Posted on 04/05/2017 7:23:56 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. -- A woman was found near Table Mountain, California on Tuesday morning, and she doesn’t seem to know who she is, the Fresno Police Department said.
“She was wet, she said she had been in the lake, said she needed help and needed to be taken to the hospital,” said Fresno Police.
The woman was found about 3:15 a.m. walking in the middle of the street.
When she was found, her hair was wet, and she was mostly naked. She told officers she had been in the water.
She answers, “I don’t know” to most questions, police said. She has claimed to be a mermaid named “Joanna.”
“We did go through records after fingerprinting her and we still did not come up with her identity,” said Hudson.
She is 5-foot-4, weighs 150 pounds and has webbed feet.
“There are some strange things that happen up here,” said neighbor Karon Renwick. “We’re in the mountains.”
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At least it wasn’t a bowl of petunias ;)
A fresh water mermaid is a Naiad.
I have read of naiads but never that they were mermaids.
Do I need a /s?
In Greece Oceanids were what you would think of as a traditional mermaid in salt water. Naiads were freshwater. A Limnad was a naiad who lived in a lake. In all cases they were bound to their environment but could leave and assume human form for a shot time.
In Russia they are Rusalkas.
In France they Melusine.
Mermaids are pretty popular in legends from all around the world.
If she self identities as a mermaid who are we to say she isn’t.
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