The History Channel in the mid 90's was my introduction to Mermaids, they talked about how drunken Sailors would mistaken Manatees as Beautiful Women with a fish's tail, and even at 6 years old 3 questions would pop in my head; 1. How long were they at Sea? 2. How drunk were they? 3. What in the world did the Women from their home look like?
this guy get's it. it just seems absurd to even suggest that mermaids are just mistaken manatees,given the fact that manatees look nothing like fish or humans and not even someone from that age (less of all a experienced sailor) would have been dumb enough to not know the difference so that explanation is weak at best.
@@JT5555 it seems to me that the talk of mermaids and manatees was exaggerated or flat out made up through the ages. I could see it being something where drunken sailers pointed out that manatees swam like mermaids and through the grapevine of different people the statement changed to "we saw mermaids"
at a certain angle at a certain distance, a manatee could be mistaken for a women, though of course being under the influence probably has to do something with these “sightings”
In a world of fake news its refreshing to hear opinion science on the facts of mermaid management and abatement. If we lose these lessons generations could be lost.
@Kowboy Conscious Community That's gonna go over most people's heads. You must elaborate for the intellectualy declined They don't know about harmful..EMF. Remember they are taught to worship technology and struggle to see past the veil of deception within there own lives. Yet alone small material gadgets.
In Nigerian culture, Mermaids are called 'mami water' it is actually a representation of a Yoruba deity of water but cultures outside the Yoruba cultures see them as sea spirits that cause misfortune. I believe most cultures have mermaids or mermaid like figures in folklore. This video was helpful, thanks!👍
IN ZULU CULTURE WE CALL THEM AMAKHOSI OR UMAMLAMBO..AND WHEN YOU DREAM OF THEM TALKING TO YOU THAT MEANS YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL GIFT OF HEALING. WE RESPECT THEM AS WE RESPECT OUR ANCESTORS.
Everyone that lives on the water probably has stories of some kind of a being or creature, I wonder what stories were lost to time. I wish I knew more about all the people of Africa, there's so many different peoples and such a long period of time, it doesn't really get covered here in the US unless you look for it.
In Jamaica, we call mermaids River Mumma (River Mother), a similar story as Sirens, once men hear their singing you're under their spell and led to their deaths.
In the coastal parts of nigeria we call them mammy water and are known to be powerful creatures who sometimes bestow great favours on individuals but are generally avoided
As a child I was always fascinated by mermaids and sirens. Now as a 23 year old that fascination is still present and only grows more. They are truly something magical, they appear in so many stories fact & fiction yet we still don’t know that many things about them. I may be made fun of but I do think that they do exist. Only 5% of the ocean is explored and considering how we’ve seen how humans treat other creatures it would make sense that the mer people have learned to not associate with humans. As much as I would love to see them I am afraid that some people would attack and kill them and display their bodies as some sort of trophy.
My grandpa was a Costa Rican fisherman in the early 1900s; on a tranquil night on the sea, he and his shipmates saw two mermaids come to the bottom of their boat, touch it, circle it, and observe them before swimming off. He said it was terrifying and they looked pale and scary
@Peter Salucci I thought the half birds were harpys. Sirens are a different species from mermaids altogether? And with mermaids how do we know that they are either good or bad like humans?
@Peter Salucci ok I just wanted to know bc I never really thought mermaids and sirens were different. I thought they were the same and I was wondering what good mermaids have done for humans to say they were good or bad. I never really dived deep into mythology
Sirens/Mermaids are one of my favorite mythical creatures so this video intrigues me. Also there is a Philipine equivalent called Sirena. Which is very similar to other mermaid equivalents. Half fish, luring song, drowning.
The Serina in the tagalogs are way more nicer but, the marinaga/maguindara are hostile and viscous towards adults specially men, they eat humans but, not the young ones that is from bicolandia myths while, the Kataw is a merefolk the royalty of the sea they can surely control water and they could appear almost human with webfeets, hands and can also have tails that's more on a Visayan background.
For those of you who are wondering what would mermaids do well here’s the what you need to know merfolk can either be good or bad think of it this way animals have problems people have problems who’s the say those of the mystics and magics and the unusuals of the worlds mythical beings who is to say they don’t have problems of their own so the question you should ask yourself why would a mermaid be good or bad end it is not the fear of wondering whether they are good or bad it’s wondering who’s good or who’s bad in this category because we actually don’t know who is who in this but the same thing is for them they completely don’t know who’s good and who’s bad when it comes to humans so like anything that would react out of fear tear one would lash out at us as we would do the same to them in other words I’m thinking right now we are at some form of a stalemate you see if one doesn’t know about the other then what is there to do if you don’t want to start some violence the answer for the time being is nothing it’s a standstill a stalemate there are reports that we have killed them some of them and there are reports that they have killed us some of us but still it’s a stalemate because not the whole groups have come forth especially on both sides you and others may not notice but something tells me they’re all getting ready Nuh just the merfolk they are trying to make the first move not just the ones of the sea or the waters but the ones of air land both mountain and wood and underground if you haven’t noticed if you haven’t guessed there waiting but is slowly moving forward there are so many signs nowadays they have noticed they have taken noticed how could they not there’s a saying an old one they’re afraid of us more than we are afraid of them but has anyone figured out what would happen if one side knew how much the other side was afraid I fear that when someone steps forward their intentions are either two things in this situation one death or two life but there is a third one a hidden the third one would be……both and believe me in this situation if it is the third it is not good but I hope it will be I have a bad feeling and for those of you who have felt it too I pray and I hope and I wonder if this step forward that they have made will be to step on us or to help us make a step forward to someone say they are drawing the first blood what I’m saying is this why would you draw such a thing unless you have a really good reason one that matches and out dates anything know this something big is going to happen something really big something astonishing terrifying and full of wonder and misery whether it’s the negative or the positive I hope it’s the positive I am being vague there’s a reason for this after all the legends say that the Merfolk and others like them can become more or less……….human
I research all kinds of monsters for my books, and I can assure everyone that it is a good rule of thumb that supernatural beings are more malevolent than they appear in fairy tales. Mermaids, leprechauns, even the tooth fairy.
I mean when you look at internet creepypastas, even most modern folklore is about violent and malevolent entities. I think people are just quicker to see the aspects of things that make them afraid.
@@justyeeeeeetit These stories don't hesitate to point out the beneficial creatures. Like brownies. But there is a reason why certain magical creatures are portrayed as dangerous or evil. On the topic of water creatures, many of them are dangerous because they represent the dangers of water and the sea. Even more benevolent water creatures who are seen as benefactors of life can get aggressive and dangerous if offended. It's better to actually read up on these stories than make a judgment call.
I find it terrifying that somehow the whole world (some civilisations that never come into contact with others too) talk about the same subject, slightly different stories just like Greeks but they all mention women like creatures with hypnotic singing voices, or extremely manipulative
Sirens, mermaids, Rhine maidens, the Kappa, and the Bunyip (among many others) are personifications of the dangers of the water. They will wreck you on the rocks or pull you under to drown.
that same hypnotic singing voices are present in most, if not all modern commercial music, including religious songs. It's more sexually pronounced in pop music and a lot more subtle and "angelic" in religious music. And yes, angelic voices are also still very present in Godly music. The trick in knowing the difference is in the spirit the music evokes. Pray for discernment.
When I saw the american TV show Siren I truly realized that sirens and mermaids are used as synonyms nowadays. I knew sirens as they were described in that story about Odysseus .
Right? The Sirens originally weren't seducers. They sang to Odysseus about knowledge of the future. Basically, they lured people in with what they wanted the most. I guess today they would sing about loan forgiveness or how to get a PS5. I wonder if Harpies and Sirens are related?
@@theasinclaire52 As far as I know my mythology, they aren't related. Sirens are sea creatures, harpies are not. Sirens are supposed to be more on the prettier side than harpies which corresponds to their areas: sirens as temptation, harpies as punishment. Etc.
Left out, though not well known: The Mud Mermaids of Indiana. A group of mermaids traveled through the Great Lake connectors and ended up making their way into the rivers of Indiana (probably still in the lakes too, but i'm unaware of stories about them.) I am not sure which branch of mermaid they are split from, but were I to guess I would wager the Merrows. These mermaids then settled in these localities and stayed. But as the water can disappear for stretches at a time they began burrowing themselves into the mud to stay wet, and sleeping away the dry spells whenever they arrose. Though if you walk over one, it pulls you down into the mud. Not too useful for hunting, but useful enough to keep people form going back there and disturbing them.
I would assume so. There's unfortunately so little information on them. I am more familiar of stories of alledged sightnings of them in rivers/lakes though.
Probably in the Lost River? I have family that's been in Indiana 100+yrs. Never heard of the Mud people. Kind of far fetched if you asked me. Esp. since most of them fish all the time.
My dad actually saw a mermaid. It was in Oklahoma around the 1950 “s. He was a child. A neighbor adult caught two mermaids in a creek. They were babies one male one female. The adult neighbor caught them in a jar. The mail jumped out. The man sold the mermaid to a person from New York City for a large amount of $. My dad said the mermaid was not cute. He said the face was weird. It’s an old story that is told in my family. My dad is 77 and he still tells that story
So these merpeople aren't spiritual beings? They're physical like us? Because I had been friends with someone from Ghana who told me they were demons. Plus all the stories from Zimbabwe I have read saying that mermaids using mystical powers on their victims. Please reply by the way.
I have heard such stories as a child of a man who drown in one of the rivers in my late grandmother's village. People were saying she fooled him to go in the water and cause him to drawn. They are not as beautiful as we would like them to appear in stories but it maybe true that they are able to alter their appearance to hunt the victim down. Strange but real.
The most interesting evil mermaid flick I’ve ever seen is “She Creature,” which was made in 2001. Stan Winston and his special effects team did a phenomenal job on creating the mermaid and the sea monster that she turns into later in the film.
I remember one time at night i was with a group of friends by the water, and i saw something, like a human figure in the water slowly moving towards us, getting closer and closer every second...never been so scared in my life
It's always good to see videos like this that cover general mythical concepts, and this one is good since I am trying to create my own "mermaids" in my story setting that live underground on venus.
"I knew desperate men at sea, when our suppy ran dry, would quench their thirst by drinking seawater. They swore the sirens, evil creatures singing to them from nearby islands, were in fact their wives and daughters calling them home. They endangered the crew, steering us toward the reefs." "Um... how did you fix them?" "We threw them overboard."
Can you please do more videos on south East Asian mythology and fiction? My friend is Thai and she told me about this poet that wrote a story about a prince who had a baby with a mermaid and there’s giants and stuff. The poet’s name was Suthorn Phu he started working on this epic fantasy from 1822 and took 22 years to finish in 1844!
There is a syrian tale of a shepherd having sex with a mermaid woman and they had a child called Semiramis, SHE BECAME THE MOTHER and WIFE OF NIMROD the ancient Babylonian king who built a gigantic and high tower to reach into heaven. The tower was destroyed and the people were dispersed all over the world giving rise to many cultures, different tribes, peoples and nations. Within this bloodline of the Babylonian king and Queen, you find the CANAANITE GIANTS. the rafahim, sons of Anuk, short for annunaki. You might have heard of them? So the stories from Japan may be oral traditional stories retold in their new countries, of a time when everyone on the earth was living in one place as one people under the Babylonian king nimrod and that prince and mermaid tale comes straight from ancient babylon.
In indonesia there is "nyi roro kidul" the queen of the sea who rules the southern sea kingdom in java first written in the kingdom of mataram and rules every spirit and demon from east to west java and protects the royal family of jogja and has an agent on land called lampor (javanese grim reaper) which in javanese means "loud noise" because when you hear lampor or loud noises at night that means "nyi roro kidul" is coming to mount merapi to visit the "pasar setan" or "satan's store" .
My grandma said mermaids do exist. Fishermen would see them and would cover their ears because if they listen to their singing they become hypnotized and the mermaids would lure them and capture them. She said they would say that their singing was beautiful but deadly. Not sure where this would happen but it was in the waters in Mexico.
@@Dzanarika1 really? Because I’m a gay boy myself and I think it would still work but we can resist it more or at least try to fight back because we aren’t attracted to female mermaids. However, if it was male mermaids it’s a completely different story because I would be in a trance LMAO
Some stories say that the experience of a siren/mermaid luring you in is like you hear singing, all of sudden your right next to the water, then like a blink of any eye your fully in the water…then all you can feel is your last breath leaving your lungs beneath the waters.
This channel is by far one of the absolute best in the genre of educational content revolving around mythology and history. The different cultures, time periods, religious traditions and unique histories are difficult to accurately explain for most people. However, here, the research, presentation and analysis of these complex topics are made so well that it is easy to learn and retain the information. Most creators lay out their content in a scattered, wandering way that is a struggle to comprehend meanwhile, the stories and legends here are all so interesting and fascinating. I would think that taking such overwhelming information from so many different sources and trying to filter out the inaccurate and incorrect information to create educational segments that concisely yet complete packages has to be extremely challenging. But you make it look easy! Thanks for your hard work and dedication to bringing quality content that is both informative and entertaining to everyone!
I think another cautionary tale in Mermaids, sprites, and Fae in general. Don’t go kissing on random women.. they don’t like it and will likely kill you.
Mermaids and siren myths always center around the men who encounter them (or the women who become them), but I always wondered if a woman on Odysseus’ ship would be as susceptible to the sirens as men.
The animations are mesmerizing. I love the painterly style, the color choice is deliberate and beautiful and my favorite part is the composition of all the little elements and deep plane movement. All the little animations like moving kelp and water while the camera is moving gives the image a 3D pop in my brain. It looks magical.
I read years ago that mermen have their own siren singing that when heard by sailing women they would jump off their ships to try and reach them only to drown before they got there.
7:50 Sirens; the dark, edgy sisters of mermaids. Sirens are considered to be evil creatures who live in the sea. Generally, they are depicted as beautiful women with the tails of fish, but they can also be shown as scary, humanoid creatures with sharp teeth for tearing apart humans. Sirens are known for luring in sailors with their enchanting songs and then killing them.
Freya is Venus to the Romans, APHRODITE to the greeks, Hathor to the egyptians, ETIDORPHA the Fairy queen to the Freemasons, she was to the babylonians Ishtar and to the Sumerians, Inanna. All one in the same entity, and not a goddess, but a female FALLEN ANGEL, one of the ANNUNAKI, Which was worshipped as a female goddess OF WAR AND SEX, before the world flood, She descended with the rest of the watchers to the earth in a time of our pre-flood history and lusted after mortal men, and so was cursed to become a SIREN after the World flood AND forever lusting, tempting men in either half woman half bird, or half woman half fish form in order to have offspring by them and if she does not succeed kill and eat them, much like the BLACK WIDOW SPIDER
@@shedsumlight268 So basically a female from Jupiter who came to assist humanity and became without peer by surviving every possible attempt to get control of her
@@Jessica-zh2ck I don't believe I said female from Jupiter. The sirens were female angels, the ancients called them fertility goddeses or spirits. An angel is a spirit that can take on a human form often to relay a message to humanity, they are also mediators between humans and our Creator, as well as has a strong connection to creation of our world. Some have assistant many in the human guise with their observers being unaware that these beings are anything but human. However in the days of Jared according to the book of Enoch, 200 angels descended on mount hermon, lusting after humans and longing to beget children themselves. People have always assumed that these were all male heavenly / cosmic entities, The greeks refered to them as the gods that slept with mortal woman such as Zeus (Enlil) the great mountain god and Enki, god of the absu, waters aka Poseidon. yet these greek tales also speak of a few female goddesses that had sexual relations with mortal men, such as INANNA aka APHRODIE with Dinosys and even Demeter, so it wasn't just MALE FALLEN ANGELS but ALSO female angels. The male angels (watchers) as the book of Enoch states were bound together inside the earth, in the epic of gilgamesh they are referred to as the annunaki gods.Yet the females were not bound in tartarus, they were simply transformed into water spirits, into SIRENS to be exact, forever longing and lusting, as well as DECEIVING MANY UNFORTUNATE MEN, whom crosses paths with them. You find them in the tale of Atargatis and the sheptherd, MAMI WATA, in african lore, in fairy mythology, such as Melusine the demon countess of the house of Anjou and even the goddess Danu according to hinduism and Irish mythology etc. I am just piecieng the origins of these myths together for people.
I find it horrifying and glorifying at the same time while they're singing harmonies and luring you to accept your death (unwilling) but hard to not stop listening to the sound of their beautiful voice 😩🌊
The difference is harpies described as half human and bird but the human parts was ugly and theres only female harpies, while sirens their human parts remains beautiful and theres male variant of sirens. Harpies doesn't sing and didnt have connections to the sea, and sirens well known for their singing and often depicted near the sea, thats why sirens and mermaids myth somehow got mixed.
The harpies are different from Sirens. Sirens were pretty and could sing. Harpies are ugly, can’t sing, and only come when someone was cursed. The harpies are also sisters of Iris and Arke.
Myth is always complicated, but I'd draw a line between merfolks and nymphs. Merfolk are for the most part a symbol of the perils of sea travel, as the video says. The seductive maidens luring men to ther death (especially by rivers o lakes) belong more to the category of everyday monsters like kelpies. When a female figure is involved, though, the sexual element can't be denied. Nymphs are attractive (or pretend to be) and sexually liberated thus embodying the bad female that doesn't stick to the rigid code of conduct respectable women were supposed to comply with. It's not by chance that they always target men. Their stories are supposed to be a warning to young men and women, inviting them to "behave".
my mom's grandpa once saw a mermaid, my mom told me that her grandpa love to fish at night, cause that's what fishermen's do here in the Philippines, one day he sailed at night and he's doing great since he's getting a lot of fish until there's something smelly around him(smell's like fish) suddenly he saw a light , not too far from him, it's really bright then he approached it because of his curiousity and saw a mermaid twirling and swimming round and round looking like she's having fun, my mom said her grandpa got scared because od the looks, it's not pretty at all and looking like a fish, he quickly left and after he left and he's already in distance, the light suddenly dissaperead so that day my Mom's grandpa doesn't sail already at night alone, idk but my mom always said this is true but idk if this true or not
The "Creature From the Black Lagoon" 1954 (look him up). What would you call this creature? He is a kind of fish-man or "gill-man." Unlike the Sirens he didn't sing to get chicks to leap from their ships into the sea, no he went onto their boat and TOOK THEM!
Me and my cousin saw like 20 or more of them on the side of Santa Monica pier a few years back, at first it was just one, it was on the beach at first we thought it was a dog but then when the waves came in it jumped in the water, then more of them showed themselves but kept a distance. They also stayed out of the moonlight, I think to avoid pictures or to be seen even more, they were also lined up like soldiers.. I’m pretty sure they were there admiring the lights on the pier. Honest Truth. the ones I saw look kinda evil, really straight back posture, and even glowed a little, they looked kinda bluish but not sure what color they were but the glow was yellowish greenish luminescent. It wasn’t a very bright glow it was very dimmed but maybe could’ve been the pier lights reflecting off them but I don’t think so..
In Rwanda, mermaid were called Madame samaki, it was black in colour and white in the belly, it was said to see them around lake kivu. This story was told by a family member so I'm sure it was just to scare me 😃
My first visit to the beach yesterday I became dizzy yet drawn to the water.. I got used to it and didn't wanna leave .. I'm ascended much so I recieved a telepathic message of comfort but I knew it wasn't good.. I kept watching the waters .. and I also felt the force of being pulled in not just by the waves but to go in and I've always had a bad fear of drowning.. its unexplainable.. the ocean had a never ending song as the waves crashed and called my name
Sirens and Mermaids are not the same creature. A Siren is a bird women that lives on the coast by cliffs who lures sailors to crash their ships into rocks with the alluring songs. A Mermaid is a fish woman they live in the sea not on land like a Siren in the original folklore Mermaids would lure sailors with their beauty and pull them into the water taking them down to the depths too drown then let the sea water pickle the sailors before eating them. The latter folklore likely because Mermaids were confused with Sirens it was a Mermaid's song that lured in sailors.
I had heard of a version of the myth that said that one day the sirens were supposed to do a singing face off against the muses, the muses won and plucked the sirens feathers. The sirens fell into the water and grew fish tales which became the mermaids of today.
If you read the book of Enoch since the Church scrutinized this book and excluded it from the bible. They aren't bird-like creatures, Enoch tells the real story of how they came to be.
In the Igbo myth from Nigeria , we also refer to mermaids at Mami water.. known for bringing fortune to those who can sacrifice and leave treasures at the shore. They are also connected to the sea worship and the cleansing of souls
Interesting. As someone of Western Slavic background, I came upon Rusalkas as more of a water fairy than a malicious creature in pop culture and newer fairy tales (Yep they still make them a lot :D). I wonder if the Vodnik(or in Germanized form: Hastrman) would be classed as a type of a merman. Although they are more of a frogish creature than a fish...
Rusalkas have been known to braid horses manes, and when the owners see that on their horses they feel privileged. A lot of people do not think that they are evil creatures, but they are. There has been stories about them luring young guys to mingle with them, but they have been know to torture and kill young women. The best thing is not to seek them out or talk to them. This is real, not a myth.
Remember if you hear the Sirens call just put in your earbuds... or run it's your choice.
Or listen to the free concert
Please do a video on dragons🐲
Please do a video on Celelias. Seeing a video on Ursula's people would be cool.
Forgot about selkies
If you confront mermaid and she asked if Alexander the Great is still alive? I'll give you a nickels worth of free advise. Say yes!
The History Channel in the mid 90's was my introduction to Mermaids, they talked about how drunken Sailors would mistaken Manatees as Beautiful Women with a fish's tail, and even at 6 years old 3 questions would pop in my head;
1. How long were they at Sea?
2. How drunk were they?
3. What in the world did the Women from their home look like?
@Retsuko Fanatic123 lol how could they confuse a manatee with a woman? maybe they knew only fat women
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this guy get's it. it just seems absurd to even suggest that mermaids are just mistaken manatees,given the fact that manatees look nothing like fish or humans and not even someone from that age (less of all a experienced sailor) would have been dumb enough to not know the difference so that explanation is weak at best.
@@JT5555 it seems to me that the talk of mermaids and manatees was exaggerated or flat out made up through the ages. I could see it being something where drunken sailers pointed out that manatees swam like mermaids and through the grapevine of different people the statement changed to "we saw mermaids"
at a certain angle at a certain distance, a manatee could be mistaken for a women, though of course being under the influence probably has to do something with these “sightings”
In a world tormented by sirens, airpods are our only hope.
Or just regular fucking headphones
How the fuck i got more likes off of a stupidass comment like this than anyone else.
In a world of fake news its refreshing to hear opinion science on the facts of mermaid management and abatement. If we lose these lessons generations could be lost.
@Kowboy Conscious Community That's gonna go over most people's heads.
You must elaborate for the intellectualy declined
They don't know about harmful..EMF. Remember they are taught to worship technology and struggle to see past the veil of deception within there own lives.
Yet alone small material gadgets.
Lol😁🤣
*hears humming and hums along*
"Congratulations you were killed by a mermaid!"
Well Hell
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GG
Right lol me too
To me it sounded more like a little girl
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The Pan's Labyrinth melody in the beginning made me feel so nostalgic ✨🥺🥺😔
PANS LABYRINTH IS SUCH A GREAT FILM I ALMOST CRIED WHEN I HEARD THE INTRO
Same here I love that movie and everything Guillermo Del Toro makes, at least every movie I've seen haven't watched Pacific Rim.
Thought I was the only one that noticed
@@mrs.major_joe101 Came to the comments just to find validation in recognizing it ha
@@k.herzog814 yep
If a mermaid started singing, I'll start singing to let's see who'll run away.
Make it a sing off instead
Lmao
I used to threaten my children with singing loudly in public as a threat of unending humiliation for misbehavior
Lmaooi
LMFAOOO , Wtff 😆
That transition into the promo was smooth af.
“Messed Up Origins” ..... clever title choice 😉
ahhh hi jon
Lol Jon you are the OG for messed up origins!
I didn't see the channel name so I was confused to hear a a different voice, and I thought that this was a collab.
OMG hey! Welcome to this channel! :D
Omg I thought that this was one of your videos for a second I love your channel♥️ Solo Fam♥️
In Nigerian culture, Mermaids are called 'mami water' it is actually a representation of a Yoruba deity of water but cultures outside the Yoruba cultures see them as sea spirits that cause misfortune. I believe most cultures have mermaids or mermaid like figures in folklore.
This video was helpful, thanks!👍
IN ZULU CULTURE WE CALL THEM AMAKHOSI OR UMAMLAMBO..AND WHEN YOU DREAM OF THEM TALKING TO YOU THAT MEANS YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL GIFT OF HEALING. WE RESPECT THEM AS WE RESPECT OUR ANCESTORS.
@@busisiwemangethe6290 that is beautiful🥺
Everyone that lives on the water probably has stories of some kind of a being or creature, I wonder what stories were lost to time. I wish I knew more about all the people of Africa, there's so many different peoples and such a long period of time, it doesn't really get covered here in the US unless you look for it.
In Zimbabwean culture, it is said that if you see one you vanish,but if you do come back by chance,than you'll be a witch doctor or a sangoma
In my culture we refer to them as water djinns or water spirits.
In Jamaica, we call mermaids River Mumma (River Mother), a similar story as Sirens, once men hear their singing you're under their spell and led to their deaths.
But are both same or different ?
@@TarotRider-t2m they're pretty much the same
Is that true though ?
Um, can women hear the sound too and it just doesn’t hypnotize us? Or women can’t hear it at all ?
In the coastal parts of nigeria we call them mammy water and are known to be powerful creatures who sometimes bestow great favours on individuals but are generally avoided
As a child I was always fascinated by mermaids and sirens. Now as a 23 year old that fascination is still present and only grows more.
They are truly something magical, they appear in so many stories fact & fiction yet we still don’t know that many things about them.
I may be made fun of but I do think that they do exist. Only 5% of the ocean is explored and considering how we’ve seen how humans treat other creatures it would make sense that the mer people have learned to not associate with humans.
As much as I would love to see them I am afraid that some people would attack and kill them and display their bodies as some sort of trophy.
Never goes away. I love Mermaids
Could be they hangout by beaches at night waiting for poor saps to wander down near the water to ambush and eat them. Just a thought.
@@JariahxSynn I have been to beaches at nights, now I will be afraid. But I will stand far away
@@TarotRider-t2m Better safe than a slab of ribs
@@TarotRider-t2m you will be okay, until tsunami will appear or something 😅
My grandpa was a Costa Rican fisherman in the early 1900s; on a tranquil night on the sea, he and his shipmates saw two mermaids come to the bottom of their boat, touch it, circle it, and observe them before swimming off. He said it was terrifying and they looked pale and scary
How did they see them touch the bottom of their boat? Not trying to be rude, just making sure I’m reading this correctly
And you believed him huh😒😒😂🤣😂
bruh that shit probably manatee
Early 1900s? He is around 120 years old then?
@@Memeguppy Early 1900s could be any time from 1900 to like 1945
Mermaids are one of my favorite mythical creatures. Sirens are pure evil while Mermaids can be either good or bad.
How do we know that? That mermaids can be either good or bad. Aren’t sirens still mermaids?
@Peter Salucci I thought the half birds were harpys. Sirens are a different species from mermaids altogether? And with mermaids how do we know that they are either good or bad like humans?
It's the Sirens for me
@Peter Salucci ok I just wanted to know bc I never really thought mermaids and sirens were different. I thought they were the same and I was wondering what good mermaids have done for humans to say they were good or bad.
I never really dived deep into mythology
@Peter Salucci ok that’s what I really wanted to know. Thank you!
Sirens/Mermaids are one of my favorite mythical creatures so this video intrigues me. Also there is a Philipine equivalent called Sirena. Which is very similar to other mermaid equivalents. Half fish, luring song, drowning.
and then there's the siokoy - the males. Not attractive at all and even more hostile if I recall correctly.
@@NovaGirl8 The Shokoy look quite similar to the character in Shape of Water and Hellboy.
The Serina in the tagalogs are way more nicer but, the marinaga/maguindara are hostile and viscous towards adults specially men, they eat humans but, not the young ones that is from bicolandia myths while, the Kataw is a merefolk the royalty of the sea they can surely control water and they could appear almost human with webfeets, hands and can also have tails that's more on a Visayan background.
The Haitian mermaids actually scare me the stories you hear and when people do come back they’re different.
@@HortonGourcuff tell me the story....
@@HortonGourcuff make a youtube vid on it
I'm from Jamaica and they scare me too
@@brianflowers5675 why? What do they do?
For those of you who are wondering what would mermaids do well here’s the what you need to know merfolk can either be good or bad think of it this way animals have problems people have problems who’s the say those of the mystics and magics and the unusuals of the worlds mythical beings who is to say they don’t have problems of their own so the question you should ask yourself why would a mermaid be good or bad end it is not the fear of wondering whether they are good or bad it’s wondering who’s good or who’s bad in this category because we actually don’t know who is who in this but the same thing is for them they completely don’t know who’s good and who’s bad when it comes to humans so like anything that would react out of fear tear one would lash out at us as we would do the same to them in other words I’m thinking right now we are at some form of a stalemate you see if one doesn’t know about the other then what is there to do if you don’t want to start some violence the answer for the time being is nothing it’s a standstill a stalemate there are reports that we have killed them some of them and there are reports that they have killed us some of us but still it’s a stalemate because not the whole groups have come forth especially on both sides you and others may not notice but something tells me they’re all getting ready Nuh just the merfolk they are trying to make the first move not just the ones of the sea or the waters but the ones of air land both mountain and wood and underground if you haven’t noticed if you haven’t guessed there waiting but is slowly moving forward there are so many signs nowadays they have noticed they have taken noticed how could they not there’s a saying an old one they’re afraid of us more than we are afraid of them but has anyone figured out what would happen if one side knew how much the other side was afraid I fear that when someone steps forward their intentions are either two things in this situation one death or two life but there is a third one a hidden the third one would be……both and believe me in this situation if it is the third it is not good but I hope it will be I have a bad feeling and for those of you who have felt it too I pray and I hope and I wonder if this step forward that they have made will be to step on us or to help us make a step forward to someone say they are drawing the first blood what I’m saying is this why would you draw such a thing unless you have a really good reason one that matches and out dates anything know this something big is going to happen something really big something astonishing terrifying and full of wonder and misery whether it’s the negative or the positive I hope it’s the positive I am being vague there’s a reason for this after all the legends say that the Merfolk and others like them can become more or less……….human
I research all kinds of monsters for my books, and I can assure everyone that it is a good rule of thumb that supernatural beings are more malevolent than they appear in fairy tales. Mermaids, leprechauns, even the tooth fairy.
I think its fair to say, as with humans, not all are evil but not all are good.
I mean when you look at internet creepypastas, even most modern folklore is about violent and malevolent entities. I think people are just quicker to see the aspects of things that make them afraid.
@Robert Canter you are right!
Too sad and true
@@justyeeeeeetit These stories don't hesitate to point out the beneficial creatures. Like brownies. But there is a reason why certain magical creatures are portrayed as dangerous or evil. On the topic of water creatures, many of them are dangerous because they represent the dangers of water and the sea. Even more benevolent water creatures who are seen as benefactors of life can get aggressive and dangerous if offended. It's better to actually read up on these stories than make a judgment call.
"Congratulations, you were killed by a mermaid"
Me: I guess I'll call out from work.
So the mermaids from Pirates of the Caribbean were accurate?
Also those from Harry Potter?
Yes it is
Yep
In Pirates, the mermaids were fairly accurate indeed
Thanks! I now have an idea for a future story
The Harry Potter one is arguable, but yes
I find it terrifying that somehow the whole world (some civilisations that never come into contact with others too) talk about the same subject, slightly different stories just like Greeks but they all mention women like creatures with hypnotic singing voices, or extremely manipulative
Carl Jung would call that the collective unconscious and possibly an archetype
Sirens, mermaids, Rhine maidens, the Kappa, and the Bunyip (among many others) are personifications of the dangers of the water. They will wreck you on the rocks or pull you under to drown.
that same hypnotic singing voices are present in most, if not all modern commercial music, including religious songs. It's more sexually pronounced in pop music and a lot more subtle and "angelic" in religious music. And yes, angelic voices are also still very present in Godly music. The trick in knowing the difference is in the spirit the music evokes. Pray for discernment.
Japanese mermaid tears can grant wishes if you capture them because they harden to become pearls
...”they preferred to tickle their victims to death instead of drowning them...which Sounds equally as horrifying...” 😄😆
There's nothing like laughing to death but these use to be real forms of torture.
yes tourture lol
I would hate to laugh to death ....sounds scary
Or kinky depending on who you ask
12:44 Nigerian here, We usually call them "Mami Water"
Lol yes we do
Breast milk?
Yes oo
In benin we call them olokun
In yoruba it's yemoja
@@tomatopaste1936 yemoja is more than a mermaid...She is a goddess..Comparable to the Greek god of the sea Poseidon.
To be honest bro,Mami water😂😂😂😂
When I saw the american TV show Siren I truly realized that sirens and mermaids are used as synonyms nowadays. I knew sirens as they were described in that story about Odysseus .
Right? The Sirens originally weren't seducers. They sang to Odysseus about knowledge of the future. Basically, they lured people in with what they wanted the most. I guess today they would sing about loan forgiveness or how to get a PS5. I wonder if Harpies and Sirens are related?
@@theasinclaire52 As far as I know my mythology, they aren't related. Sirens are sea creatures, harpies are not. Sirens are supposed to be more on the prettier side than harpies which corresponds to their areas: sirens as temptation, harpies as punishment. Etc.
@@theasinclaire52 despite both being flying creatures in origin, not much related
@@vilena5308 mermaids are different being?
@@TarotRider-t2m How about you watch the video rather than just read the comments?
Left out, though not well known: The Mud Mermaids of Indiana.
A group of mermaids traveled through the Great Lake connectors and ended up making their way into the rivers of Indiana (probably still in the lakes too, but i'm unaware of stories about them.) I am not sure which branch of mermaid they are split from, but were I to guess I would wager the Merrows. These mermaids then settled in these localities and stayed. But as the water can disappear for stretches at a time they began burrowing themselves into the mud to stay wet, and sleeping away the dry spells whenever they arrose. Though if you walk over one, it pulls you down into the mud. Not too useful for hunting, but useful enough to keep people form going back there and disturbing them.
Has anyone ever escaped?
I would assume so. There's unfortunately so little information on them. I am more familiar of stories of alledged sightnings of them in rivers/lakes though.
Fascinating... I would LOVE to hear more about them..
Yes I'd love to hear about these!
Probably in the Lost River? I have family that's been in Indiana 100+yrs. Never heard of the Mud people. Kind of far fetched if you asked me. Esp. since most of them fish all the time.
And this is a good example of why I don't fuck with the ocean.
You should also not fuck the ocean.🤣
Ion fuck with the ocean at all
ive also heard that some sirens live in lakes and rivers too. i’m choosing to not fuck with any body of water at all lmao
Fuck in the ocean lol
@@thefunden9128 ikr
Been a subscriber when you just started out and haven't checked your channel in a while. Holy moly, congrats on your growth!!
Who does the illustrations in these videos?
THE ILLUSTRATIONS IN YOUR VIDEOS ARE AWESOME!
Markus Stadlober. It says so in the end credits.
*hears humming*
Me: *Loads Shotgun with Malicious Intent and turns on Chainsaw*
Catch me them mermaids so that we'll devour them😈
@Christiana Maria Ortega the important thing is that they are not pure human...come to think of it,if you eat a mermaid you will be beautiful
*Hears beautiful siren songs*
"Groovy."
My dad actually saw a mermaid. It was in Oklahoma around the 1950 “s. He was a child. A neighbor adult caught two mermaids in a creek. They were babies one male one female. The adult neighbor caught them in a jar. The mail jumped out. The man sold the mermaid to a person from New York City for a large amount of $. My dad said the mermaid was not cute. He said the face was weird. It’s an old story that is told in my family. My dad is 77 and he still tells that story
That’s pretty fucked up if you think about it
@@angelique757 so fucked up
In Oklahoma?😳 I didn’t know they could be anywhere. Even here
Fucked up
So these merpeople aren't spiritual beings? They're physical like us? Because I had been friends with someone from Ghana who told me they were demons. Plus all the stories from Zimbabwe I have read saying that mermaids using mystical powers on their victims. Please reply by the way.
I have heard such stories as a child of a man who drown in one of the rivers in my late grandmother's village. People were saying she fooled him to go in the water and cause him to drawn. They are not as beautiful as we would like them to appear in stories but it maybe true that they are able to alter their appearance to hunt the victim down. Strange but real.
The most interesting evil mermaid flick I’ve ever seen is “She Creature,” which was made in 2001. Stan Winston and his special effects team did a phenomenal job on creating the mermaid and the sea monster that she turns into later in the film.
Loved that movie , I definitely recommend seeing she - creature .
I remember one time at night i was with a group of friends by the water, and i saw something, like a human figure in the water slowly moving towards us, getting closer and closer every second...never been so scared in my life
Please!!!!!!! Cover Mayan mythology, it's my favourite
It's always good to see videos like this that cover general mythical concepts, and this one is good since I am trying to create my own "mermaids" in my story setting that live underground on venus.
Hoho this popped up right when I was listening to my jolly sailor bold
Hello sailor
@@Merlodica Aye!
Love that song! Especially the Ashley Serena version 🖤
An Indian right??👀😂
Ahoy?
Mermaids (especially Rusalka) are one of those cautionary beings. They say DONT FUCK WITH RIVERS
Surprised you didn’t mention the Hans Christian Anderson Little Mermaid. But I guess that story has been told to death by this point.
HC Andersens wrote novels, they arent neither mythology nor legends even thou they sometime borrows from them
"I knew desperate men at sea, when our suppy ran dry, would quench their thirst by drinking seawater.
They swore the sirens, evil creatures singing to them from nearby islands, were in fact their wives and daughters calling them home.
They endangered the crew, steering us toward the reefs."
"Um... how did you fix them?"
"We threw them overboard."
Thru who overboard?
Can you please do more videos on south East Asian mythology and fiction? My friend is Thai and she told me about this poet that wrote a story about a prince who had a baby with a mermaid and there’s giants and stuff. The poet’s name was Suthorn Phu he started working on this epic fantasy from 1822 and took 22 years to finish in 1844!
What's the name of the story?
@@Introvertsan she said it’s called “Phra Aphai Mani”
@@vegandemon3259 thanks much
There is a syrian tale of a shepherd having sex with a mermaid woman and they had a child called Semiramis, SHE BECAME THE MOTHER and WIFE OF NIMROD the ancient Babylonian king who built a gigantic and high tower to reach into heaven. The tower was destroyed and the people were dispersed all over the world giving rise to many cultures, different tribes, peoples and nations. Within this bloodline of the Babylonian king and Queen, you find the CANAANITE GIANTS. the rafahim, sons of Anuk, short for annunaki. You might have heard of them? So the stories from Japan may be oral traditional stories retold in their new countries, of a time when everyone on the earth was living in one place as one people under the Babylonian king nimrod and that prince and mermaid tale comes straight from ancient babylon.
In indonesia there is "nyi roro kidul" the queen of the sea who rules the southern sea kingdom in java first written in the kingdom of mataram and rules every spirit and demon from east to west java and protects the royal family of jogja and has an agent on land called lampor (javanese grim reaper) which in javanese means "loud noise" because when you hear lampor or loud noises at night that means "nyi roro kidul" is coming to mount merapi to visit the "pasar setan" or "satan's store" .
My grandma said mermaids do exist. Fishermen would see them and would cover their ears because if they listen to their singing they become hypnotized and the mermaids would lure them and capture them. She said they would say that their singing was beautiful but deadly. Not sure where this would happen but it was in the waters in Mexico.
What about if your not attracted to woman and your out on the sea? Could the mermaids still hypnotize you or would you not be affected ?
He lyin
What if the fishermen we're gay?
Like gay ashell 100% gay would the singing still work on gay man?
@@vibesxryan it would work even on gay guys because they have mystical powers, and we as humans, become enchanted by those creatures.
@@Dzanarika1 really? Because I’m a gay boy myself and I think it would still work but we can resist it more or at least try to fight back because we aren’t attracted to female mermaids. However, if it was male mermaids it’s a completely different story because I would be in a trance LMAO
Some stories say that the experience of a siren/mermaid luring you in is like you hear singing, all of sudden your right next to the water, then like a blink of any eye your fully in the water…then all you can feel is your last breath leaving your lungs beneath the waters.
That Pan's Labyrinth music at the intro though
Your voice is so calming. I enjoy listening to you tell stories.
This channel is by far one of the absolute best in the genre of educational content revolving around mythology and history. The different cultures, time periods, religious traditions and unique histories are difficult to accurately explain for most people. However, here, the research, presentation and analysis of these complex topics are made so well that it is easy to learn and retain the information. Most creators lay out their content in a scattered, wandering way that is a struggle to comprehend meanwhile, the stories and legends here are all so interesting and fascinating. I would think that taking such overwhelming information from so many different sources and trying to filter out the inaccurate and incorrect information to create educational segments that concisely yet complete packages has to be extremely challenging. But you make it look easy! Thanks for your hard work and dedication to bringing quality content that is both informative and entertaining to everyone!
I think another cautionary tale in Mermaids, sprites, and Fae in general.
Don’t go kissing on random women.. they don’t like it and will likely kill you.
As soon as I saw the notification I clicked
This video was actually very enlightening, I learned a lot more than I thought I already knew. Is there a chance you would do a history of dark elves
Yes your right
Also I love the improvements in the art and editing as time goes on. Excited for more videos!
I have always been so fascinated with merfolf ever since I was a child ❤️
She Creature is my favorite mermaid tale. Classic horror, reminds me of old Universal films.
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Agree!!
Mermaids and siren myths always center around the men who encounter them (or the women who become them), but I always wondered if a woman on Odysseus’ ship would be as susceptible to the sirens as men.
I've binged so many of your stories in the last couple of hours. I've been subscribed for a while but damn, it's always a great time on your channel.
The animations are mesmerizing. I love the painterly style, the color choice is deliberate and beautiful and my favorite part is the composition of all the little elements and deep plane movement. All the little animations like moving kelp and water while the camera is moving gives the image a 3D pop in my brain. It looks magical.
I read years ago that mermen have their own siren singing that when heard by sailing women they would jump off their ships to try and reach them only to drown before they got there.
Source?
7:50 Sirens; the dark, edgy sisters of mermaids. Sirens are considered to be evil creatures who live in the sea. Generally, they are depicted as beautiful women with the tails of fish, but they can also be shown as scary, humanoid creatures with sharp teeth for tearing apart humans. Sirens are known for luring in sailors with their enchanting songs and then killing them.
For women month you should make a some videos on incredible female goddesses like Persephone, Ishtar and Freya. Or the goddess Inanna.
Freya! ❤️❤️❤️
Or Daphne
Freya is Venus to the Romans, APHRODITE to the greeks, Hathor to the egyptians, ETIDORPHA the Fairy queen to the Freemasons, she was to the babylonians Ishtar and to the Sumerians, Inanna. All one in the same entity, and not a goddess, but a female FALLEN ANGEL, one of the ANNUNAKI, Which was worshipped as a female goddess OF WAR AND SEX, before the world flood, She descended with the rest of the watchers to the earth in a time of our pre-flood history and lusted after mortal men, and so was cursed to become a SIREN after the World flood AND forever lusting, tempting men in either half woman half bird, or half woman half fish form in order to have offspring by them and if she does not succeed kill and eat them, much like the BLACK WIDOW SPIDER
@@shedsumlight268 So basically a female from Jupiter who came to assist humanity and became without peer by surviving every possible attempt to get control of her
@@Jessica-zh2ck I don't believe I said female from Jupiter. The sirens were female angels, the ancients called them fertility goddeses or spirits. An angel is a spirit that can take on a human form often to relay a message to humanity, they are also mediators between humans and our Creator, as well as has a strong connection to creation of our world. Some have assistant many in the human guise with their observers being unaware that these beings are anything but human. However in the days of Jared according to the book of Enoch, 200 angels descended on mount hermon, lusting after humans and longing to beget children themselves. People have always assumed that these were all male heavenly / cosmic entities, The greeks refered to them as the gods that slept with mortal woman such as Zeus (Enlil) the great mountain god and Enki, god of the absu, waters aka Poseidon. yet these greek tales also speak of a few female goddesses that had sexual relations with mortal men, such as INANNA aka APHRODIE with Dinosys and even Demeter, so it wasn't just MALE FALLEN ANGELS but ALSO female angels. The male angels (watchers) as the book of Enoch states were bound together inside the earth, in the epic of gilgamesh they are referred to as the annunaki gods.Yet the females were not bound in tartarus, they were simply transformed into water spirits, into SIRENS to be exact, forever longing and lusting, as well as DECEIVING MANY UNFORTUNATE MEN, whom crosses paths with them. You find them in the tale of Atargatis and the sheptherd, MAMI WATA, in african lore, in fairy mythology, such as Melusine the demon countess of the house of Anjou and even the goddess Danu according to hinduism and Irish mythology etc. I am just piecieng the origins of these myths together for people.
I always pictured sirens and mermaids as not being the same but being related. Same mother or same father as it were.
I find it horrifying and glorifying at the same time while they're singing harmonies and luring you to accept your death (unwilling) but hard to not stop listening to the sound of their beautiful voice 😩🌊
Yeah the most high cursed them the one people say don't exist
Well s***, just when I was going to take down Thanos, a bloody mermaid comes along and kills me a bit!!
Pan’s Labyrinth in the beginning was **chef’s kiss**
As a young man, my mother always told me fables of mermaids 🧜♀️
Your mother secretly a mermaid herself
I thought the bird women were Harpy's in Greek mythology
Multiple bird hybrids. Like a Pegasus and a unicorn or kelpie
The difference is harpies described as half human and bird but the human parts was ugly and theres only female harpies, while sirens their human parts remains beautiful and theres male variant of sirens.
Harpies doesn't sing and didnt have connections to the sea, and sirens well known for their singing and often depicted near the sea, thats why sirens and mermaids myth somehow got mixed.
@@yokhawanha thank you for the clarification 😊
The harpies are different from Sirens. Sirens were pretty and could sing. Harpies are ugly, can’t sing, and only come when someone was cursed. The harpies are also sisters of Iris and Arke.
“Now, if there’s one place we can rely on for these stories to get super weird in terms of appearance, you can always count on Japan.”
True.
celtic myth is also in the creepy weirdo category.
Thank you for covering this topic because I freaking love mermaids 🧜♀️
Keep up the great work!
I love this intro! It really felt like I was walking into the dark Forest Lake
This was amazing as always! I loved the intro and the sponsor segment!
Myth is always complicated, but I'd draw a line between merfolks and nymphs.
Merfolk are for the most part a symbol of the perils of sea travel, as the video says.
The seductive maidens luring men to ther death (especially by rivers o lakes) belong more to the category of everyday monsters like kelpies.
When a female figure is involved, though, the sexual element can't be denied. Nymphs are attractive (or pretend to be) and sexually liberated thus embodying the bad female that doesn't stick to the rigid code of conduct respectable women were supposed to comply with.
It's not by chance that they always target men.
Their stories are supposed to be a warning to young men and women, inviting them to "behave".
my mom's grandpa once saw a mermaid, my mom told me that her grandpa love to fish at night, cause that's what fishermen's do here in the Philippines, one day he sailed at night and he's doing great since he's getting a lot of fish until there's something smelly around him(smell's like fish) suddenly he saw a light , not too far from him, it's really bright then he approached it because of his curiousity and saw a mermaid twirling and swimming round and round looking like she's having fun, my mom said her grandpa got scared because od the looks, it's not pretty at all and looking like a fish, he quickly left and after he left and he's already in distance, the light suddenly dissaperead so that day my Mom's grandpa doesn't sail already at night alone, idk but my mom always said this is true but idk if this true or not
The "Creature From the Black Lagoon" 1954 (look him up). What would you call this creature? He is a kind of fish-man or "gill-man." Unlike the Sirens he didn't sing to get chicks to leap from their ships into the sea, no he went onto their boat and TOOK THEM!
Well feels like more like HP Lovecraft deep one the creature From the black lagoon
HP Lovecraft story called Dagon.
That would be a _seaman_
The Irish have the salmon woman in stories with st. Patrick
"... reminding you to stay away from the fish women."
but ... but .... they started singing Macarena!
There’s also mermen🧜🏿♂️
HEYYY Macarena !!!
* gets pulled to the bottom of the sea *
... worth it.
Me and my cousin saw like 20 or more of them on the side of Santa Monica pier a few years back, at first it was just one, it was on the beach at first we thought it was a dog but then when the waves came in it jumped in the water, then more of them showed themselves but kept a distance. They also stayed out of the moonlight, I think to avoid pictures or to be seen even more, they were also lined up like soldiers.. I’m pretty sure they were there admiring the lights on the pier. Honest Truth. the ones I saw look kinda evil, really straight back posture, and even glowed a little, they looked kinda bluish but not sure what color they were but the glow was yellowish greenish luminescent. It wasn’t a very bright glow it was very dimmed but maybe could’ve been the pier lights reflecting off them but I don’t think so..
Imagine if a woman described the sirens song and all she heard was terribly loud, deafening screaming. Just something of nightmares.
If merfolk were real, I'd hope they were monstrous with an air of ethereal beauty.
I wish you made more like this, the presentation was totally eye catching, my class lost there minds over this and they want to watch it all the time
Hearing the humming in the beginning “hey, I know that song.”
In Rwanda, mermaid were called Madame samaki, it was black in colour and white in the belly, it was said to see them around lake kivu. This story was told by a family member so I'm sure it was just to scare me 😃
My first visit to the beach yesterday I became dizzy yet drawn to the water.. I got used to it and didn't wanna leave .. I'm ascended much so I recieved a telepathic message of comfort but I knew it wasn't good.. I kept watching the waters .. and I also felt the force of being pulled in not just by the waves but to go in and I've always had a bad fear of drowning.. its unexplainable.. the ocean had a never ending song as the waves crashed and called my name
i am so so grateful for this. one of my favorite lores - i always thought it was so cool how every region has their own adaptations of mermaids too
I love it how you included Slavic folklore.
Sirens and Mermaids are not the same creature. A Siren is a bird women that lives on the coast by cliffs who lures sailors to crash their ships into rocks with the alluring songs. A Mermaid is a fish woman they live in the sea not on land like a Siren in the original folklore Mermaids would lure sailors with their beauty and pull them into the water taking them down to the depths too drown then let the sea water pickle the sailors before eating them. The latter folklore likely because Mermaids were confused with Sirens it was a Mermaid's song that lured in sailors.
@@Sirendagawdybrawd isnt that all women?
I had heard of a version of the myth that said that one day the sirens were supposed to do a singing face off against the muses, the muses won and plucked the sirens feathers. The sirens fell into the water and grew fish tales which became the mermaids of today.
If you read the book of Enoch since the Church scrutinized this book and excluded it from the bible. They aren't bird-like creatures, Enoch tells the real story of how they came to be.
I thought a bird woman was a harpy
Will you do a video on the dark origins of Faeries?
Fairies*
@@mysteriouscee1086 either is correct
Loved the Pans Labyrinth lullaby in the beginning. Such a soothing yet haunting song. I shall hum it to my children in the future.
I've come to a realization
Sirens are evil
Mermaids can be bad or good
Nymphs are good
I would really like to see a video about ghosts. I think its one of the few topics you haven’t covered yet! Love this channel!!
Whatever people say, I believe this creature exists. And I love them.
Thank you for the video! Love your channel. Much love from Malaysia.
considering how lazy and apathetic i am if i ever encountered a mermaid id probably just offer them an Oreo cookie. 🤷🏾♂️
@@gaventer2022Oh? what makes you say that?🤨
I actually love the intro with the lullaby from Pan’s Labyrinth it just fits the kinda chilling mood
In the Igbo myth from Nigeria , we also refer to mermaids at Mami water.. known for bringing fortune to those who can sacrifice and leave treasures at the shore. They are also connected to the sea worship and the cleansing of souls
The demon tricked y'all
🌸 The Rusalka were water sprites, spirt of women that died in water, perhaps murdered, they basically seek revenge
So they will drown evil men lol 😂
Proteus is my favourite merman with his shapeshifting powers from Greek Myth
Im glad I found this channel. I hope you do selkies in the future and any other beings that are similar.
That humming along with the water and thunder in the begin was hella calming 😂
Only to find out that it killed me
SOMEONE: Have you heard? The Sirens and mermaids are coming?
ANOTHER: Yeah, let's use our Raycons!
SOMEONE: Oh, no! These ran out of batteries!!
To the mast with you! 😂
Interesting. As someone of Western Slavic background, I came upon Rusalkas as more of a water fairy than a malicious creature in pop culture and newer fairy tales (Yep they still make them a lot :D).
I wonder if the Vodnik(or in Germanized form: Hastrman) would be classed as a type of a merman. Although they are more of a frogish creature than a fish...
Rusalkas have been known to braid horses manes, and when the owners see that on their horses they feel privileged. A lot of people do not think that they are evil creatures, but they are.
There has been stories about them luring young guys to mingle with them, but they have been know to torture and kill young women. The best thing is not to seek them out or talk to them. This is real, not a myth.
In more recent years the idea of sierens seems even more scary especially with their symbolism in that movie The Lighthouse
That was a great movie
Whoa! When did reach/pass 1 million subs? Congrats, dude!
I've been watching since 2019. You had about 300k subs back then. Now you're at 1 million! 👌
Hold up...
Is that why emergency sound signals are called "sirens"?
So then there is some truth lost in translation here?
Now I'm hooked...
Waited sooooooo long
Ha ha, the introduction tongue in cheek!
this was beautiful and creative. My students would love this verison of mers