Mermaid Monday: Brewster Mermaid May 7, 2018
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern , trackback
Some crappy days in London now, sigh. Here in any case, while I’m away, is an American mermaid case that washed up in an Irish newspaper in 1873. The original sources was supposedly the Provincetown Advertiser. We are at Brewster in Massachusetts.
A supposed mermaid was seen upon the beach at Brewster last Thursday by Mrs. Young and several children. The head of this object, or mermaid, resembled exactly that of a child, while the rest of the body was of fish form. When first seen, the lady became frightened, but the children Iess timid, approached it, and, wishing to determine whether it was dead or alive, threw some sand in its eyes, whereupon it uttered cries like that of a child, and commenced rolling over and over down to the water, and darted off into the sea, keeping the head above the surface, and resembling in every manner that of a child swimming. How this creature came here is yet a mystery, but it is thought it was left here by the tide, or rolled upon the shore in the night of its own accord’, (Anon 1873).
Any other New England mermaids: there must be loads… drbeachcombing AT gmail DOT com
