MERMAIDS !!! DO THEY EXIST ?????

Hi amigos,
   Me back with a uncovered fact again!!! does mythical mermaids exist ??? i always had this doubt from childhood ever since i read little mermaid story i always had this question ....do they exist ????
   Do you know people talk about mermaids from past 1000BC and have been writing about them from then!!!!

  'sirena' in Greek mythology was similar to mermaids...And a popular story that  Alexander the great's sister Tessalonika  into a mermaid after she died... She lived, it was said, in the Aegean sea and when she encountered a ship, she asked its sailors only one question: "Is King Alexander alive?".. to which the correct answer was: "He lives and reigns and conquers the world"..This answer pleased her so she calmed the waters and wish the ship farewell. Any other answer would spur her into a rage. She would raise a terrible storm, with certain doom for the ship and every sailor on board.... well interesting story but how far is it true???

According to some...
Mermaids were noted in British folklore as unlucky omens – both foretelling disaster and provoking it.Several variants of the ballad Sir Patrick spens depict a mermaid speaking to the doomed ships; in some, she tells them they will never see land again, and in others, she claims they are near shore, which they are wise enough to know means the same thing. They can also be a sign of rough weather.Some mermaids were described as monstrous in size, up to 2,000 feet (610 m).On occasion, mermaids could be more beneficent, teaching humans cures for disease...Mermen were noted as wilder and uglier than mermaids, but they were described as having little interest in humans..
Mermaids could also swim up in rivers or fresh waters... One day, in a lake near his house, the Laird of Lorntie went to aid a woman he thought drowning; a servant of his pulled him back, warning that it was a mermaid, and the mermaid screamed after that she would have killed him if it were not for his servant.

Mermen were noted as wilder and uglier than mermaids, but they were described as having little interest in humans.


well whatever it may be these stories are always interesting to read!!! well all are questions without answers but yet they indicating us some thing!!!!! well i know we will surely find that out!!!