like women.”
—Sea Monsters Unmasked, and Sea Fables, Henry Lee
Restless
Awake on command,
Nothing but my plight to keep me going.
Heartless escapades,
Leaving me restless and drained.
— meepingblog
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Robert Steele
“And some men say, that they are fishes of the sea in likeness of women. Some men feign that there are three Sirens some-deal maidens, and some-deal fowls with claws and wings, and one of them singeth with voice, and another with a pipe, and the third with an harp, and they please so shipmen, with likeness of song, that they draw them to peril and to shipbreach, but the sooth is, that they were strong hores, that drew men that passed by them to poverty and to mischief. And Physiologus saith it is a beast of the sea, wonderly shapen as a maid from the navel upward and a fish from the navel downward, and this wonderful beast is glad and merry in tempest, and sad and heavy in fair weather. With sweetness of song this beast maketh shipmen to sleep, and when she seeth that they are asleep, she goeth into the ship, and ravisheth which she may take with her, and bringeth him into a dry place, and maketh him first lie by her, and if he will not or may not, then she slayeth him and eateth his flesh.”
—Excerpted from Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
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