Who invented the Mermaids?

Answer 1

The stories about mermaids comes from the ancient Celts and they were not called mermaids but silkies. The myth goes that the silkies ( really a seal) comes ashore one night a year under a full moon and sheds their skins. If a human finds the skin and keeps it the silkies can not return to the sea but stays human. There is one story about a man who fell in love with a silkies and when she came ashore he took her skin, hid it, and married her. They were married many years and had several children when she looked under the bed to find a wooden box. Inside the box was her skin so she put it on and went back to the sea. Every so often she watches her "husband" and children on shore and sheds a tear.

Answer 2

The first known mermaid stories appeared in Assyria, ca. 1000 BC.

Answer 3

In Greek and Celtic legends that are thousands of years old.

Answer 4

king romand

Oceanus - of course he wasn't a maid but a dude.

Answer 5

Its just a myth. Now who knows who created myths.

Answer 6

'''Celtic storytellers. Mermaids are not real and only come from legends and stories.'''

Answer 7

The Phoenicians. Their principle God was Dagon a half-man half-fish.

Answer 8

Celtic storytellers thousands of years ago created stories of mermaids and they have come to us through these stories and legends.