A mysterious Japanese 'mermaid' mummy thought to cure COVID is actually a grotesque, centuries-old talisman made of pufferfish skin and animal hair, researchers find
Pufferfish skin, hair from unidentified mammals, and the fins and bones of several sea creatures: the origin of a 300-year-old"mermaid" mummy, thought by priests of Japan's Enjuin temple to have healing powers, has been revealed by researchers at long last.
"The teeth are all conical and the tips are slightly curved backwards . The jaw of a carnivorous fish of unknown species," researchers wrote in areleased this month about the mermaid, the body of which is painted with sand or charcoal powder."Both arms with five fingers and flat claws. The lower body has dorsal fins, anal fins, anal fins, and caudal fins, and is covered with scales.
The exact creation date of the mummy remains unknown, though it has been stored for decades in a box with a memo indicating it was caught in a fishing net off the coast of Kochi during the Genbun era, which spanned from 1736 to 1740.that the mermaid was supposed to have been brought to Osaka by a fisherman and sold, and was purchased by an ancestor of Mr.
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