Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1895 — Mermaids in Folk Lore. [ARTICLE]

Mermaids in Folk Lore.

All the world over there are legends about mermaids. The Chinese tell stories not unlike others about the seawomen of their southern seas. Mankind is taught on the most excellent evidence that a mermaid was ca,ptured at Bangor, on the shores of the Belfast Lough, in the sixth century, while another caught at Edam in 1403 was carried to Haarlem and kept there for many years.