世界未解之迷：神秘海底人鱼之谜
世界地理频道
老普利尼是一位记述过“人鱼”生物的自然科学 (http://tech.qq.com/all/index.htm)家，在他的不朽著作《自然历史》中写到：“至于美人鱼，也叫做尼厄丽德，这并非难以置信……她们是真实的，只不过身体粗糙，遍体有鳞，甚至象女人的那些部位也有鳞片。”
1990年4月《文汇报》有这样一则报道：一些科学家正在竭力设法找到这一当今考古学最惊人 的发现，一个3000年前美人鱼的木乃伊遗体的由来。一队建筑工人，在索契城外的黑海岸边附近的一个放置宝物的坟墓里，发现了这一难以相信的生物。这一发 现的消息是由苏联考古学家耶里米亚博士在最近透露给西方的。她看起来像一个美丽的黑皮肤公主，下面有一条鱼尾巴。这一惊人的生物从头顶到带鳞的尾巴，计长 有173厘米。科学家相信她死时约有100多岁的年龄。
1991年7月2日，新加坡《联合日报》发表了题为《南斯拉夫海岸发现1.2万年前美人鱼化 石》的报道：科学家们最近发掘到世界首具完整的美人鱼化石，证实了这种以往只在童话中出现的动物，的确曾在真实世界里存在过。化石是在南斯拉夫海岸发现 的。化石保存得很完整，能够清楚见到这种动物拥有锋利的牙齿，还有强壮的双颚，足以撕肉碎骨，将猎物杀死。“这只动物是雌性的。大概1.2万年前在附近海 岸出现。”柏列·奥干尼博士说。奥干尼博士是一名来自美国加州的考古学家，在美人鱼出现的海域工作了4年。奥干尼博士说：“它在一次水底山泥倾泻时活埋， 然后被周围的石灰石所保护，而慢慢转为化石。化石显示，美人鱼高160厘米，腰部以上像人类，头部发达，脑体积相当大，双手有利爪，眼睛跟其他鱼类一样， 无有眼帘。
上半身是人下半身是鱼的
1991年8月，美国两名渔民发现人鱼事件，报道如下：最近美国两名职业捕鲨高手在加勒比海 海域捕到十一条鲨鱼，其中有一条虎鲨长18.3米，当渔民解剖这条虎鲨时，在它的腹内胃里发现了一副异常奇怪的骸骨骨架，骸骨上身三分之一象成年人的骨 骼，但从骨盆开始却是一条大鱼的骨骼。当时渔民将之转交警方，警方立即通知验尸官进行检验，检验结果证实是一种半人半鱼的生物。对于这副奇特的骨骼，警方 又请专家进一步研究，并将资料输入电脑，根据骨骼形状绘制出了美人鱼形状。参加这项工作的美国埃毁斯度博士说，从他们所掌握的证据来看，美人鱼并不是传说 或虚构出来的生物，而是世界上确实存在的一种生物。
上半身是鱼下半身是人的
科威特的《火炬报》在1980年8月24日报道：最近，在红海海岸发现了生物公园的一个奇迹 --美人鱼。美人鱼的形状上半身如鱼，下半身象女人的形体----跟人一样长着两条腿和十个脚趾。可惜的是，它被发现时已经死了。……关于对活人鱼的发现 也是有的。1962年曾发生过一起科学家活捉小人鱼的事件。英国的《太阳报》，中国哈尔滨http://weather.qq.com/images/endnew/weather_icon.gif (http://weather.qq.com/preend.htm?dc17.htm)的 《新晚报》及其它许多家报刊对此事进行了报道。前苏联列宁科学院维诺葛雷德博士讲述了经过：1962年，一艘载有科学家和军事专家的探测船，在古巴外海捕 获一个能讲人语的小孩，皮肤呈鳞状，有鳃，头似人，尾似鱼。小人鱼称自己来自亚特兰蒂斯市，还告诉研究人员在几百万年前，亚特兰蒂斯大陆横跨非洲和南美， 后来沉入海底……现在留存下来的人居于海底，寿命达300岁。后来小人鱼被送往黑海一处秘密研究机构里，供科学家们深入研究。
其它有关发现
1958年，美国国家海洋学会的罗坦博士，在大西洋5公里深的海底，摄到一些类似人的海底足迹。
1963年，在波多黎各东南海底，美国海军潜艇演习时，发现了一条怪船，时速280公里，无 法追踪，人类现代科技望尘莫及。1968年，美国摄影师穆尼，在海底附近发现怪物，脸像猴子，脖子比人长四倍，眼睛像人但要大得多，腿部有快速“推进 器”。1938年，人们曾在爱沙尼亚的朱明达海滩上，发现“蛤蟆人”，鸡胸、扁嘴、圆脑袋，飞快跳进波罗的海里。诸如“人鱼”这类海底奇异生物的存在由于 有了实物作证，那么它也就由人们所谓的“荒诞”、“迷信”、“神话”的东西转变为当前一项严肃的科学研究课题了。
这个是最近发现的~不过总觉得很假......
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ubiquitous
07-11-05, 23:03
我一直相信有美人鱼，还希望能碰到他们然后送给我美丽的红珊瑚跟珍珠~~~
日本傳說中的人魚
資料來源：FF網友來稿
2005年6月25日
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網路上所流傳的圖片，日本大阪市浪速區瑞龍寺所收藏的人魚
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圖中就是當時活的人魚情形西元1682年天和二年、日本外海有漁民捕撈到人魚，將消息告訴了，喜歡收購一些稀奇古怪的富商萬代藤兵衛所購入。萬代藤兵衛高與的不得了，想要飼養活的人魚，就這樣富商萬代藤兵衛，公開將人魚給世人看，不幸的人魚活不久，被萬代藤兵衛所養死了，人魚被製成標本。
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你現在看的是人魚左邊，尾巴向右的是人魚右邊拍攝生前於天和二年九月將人魚寄贈給日本大阪市浪速區瑞龍寺所做的人魚箱，其中他就收藏包括龍，人魚，河童，這些都是富商萬代藤兵衛所捐的，他的兒子萬代麻??，昭和五十年有在重新製作箱子。經過怎麼久人魚，龍，河童箱，有經過一番美觀整修，日本大阪市浪速區瑞龍寺收藏館。
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寬政12年現今的1800年，滋賀縣蒲生川，石童丸所捕獲到人魚，有多少人看過石童丸的人魚，造成轟動出價跟他買，石童丸不賣，將人魚帶回，這個人魚身高一公尺多，發出嬰兒似的哭聲。
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石童丸之母將死的人魚供奉在蘇萱堂，事情就這樣傳開來，祠堂有祭祀傳說中人魚木乃伊，和歌山縣橋本市學文路蘇萱堂收藏著。(曾經受過電視專訪上過超自然電視節目探討)
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和歌山縣橋本市學文路蘇萱堂所收藏
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用盒子保存的相當好
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頭部放大寫真
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日本最古老的人魚
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東森青蓉 K 新聞接受訪問，那張是有經過綠色著色，不是原圖
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古老發黃的照片是某名記者拍的，到現在還沒有彩色版日本最早最古老的人魚，靜岡縣富士宮市宗教法人天照教總社現存的人魚，只讓天照教信徒出入，只要信教者進去才能看人魚，所以人魚一直都沒有人公開。藏於靜岡縣富士宮市天照教的人魚，身高一百七十公分的全身人魚木乃伊其形體，不能說是美，長得滿醜惡。天照教人魚木乃伊的由來距今約一千四百年前，聖德太子隱居在琵琶湖的石山寺，聖德太子某天到了河邊，看到漁民在捕魚，忽然有條人魚出現，躍出水湖上來，這麼叫道說我是長年在此打魚的人，因為殺生之罪，才變成這個模樣。人魚說道願我死之後，能流傳給後世殺生的人為戒，人魚叫完而氣絕，聖德太子就帶著人魚屍體，傳入石山寺被製成了木乃伊。新潟縣柏崎市妙智寺所收藏的人魚
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崎玉縣南圻玉郡河通村大字平原，深井老年人所擁有的人魚秘寶，深井老翁喜歡書畫和古董的事，常常和喜歡收集古董的好朋友在一起。從明治三十二年六月一日，深井老人身體開始起了變化，身體弱的老年人深井病了，經常找醫生治療，不過都沒有效果。只到深井老翁病逝享年七十七歲，將生前喜愛的人魚收藏交給好友，捐給新潟縣柏崎市妙智寺。
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西南太平洋裴濟群島漁民所捕獲的人魚，交由哈佛大學教授研究，所保存人魚的木乃伊。1990年4月《文匯報》有這樣一則報道，一名建築工人，在所砌城外的黑海岸邊附近，一個放置寶物的墳墓裡，發現了這難以相信的生物，這一發現的消息是由蘇聯考古學家耶里米亞博士，在最近透露給西方的。
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科學家正在竭力設法找到人魚的證據，當今考古學最驚人的發現就是圖中三千年前美人魚木乃伊遺體，是名一名建築工人，黑海古代墓穴附近找到的，相當有力的證據。 她看起來像一個美麗的黑皮膚公主，下面有一條魚尾巴，驚人的生物從頭頂到帶鱗的尾巴，計長有173厘米，科學家相信她死時約有100多歲的年齡。1991年7月2日，新加坡《聯合日報》發表了題為《南斯拉夫海岸發現1.2萬年前美人魚化石》的報道：科學家們最近發掘到世界首具完整的美人魚化石，証實了這種以往只在童話中出現的動物，的確曾在真實世界裡存在過。化石是在南斯拉夫海岸發現的，化石保存得很完整，能夠清楚見到這種動物擁有鋒利的牙齒，還有強壯的雙顎，足以撕肉碎骨將獵物殺死，這只動物是雌性的。大概1.2萬年前在附近海岸出，柏列奧干尼博士說，奧干尼博士是一名來自美國加州的考古學家，在美人魚出現的海域工作了4年。奧干尼博士說，它在一次水底山泥傾瀉時活埋，然後被周圍的石灰石所保護，而慢慢轉為化石，化石顯示，美人魚高160厘米，腰部以上像人類，頭部發達，腦體積相當大，雙手有利爪，眼睛跟其他魚類一樣無有眼帘，上半身是人下半身是魚的。1991年8月美國兩名漁民發現人魚事件，報道如下，最近美國兩名職業捕鯊高手在加勒比海海域捕到十一條鯊魚，其中有一條虎鯊長18.3米，當漁民解剖這條虎鯊時，在它的腹內胃里發現了一副異常奇怪的骸骨骨架，骸骨上身三分之一象成年人的骨骼，但從骨盆開始卻是一條大魚的骨骼。當時漁民將之轉交警方，警方立即通知驗屍官進行檢驗，檢驗結果証實是一種半人半魚的生物。對於這副奇特的骨骼，警方又請專家進一步研究，並將資料輸入電腦，根據骨骼形狀繪制出了美人魚形狀。參加這項工作的美國埃毀斯度博士說，從他們所掌握的証據來看，美人魚並不是傳說或虛構出來的生物，而是世界上確實存在的一種生物。 1980年8月24日科威特的《火炬報》報導，最近在紅海海岸發現了生物公園的一個奇跡美人魚。美人魚的形狀上半身如魚，下半身象女人的形體跟人一樣長著兩條腿，和十個腳趾，可惜的是它被發現時已經死了。 1962年曾發生過一起科學家活捉小人魚的事件，英國的《太陽報》，中國哈爾濱的《新晚報》，及其它許多家報刊對此事進行了報道。前蘇聯列寧科學院維諾葛雷德博士講述了經過。 1962年一艘載有科學家和軍事專家的探測船，在古巴外海捕獲一個能講人語的小孩，皮膚呈鱗狀有鰓頭似人尾似魚，小人魚稱自己來自亞特蘭蒂斯市，還告訴研究人員在幾百萬年前，亞特蘭蒂斯大陸橫跨非洲和南美，後來沉入海底現在留存下來的人居於海底，壽命達300歲，後來小人魚被送往黑海一處秘密研究機構里，供科學家們深入研究 1958年美國國家海洋學會的羅坦博士，在大西洋5公里深的海底，攝到一些類似人的海底足跡。1963年在波多黎各東南海底，美國海軍潛艇演習時，發現了一條怪船，時速280公里，無法追蹤，人類現代科技望塵莫及。1968年美國攝影師穆尼，在海底附近發現怪物，臉像猴子，脖子比人長四倍，眼睛像人但要大得多，腿部有快速推進器。1938年人們曾在愛沙尼亞的朱明達海灘上，發現蛤蟆人，雞胸．扁嘴．圓腦袋，飛快跳進波羅的海裡。諸如"人魚"這類海底奇異生物的存在由於有了實物作証﹐那麼它也就由人們所謂的"荒誕"﹑"迷信"﹑"神話"的東西轉變為當前一項嚴肅的科學研究課題了。 柏拉圖之旅有見活生生的人魚，也去過傳說中的雅特蘭提斯之城。
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我一直相信有美人鱼，还希望能碰到他们然后送给我美丽的红珊瑚跟珍珠~~~
如今感觉人鱼不一定美……
ubiquitous
07-11-06, 22:45
如今感觉人鱼不一定美……
如果他们真的有血有肉很善良，一定是很美的~~~毕竟在很多女孩心理，人鱼都是伴随着为爱情而牺牲的美丽泡沫~~~~呵呵
诶~~人总是爱一厢情愿~
可能人鱼有长的漂亮的吧，就像中国人离既出貂蝉又出芙蓉~
剩下的慎入~~
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藕实在不想露点
昨天的T台走秀，藕是哭着下场的。藕没想到会这样，藕冰清玉洁的雪白乳房事先贴了乳贴以保安全，但还是遭到无数火眼金睛的观众无情的蹂躏。藕被变相的强奸啦，藕真的不要活啦，藕哭，藕哭，藕哭哭哭！
刚开始和设计师沟通衣服的款式时，藕说希望有个很华贵的公主裙，配上华美闪耀的纱质披肩，一边走台，一边轻舞纱巾，一边优雅艺术的脱掉公主裙，露出里面的具有中国特色的改良旗袍，接下来，轻舞腰肢，脱去旗袍，露出经典的民族肚兜，展现流畅的S型曲线，和丰腴雪白的肌肤。所有的一切都要优美，高贵，艺术，深谙藕深厚的舞蹈功底和举世无双的身材。一层层的剥去外衣，一次次显现不同特色不同风格的服装。
但是，第一次试衣时，当藕看到最后为藕制作出来的服装时，不由得轻蹙眉头微微叹息。藕穿着这个肥大如工装裤般的鱼美人服，委屈的抗议，藕哪有这么肥，太玷污藕绝美的身材。还有这个胸衣，要好好改改，要不然肯定要走光。藕希望多些胸饰的设计，凸显藕美丽妖媚的丰满乳房。可是……555，在发布会上，藕还是无奈的穿上了似乎没有经过任何修改的鱼美人服。
上场前，藕提着肥大的鱼美人裤，不断的拉扯着胸部的布，失魂落魄，不知道怎么办，幸好藕助理见状问主办方索要了一付乳贴，才没有让藕在走台时彻底失去乳房的贞操。但是藕还是露了，露了，露了！！！！藕昨夜在梦中哭醒，很委屈：露点真的不是藕的本意！！！
肥大的衣服，沉重的裤子，下垂的裤裆，没有淋漓尽致的展现藕的腰身曲线，反而一次次差点把藕绊倒。藕不敢放开展示自己的疯狂的激情，优雅的气质，逼人的身材和火辣的舞蹈，一边提着裤子，防止被因肥大掉裆的裤脚绊倒，一边手拉着上衣胸口，防止丰硕的乳房跳出。藕手忙脚乱，绕台一周，仓皇下场，但是，藕的胸还是不争气的频频走光。
藕下场后，委屈的大哭，大家看到的不是真正的藕，藕不想露点，而且藕完全可以更好的展示自己。藕压抑着在眼眶打转的眼泪，不能落下，因为马上还要集体上场走台，不能弄花了妆，让大家看不到芙蓉坚强美丽的一面。但是，藕真的很委屈：
这次走光真的不是藕的本意，真的不是！！！！
ubiquitous
07-11-07, 00:40
人鱼要是长芙蓉这样~~~我对这个世界的所有美好憧憬就全幻灭了~~~~:34:
人鱼要是长芙蓉这样~~~我对这个世界的所有美好憧憬就全幻灭了~~~~:34:
进这个dizhi 看看，够再让你幻灭一次的~~
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=9IGXF68O
ubiquitous
07-11-07, 01:32
进这个dizhi 看看，够再让你幻灭一次的~~
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=9IGXF68O
我告你意图谋杀一点都不过分吧:19:
贴一张漂亮的人鱼！！
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Waterhouse_a_mermaid.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Waterhouse_a_mermaid.jpg
我想贴啊。。。 可是现在没办法上传照片。。。
期待中～～
那两个日本人鱼是假的。
Feejee Mermaid
Type: Hoax.
Summary: Crowds in nineteenth-century America flocked to see what was advertised to be a real mermaid.
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Advertisement for the Feejee Mermaid from the Charleston Courier, January 1843 Mid-July, 1842. An English gentleman named “Dr. J. Griffin”, a member of the British Lyceum of Natural History, arrived in New York City bearing a remarkable curiosity — a real mermaid supposedly caught near the Feejee Islands in the South Pacific. The press were expecting him, since throughout the Summer they had been receiving letters from Southern correspondents describing the doctor and his mermaid. So when he checked in to his hotel, reporters were waiting for him, demanding to see the mermaid. Grudgingly he obliged. What they saw totally convinced them of the creature’s authenticity.
Soon after this, the showman P.T. Barnum visited the offices of the major papers where he explained that he had been trying to convince Dr. Griffin to display the mermaid at his museum. Unfortunately, the doctor was unwilling to do so. So Barnum volunteered to give the papers use of a woodcut of a beautiful, bare-breasted mermaid that he had prepared, since it was now useless to him. The papers (each thinking they had an exclusive) happily accepted the offer, and on Sunday, July 17, mermaid woodcuts appeared in all the papers. Simultaneously, Barnum distributed ten thousand copies of a pamphlet about mermaids throughout the city. The mermaids in the pamphlet were also represented as seductive ocean maidens.
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Mermaids, as depicted in Barnum’s pamphletWith all this publicity, anticipation to see the Feejee Mermaid (as it was now being called) became enormous. (Note: it’s also often spelled Fiji or Fejee.) It was the main topic of conversation throughout the city. Everyone was talking about whether it was a real mermaid. They had to see it for themselves. So Dr. Griffin agreed to exhibit it for a week at Concert Hall on Broadway.
Huge crowds showed up for the exhibit. Dr. Griffin lectured for these crowds about his experiences as an explorer and described his theories of natural history. These theories were a bit peculiar. For instance, his main argument was that mermaids must be real since all things on land have their counterpart in the ocean — sea-horses, sea-lions, sea-dogs, etc. So therefore, we should assume there are also sea-humans! Meanwhile, the press continued to lavish attention on the mermaid, with rave reviews appearing in papers, such as this from the New York Sun:
“We’ve seen it! What? Why that Mermaid! The mischief you have! Where? What is it? It’s twin sister to the deucedest looking thing imaginable—half fish, half flesh; and ‘taken by and large,’ the most odd of all oddities earth or sea has ever produced.” (The New York Sun, August 5, 1842.)
After the week-long engagement at Concert Hall, Dr. Griffin agreed to allow the mermaid to stay longer in New York City. So it was moved to Barnum’s American Museum, where it was exhibited for a month “without extra charge.” Ticket receipts at the museum promptly tripled.
The Hoax
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The Feejee Mermaid, as depicted in Barnum’s autobiography Throughout all this, the deception of the public had been three-fold. First, although advertisements had shown the mermaid to have the body of a young, beautiful woman, the creature itself was far less attractive. It had the withered body of a monkey and the dried tail of a fish. As a correspondent from the Charleston Courier put it: “Of one allusion… the sight of the wonder has forever robbed us — we shall never again discourse, even in poesy, of mermaid beauty, nor woo a mermaid even in our dreams — for the Feejee lady is the very incarnation of ugliness.” In his autobiography, Barnum later described the mermaid as “an ugly, dried-up, black-looking, and diminutive specimen… its arms thrown up, giving it the appearance of having died in great agony.”
Second, Dr. Griffin was a fraud. He was no English gentleman. In fact, there was no such thing as the British Lyceum of Natural History. Griffin’s real name was Levi Lyman, and he was Barnum’s accomplice-in-deception. The mermaid’s introduction and exhibit had been the brainchild of Barnum all along. Barnum had arranged for letters about Dr. Griffin to be sent to New York papers throughout the Summer, and had then carefully orchestrated the mermaid publicity once Dr. Griffin (Lyman) “arrived” in New York. This had all been done to give the mermaid a veneer of scientific respectability.
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Museum-goers examine the Feejee Mermaid. Illustration from Barnum’s Autobiography. Finally, the mermaid itself was a fake, and Barnum knew it. He had leased the mermaid from Boston showman Moses Kimball (who, in turn, had bought it from a seaman), but before doing so Barnum had consulted a naturalist to inquire about the mermaid’s authenticity. The naturalist had assured him it was quite fake. Nevertheless, Barnum realized that it wasn’t important whether or not the mermaid was real. All that was important was that the public be led to believe that it might be real. So he hired a phony naturalist (Dr. Griffin) to vouch for the creature’s authenticity, placed pictures of bare-breasted mermaids in the newspapers, and thereby manipulated the public into wanting to see it. As Barnum’s biographer A.H. Saxon puts it, the Feejee Mermaid was a classic example of Barnum’s ability to “take a mildly interesting object that had been around for some time and to puff it almost overnight into an earthshaking ‘event.’”
Where Did the Feejee Mermaid Come From?
Barnum himself didn’t create the Feejee Mermaid. As noted, he merely leased it from Moses Kimball. In fact, the creature had already enjoyed quite a colorful history before Barnum transformed it into a celebrity.
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An 1822 illustration of Captain Eades’s mermaidThe Feejee Mermaid was an example of a traditional art form perfected by fishermen in Japan and the East Indies who constructed faux mermaids by stitching the upper bodies of apes onto the bodies of fish. They often created these mermaids for use in religious ceremonies. The Feejee Mermaid herself is believed to have been created around 1810 by a Japanese fisherman. It was bought by Dutch merchants who then, in 1822, resold it to an American sea captain, Samuel Barrett Eades, for $6000 (at the time, a huge amount of money). Eades had to sell his ship in order to afford the mermaid, but he hoped to make a fortune by exhibiting it in London. (Unfortunately for him, he didn’t own the entire ship, and this later proved to be a problem for him.)
By September, 1822 Eades had made it back to London with the mermaid, and it did prove to be a popular attraction. But it never made a fortune for him. Eades wasn’t as good a showman as Barnum would later be. In addition, British naturalists who had a chance to examine the mermaid soon debunked it in the press, dampening the public’s interest in it. Then Eades was sued by the other owner of the ship. The courts ordered Eades to pay back the money he had embezzled by serving the shipowner without pay until he repaid his debt. Eades sailed the seas for the next twenty years, trying to repay the debt. But he never did. When he died, ownership of the mermaid passed to his son, who promptly sold it to Moses Kimball for a fraction of what his father had bought it for.
What Happened to the Feejee Mermaid?
After Barnum had exhibited the mermaid for a month at his Museum, he decided to send it on a tour of the Southern states. He entrusted his uncle, Alanson Taylor, with this responsibility. Barnum anticipated an uneventful tour, but this was not to be. When Taylor and the mermaid arrived in South Carolina, they found themselves embroiled in a bitter feud between two rival newspapers, the Charleston Courier and the Charleston Mercury, with the mermaid as the focus of the dispute.
The problem began when Richard Yeadon, editor of the Courier, wrote a review of the mermaid in which he declared his belief that she was real. Simultaneously, a local amateur naturalist, the Rev. John Bachman, published a review in the Mercury in which he blasted the mermaid as a crude humbug created by “our Yankee neighbors.” This difference of opinion quickly escalated into a bitter argument. (So bitter that, if not for the intervention of “mutual friends,” it might have ended in a duel.) This dispute brought an early end to the Southern tour, and the Feejee Mermaid had to be secretly shipped back to New York.
For the next twenty years the Feejee Mermaid split her time between Kimball’s museum in Boston and Barnum’s museum in New York. Her biggest adventure occurred in 1859, when Barnum took her with him on a tour of London. When Barnum returned from London in June, 1859, he brought her back to Kimball’s museum. This would prove to be the last place we know that she was. After this, her whereabouts are unknown.
According to one theory, she was destroyed when Barnum’s museum burned down in 1865. But this is unlikely, since she should have been at Kimball’s Boston museum at that time. More likely, she perished when Kimball’s museum burned down in the early 1880s.
Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology does possess a mermaid that some have speculated might be the original Feejee Mermaid. According to their records, this mermaid was saved from the fire that consumed Kimball’s museum and was later donated to Harvard by Kimball’s heirs. The problem is that the Peabody’s mermaid doesn’t look anything like what we would expect the Feejee Mermaid to look like. It’s much smaller and far less skillfully crafted. So the real Feejee Mermaid probably met her end in the 1880s.
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The Peabody Museum’s “Feejee Mermaid” (photographed in 1998) But although the Feejee Mermaid is gone, her memory lives on in popular culture. “Feejee Mermaid” has become the generic term for the many fake mermaids that can be found around the world in sideshows, behind bars, or at the back of curiosity shops. (For San Diego residents, one can be seen up in Leucadia.) The Feejee Mermaid herself also made an appearance in an episode of the X-Files ("Humbug," Season 2, Episode 20).
References
Barnum, P.T. The Life of P.T. Barnum Written By Himself. Redfield. 1855.
Bondeson, Jan. The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History. Cornell University Press. 1999.
Greenberg, Kenneth S. . Honor & Slavery. Princeton University Press. 1996. (See Chapter One: “The Nose, the Lie, and the Duel")
Harris, Neil. Humbug: The Art of P.T. Barnum. University of Chicago Press. 1973. (See Chapter Three)
Saxon, A.H. P.T. Barnum: The Legend and the Man. Columbia University Press. 1989. (See Chapter 6, “Of Mermaids and the Man in Miniature")
ubiquitous
07-11-07, 13:06
就是好奇~人鱼和河童是不是同一种生物~
如果真是一种生物那么一个是外国的一个是中国土产的，呵呵:14:
啊？！为什么我刚才没看到这张照片？！
还以为你是要求别人贴张美人鱼呢。。。><
漂亮！
啊？！为什么我刚才没看到这张照片？！
还以为你是要求别人贴张美人鱼呢。。。><
漂亮！
第一次没贴好……
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Leighton-The_Fisherman_and_the_Syren-c._1856-1858.jpg
还是童话的人鱼美丽点，值得幻想
其他的，，，好象打了折扣
最后哪个芙蓉，实在不敢恭维:36:
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