"The Long, Strange Legacy of One of the World’s Earliest" Topic
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Tango01 | 06 Jun 2020 1:01 p.m. PST |
…Fake Mermaids "ONE OF THE EARLIEST REFERENCES to a Jenny Haniver dates to the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner's Historia Animalium, from the 1550s. In a shop, Gessner had spotted a gruesome bit of creative taxidermy made from the remains of an aquatic ray, probably the work of a sailor hoping to pass it off as some kind of mythical sea creature. Gessner wasn't fooled, but he did warn that "ordinary people are very much impressed with these things." Sometimes also called "devil fish," Jenny Hanivers are shore-town oddities that hucksters have been billing as mummified dragons, mermaids, or other outlandish creatures since at least the 16th century. They predate the similarly hokey Fiji mermaids popularized by P.T. Barnum by hundreds of years…"
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bsrlee | 06 Jun 2020 3:18 p.m. PST |
Also known as 'Melusines', made from a monkey torso and a large fish. |
Legion 4 | 07 Jun 2020 8:03 a.m. PST |
"A sucker is born every minute !" … |
Tango01 | 08 Jun 2020 3:12 p.m. PST |
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