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	feejee mermaid : lasting hoax - envasion.net
		the feejee mermaid was introduced to the world in august of 1842 when an englishman named dr. j.
		barnum purchased the "american museum" where the feejee mermaid was moved to and exihibited, becoming the number one attraction in america over the next twenty years.
		the mermaid was supposed to have burned in a museum fire in 1864 and the barnum museum created an artist's rendition and now displays the replica.
	www.envasion.net /2002/feejee.html (401 words)

	Mermaid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A mermaid (from mere in the obsolete sense 'sea' + maid(en)) is a legendary aquatic creature with the head and torso of human female and the tail of a fish.
		Sirenomelia, also called "mermaid syndrome", is a rare congenital disorder in which a child is born with his or her legs fused together and the genitalia reduced.
		In heraldry, the charge of a mermaid is commonly represented with a comb and a mirror, and blazoned as a 'mermaid in her vanity.' Merfolk were used to symbolize eloquence in speech.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mermaid (2028 words)

	Mermaid - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A mermaid is a legendary creature with a female human head and torso (if it's male, it's called a merman) and the tail of a fish, which inhabits the water.
		In heraldry, the charge of a mermaid is commonly represented with a comb and a mirror, and blazoned as a 'mermaid in her vanity.'
		The first time a mermaid was envisioned within her own culture was apparently the one in The Little Mermaid of Hans Christian Andersen, which was embodied in a bronze sculpture in Copenhagen harbor and much later was turned into a Disney movie of the same name.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Mermaid (1080 words)

	Fiji mermaid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A common feature of sideshows, a Fiji mermaid (also Feejee mermaid) is a mummified body of something, supposedly a creature that was half mammal and half fish (like a grotesque version of normal mermaid stories).
		In Barnum's exhibit, the mermaid was allegedly caught in 1842 by a "Dr. J.
		In reality, the mermaid was either the work of an Indonesian craftsman using papier-mâché and materials from exotic fish, or the tail of a fish and a torso of a baby orangutan, stitched together with the head of a monkey.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fiji_mermaid (277 words)

	Feejee Mermaid: Comments
		I'm not at all surprised to hear that the Feejee Mermaid may or may not be "the original"-- and it certainly raises some entertaining questions.
		I was struck by your remark about the Feejee Mermaid, to the effect that the one in the Peabody is not the original.
		The caption to the Feejee Mermaid photo in Rosalind Purcell's "Special Cases" very strongly implies that it is the original.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /comments/feejee.html (453 words)

	da Havfrue A mermaid is a legendary creature legendary...
		In heraldry heraldry, the charge of a mermaid is commonly represented with a comb and a mirror, and blazoned as a 'mermaid in her vanity.' In the 19th century, P.
		Mermaids and Mermen (called Merpeople) are present in the Harry Potter Harry Potter series, specifically in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire".
		Mermaid of Ustka Ustka The mermaid patron of a Polish coastal town faces plastic surgery after councilors decided her breasts were too small and hips too wide, a city official said on March 29, 2004.
	www.biodatabase.de /Mermaid (651 words)

	Mermaid Paintings -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In heraldry, the charge of a mermaid is commonly represented with a comb and a mirror, and blazoned as a 'mermaid in her vanity.' In the 19th century, P. Barnum displayed in his museum a taxidermy hoax that was represented as the ''Feejee (''sic'') Mermaid.'' Sirens in folklore are similar creatures to mermaids.
		The Little Mermaid spends her days longing for the prince, and longing to have a soul and eternal afterlife like humans do, instead of turning to foam when she dies.
		Mermaid Man's foes include Man Ray (who is an anthropomorphic manta ray, not famous photographer Man Ray), The Dirty Bubble, and the retired Atomic Flounder.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/97/mermaid-paintings.html (1380 words)

	EMPIRE MUSEUM ODDITIES - FEEJEE MERMAID
		For years experts believed that the "mermaids" were made by sewing together the head of a monkey and the tail of a fish.
		According to Fulton's records, the mermaid's teeth, fingernails, and fins, are nothing more than the jaws and teeth, spines, and fins of a carp and a porgy-like fish, "placed liberally." "The mermaids were hoaxes," says Watson.
		According to his autobiography, Barnum borrowed the "Feejee Mermaid" from Kimball for display at his American Museum and the tour of 1842 and returned it in 1856.
	www.empiremuseum.com /feejee.htm (1017 words)

	Mermaid
		The Babylonian god of the waters called Oannes was often portrayed as a man with a fish's tail, and a Syrian moon deity known as Atargatis, filled with shame after bearing a daughter by a young man, cast herself into a lake, whereupon her lower half turned into a fish's tail.
		Images of mermaids, and myths about them, abound in the art and literature of the world (there are carvings of them in many medieval cathedrals) — but of particular interest are the various encounters with these creatures that have been reported throughout history.
		The topics, ranging from the myth and history of mermaids (which we now know as manatees and dugongs) to the strange blobs that have washed up on several beaches in the past century, to the giant squid which Ellis would go on to write an entire book about, are fascinating.
	www.occultopedia.com /m/mermaid.htm (3506 words)

	Antique Feejee Mermaids
		In 1403, a mermaid was reportedly stranded by falling floodwaters outside of Eton, Holland, and discovered by a group of women and their servants.
		A miniature mermaid was spotted off the shores of the Hebrides in 1830; she was struck with a rock and killed, but buried by the townsfolk, all of whom swore the validity of their marvellous tale.
		While many copies exist, the original FeeJee Mermaid was probably lost when Barnum's museum was destroyed by fire during the 1860's, but a replica of the Mermaid exists at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at the University of Harvard.
	www.thefeejeemermaid.com /gallery4.htm (526 words)

	feejee
		A "Feejee Mermaid" was found in a locked Francis Hall storage space by Bro.
		While she resides in the first floor atrium of the Quick Center now, the mermaid is reported to have ended up at Saint Bonaventure in the 1950's, coming as a donation from the estate of architect Stanford White.
		Barnum's mermaid was brought to London in 1822 by American sea captain, Samuel Barrett Eades.
	web.sbu.edu /friedsam/archives/studentpages/ghost/feejee.htm (456 words)

	Karl Woolf's "The Feejee Mermaid: The Milwaukee Taxidermied Treasure & Others"
		Because the “Japanese Mermaid” is a taxidermy hybrid— a combination of fish and papier-mâché—; it presents a series of challenges in a number of areas, including: cataloging, conservation, and collections.
		According to Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, the mermaid was a “fabulous sea marine creature, half-woman and half-fish, allied to the SIREN of classical mythology, [that] probably arose from sailor’s accounts of the dugong”.
		A live mermaid was exhibited in the market of St. Germains as late as 1759, while two tritons were caught off the Isle of Man in 1800, and well-publicized mermaid sightings were reported in 1809 and 1812.
	www.showhistory.com /Feegee.Wolff.html (1642 words)

	The Feejee Mermaid
		Mermaids exist in the twilight place between land and sea, in the psychological intertidal zone between life-giver and life-taker.
		The paintings of the pre-Raphaelites portray mermaids as lovely maidens with a silvery aquatic tail, who comb their luxurious tresses in serene repose along a placid shore, but the mermaids of old were neither so innocent nor demure.
		Mermaids have captured our interest in the same way in which they snared the hearts of sailors, dizzying us and disorienting us, pulling us under the turquoise waves.
	www.thefeejeemermaid.com (441 words)

	Cliffie's Notes: The Mermaid Problem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		At the time this Mermaid sustained the skull fracture described in that book, these operatives were already beating a retreat – Newfoundland was about as close to the big city as a Mermaid ever got and this is what it got HER.
		I am not old enough to remember the terrible days when a Mermaid, trying only to do her job, had to worry about being gaffed and gutted for display in a museum, and later dismissed as a fake vaudeville attraction.
		The FeeJee Mermaid was a revolting parody of the retired Mermaid operative – it’s the top half of a dead monkey sewed to a Fish’s tail.
	walkingcatfish.blogspot.com /2006/04/mermaid-problem.html (1045 words)

	Book Review: Feejee Mermaid
		In The Feejee Mermaid, physician Jan Bondeson presents a collection of essays that aim to explore some of the most prominent examples of the supernatural in modern Western culture.
		The mermaids, circus elephants, magical lambs, and petrifying lizards that populate Bondeson's anthology were anything but secretive entities.
		Overall, The Feejee Mermaid will be likely prove more important to scholars for its presentation of previously under-explored material than for advancing or informing academic debate.
	www.esoteric.msu.edu /VolumeII/BondesonReview.html (603 words)

	THE FEEJEE MERMAID AND OTHER ESSAYS IN NATURAL AND UNNATURAL HISTORY
		This object became the foremost curiosity of London in the 1820s and later in the century toured the United States under the management of P. Barnum.
		Bearing a striking resemblance to a wizened and misshapen monkey with a fishtail, the mermaid was nonetheless proclaimed a genuine specimen by “experts.”
		"The Feejee Mermaid is an amiable collection of folly and scientific curiosities." --The Times of Acadiana.
	www.cornellpress.cornell.edu /cup_detail.taf?ti_id=115 (682 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Mermaid to Order
		Depictions of mermaids as gruesome, dimunitive creatures, and the use of parts of other animals (primarily monkeys and fish) to create exemplars of such creatures, are both very, very old, as demonstrated by a supposed mummified mermaid which was exhibited in Japan several centuries ago and is thought to be up to
		Although many such fabricated mermaids date from that era, the most famous example was the "Feejee Mermaid" (also known as the "Fiji Mermaid" or "FeJee "Mermaid"), a grotesque creature allegedly "taken [by Japanese fishermen] among the Fejee Islands, and preserved in China" before being purchased by one
		The "mermaid" was actually pieced together using papier-mâché;, fish parts, the body of an infant orangutan, and a monkey head.
	www.snopes.com /photos/tsunami/mermaid.asp (440 words)

	Dr. Wilson's Incredible Sideshow: Feejee Mermaid
		The mermaid is one of a few remaining specimens of this remarkable discovery, first brought to the West by travelers to the South Pacific early in the nineteenth century.
		P.T. Barnum acquired the Feejee Mermaid from a Dr. Griffin of the Lyceum of Natural History in London, who described it as nothing less than a veritable mermaid taken among the Feejee Islands (now Fiji) and preserved in China.
		The Feejee Mermaid was exhibited at Wilson and Dark's Traveling Carnival and Theater of Marvels at the Town Hill VIS Hall on October 29, 2005.
	www.memoryelixir.com /sideshow/mermaid.html (748 words)

	About Facts Net
		Once finished he put in on display in England and the U.S. To his surprise he was exposed in both countries as a fraud.
		The Feejee Mermaid was brought to America by Dr. J Griffin.
		The mermaid was really a monkey's body with a fishes tail.
	aboutfacts.net /Strange9.htm (859 words)

	Spring 2004 - The Halsey Gallery at the College of Charleston
		None of his specimens was more curious than the Feejee Mermaid – a spectacular hoax that netted Barnum incredible wealth, and secured his reputation as both showman and salesman.
		The Feejee Mermaid went on tour throughout the United States after just a few months in New York.
		Well, the FeeJee Mermaid is back in Charleston, along with a host of other assorted sideshow oddities.
	www.cofc.edu /halseygallery/exhibihitions/Spring05/04_alive/HTMLintro.html (469 words)

	Grin Fish: MERMAID FOUND AT MARINA BEACH AFTER TSUNAMI ? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Depictions of mermaids as gruesome, dimunitive creatures, and the use of parts of other animals (primarily monkeys and fish) to create exemplars of such creatures, are both very, very old, as demonstrated by a supposed mummified mermaid which was exhibited in Japan several centuries ago and is thought to be up to 1,400 years old.
		More recently (but still a considerable time ago) phony mermaid-like creatures crafted from various body parts and bones of fish and other animals, usually joined to dessicated monkey heads or skulls, were a common feature of 19th-century dime museums, carnivals, traveling circuses and their sideshows.
		Although many such fabricated mermaids date from that era, the most famous example was the "Feejee Mermaid" (also known as the "Fiji Mermaid" or "FeJee "Mermaid"), a grotesque creature allegedly "taken [by Japanese fishermen] among the Fejee Islands, and preserved in China" before being purchased by one Dr. J.
	www.getfishy.com /2006/02/mermaid-found-at-marina-beach-after.html (376 words)

	Feejee Mermaid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		I saw my first FeeJee Mermaid when I was in college.
		IF you click on the lock you will let the FeeJee Mermaid out of the tank and he will travel to STARBUCKS.
		When folks see the FeeJee mermaid in this animation enjoying a hot cup of Starbucks coffee I hope they get the desire to have a cup as well.
	www.darkartsmedia.com /FEEJEEMERMAID.html (199 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This is especially noticeable in the debate over the famous "feejee mermaid." Barnum would purposely hint at the possibility of fraud; what he called humbug.
		This is why he would sometimes represent the feejee mermaid in two different forms.
		Furthermore, the label that describes the feejee mermaid is filled with humbug.
	mason.gmu.edu /~ebrowng/barnum (610 words)

	PSYC339 - Links
		Featured in commercials and doing tank duty at boat and scuba shows, her fins and engaging smile are becoming quite well known.
		Out of the blue, they catch a mermaid who begs to be set free in return for granting each of them a wish.
		The second guy is so amazed he says to the mermaid: "Triple my I.Q." The mermaid says: "Done." The guy starts to spout out all the mathematical solutions to problems that have been stumping all the scientists of varying fields: physics, chemistry, etc.
	www.wellesley.edu /Psychology/Cheek/Narrative/links.html (327 words)

	The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History
		it also reconstructs a continuum, especially in the case of the mermaid, of how these artifacts and oddities have been used and why people are interested in them.
		The Feejee Mermaid of the title, half a monkey and half a salmon, had a long career in 19th century show business and beyond.
		A remarkable chapter deals with the criminal prosecution of animals for a variety of offenses, from the middle age onwards.
	www.textbooksrus.com /search/bookdetail?isbn=0801436095 (554 words)

	P. T. BARNUM, THE FEEJEE MERMAID AND THE MISSING LINK! (WITH PHOTOGRAPHS)
		The teeth and formation of the fingers and hands differed materially from those of any monkey or orang-outang (sic) ever discovered, while the location of the fins was different from those of any species of the fish tribe known to naturalists.
		The "Mermaid's" first tour began with Levi Lyman, Barnum's partner in deception, as the exhibitor.
		Barnum began displaying "What Is It?" I will show you a drawing of the Feejee Mermaid and photographs of "What Is It?" after this service, so you can see them for yourselves.
	www.rlhymersjr.com /Online_Sermons/04-06-03AM_PTBarnum.html (2625 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Others, like numerous mermaids, the basilisk (a reptilian-like creature reputedly so powerful that "all living creatures that met its gaze expired instantaneously"), lambs made of vegetables and geese growing on trees, were a good deal more fanciful or fully fabricated, even though they each had a wide following for centuries.
		From the elaborate education of performing pigs to the brisk enterprise of manufacturing mermaid remains for tourists, Bondeson (A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, LJ 10/15/97) illustrates the unusual in natural history with this collection of ten essays describing scientific hoaxes, misconceptions, and other assorted oddities of the natural world.
		He uses his up-to-date knowledge of science to demonstrate that the same long-lasting ideas about generation of living tiaaue can be found in Aristotle's writings and in modern theories about the origins of life.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0801436095 (804 words)

	FeJee Mermaid Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The "FeJee Mermaid" was originally brought to the American Museum in 1842 "at a most extraordinary expense" for the evaluation of a "discerning public." The patchwork creature was one of Barnum's most outlandish and popular hoaxes, appealing to Americans' fascination with puzzles and
		Jan Bondeson, "The Feejee Mermaid," in The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999).
		James W. Cook, "The Feejee Mermaid and the Market Revolution," in The Arts of Deception: Playing with Fraud in the Age of Barnum (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000).
	www.lostmuseum.cuny.edu /archives/mermaid.htm (192 words)

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