If we give credit to certain traditions, progress was limited to this. Developed amphibians, resembling the human form, transformed into half-men habríanse in seamen, mermen or mermaids. Only, unlike the melodious siren of the fable, they had remained silent, unable to become a language, to understand the man and move him to compassion. Talas races have disappeared, it is said, just as we see the unfortunate beaver away but can not talk, crying.

It has been said all too strange lightness that those figures were not anything other than seals. But it can it be cheating? All species of seals are known since long ago. In the seventh century, during the life of St. Columba, and fished and ate his flesh.

The men and women at sea which reference is made in the sixteenth century, were seen not only fast in the middle of the liquid element, but brought them to the ground, they walked around it, and lived in major population centers such as Antwerp and Amsterdam, in the palace of Charles V and Philip II, and therefore came under the gaze of Vesale and the first scholars of that era. Mention is made of a woman who lived long years marina in religious habit in a convent where all was given to her. He did not speak, but was busy spinning and other chores. However, the water attracted and used all his intelligence to return to his beloved element.

Diráse: If these creatures really existed, why were so rare? Oh! The answer is at hand. They were rare because it was customary to kill them.

You had to let sin life, “as they were ranked among the monsters.” So says the old stories.