‘Mermaid mummy’ at Enjuin temple, Japan — a mythical creature supposedly caught in a fishing net circa 1741 — consists of paper, cloth, cotton, animal hair, fish bones, scales and other components asahi.com Submitted by marketrent t3_11cbnze on February 26, 2023 at 10:09 AM in history 17 comments 500
vshawk2 t1_ja5ven6 wrote on February 27, 2023 at 1:48 AM These were common sideshow attractions in the 1800s: Banff Mermaid I saw this one in Tombstone, AZ Harvard's Figi Mermaid Basically, you take a desiccated capuchin monkey carcass and sew a dried out carp's tail on it -- and you charge people $$$ to see it. Permalink 11
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