Download Mermaids

By: Morgan Young
Room: 6- 100
Facts About Mermaids
 A mermaid has a human head, and arms with a tail of
a fish
 Most mermaids have long waist length hair and crystal
clear eyes
 Some mermaids wear a bikini top like shells or they
wear nothing
Facts about Mermaids
 Mermaids live in the ocean
 Some live in seas
 Most mermaids live at an island called Mystic Springs
Facts About Mermaids
 There is a small civilization called Oceanus
 There are some mermaids in BC
Stories About Mermaids
 The god known as Neptune is often depicted as a
merman
 Irish say that they are old women transformed to a
mermaid shape and banished by St.Patrick
 Folk tales say that mermaids are the Pharaoh's
children they drowned in the Red Sea
Sightings of Mermaids
 Claimed sightings of dead or living mermaids have
came from places as British Columbia
 Canadian sightings in the area of Vancouver and
Victoria
 Also mermaid stories appeared in Assyia
Mermaid Hoaxes
 Some type of hoaxes are people wearing costumes
 An other type of hoax is clay sculptures of mermaids
What They Do
 Some people claim mermaids can teach humans cures
for disease
 The mystery of mermaids was started in 1895
My Opinion
 My opinion is that mermaids do exist
 Why because there has been a lot of sightings
 People believe that when the lost city of Atlantis sank
people evolved into mermaids