Caithness Mermaid Mystery 2: More Mermaids October 23, 2011
Author: Beach Combing | in : ModernMermaid posts. It has been a while… This one should be read together with another nineteenth-century Caithness sighting. It cannot be a coincidence that two letters were sent at the same time relating to the same village. Presumably the publicity given to Miss Mackay in late May for her sighting, encouraged or emboldened William Munro, […]
Caithness Mermaid Mystery 1: Mermaid Sighting July 30, 2011
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Beachcombing is not, to his regret, a mermaid expert: despite occasional forays into Triton’s territory in previous posts. But he suspects that the following is not a particularly well-known mermaid source. It dates to 1809 and was sent by one Ms Mackay, the daughter of a minister no less, and was sent to the Countess […]
