Are mermaids a thing in Somalia?

[Xoxoxo]

I noticed that most countries with coast lines or are islands have crazy stories about people living under water. My Caribbean friends used to tell me and scare the shit out off me with stories about La sirene/Mani wata (aka a mermaid). Our people have lived along the coast for thousands of years but I never heard about any mermaid stories in Somalia?

 

[Xoxoxo]

And yes I do believe in them because I witnessed a strange humanoid thing in the ocean when I had a school trip in Curaçao, after that I didn’t go out of my hotel room and stayed the f*ck inside until we went home. I never went to any ocean again

 

[Boqorada]

I remember when a burcad badeed filmed this video saying this was a washed up dead mermaid

 

[Sky Geeljire]

Somalis despite having the largest coast in mainline Africa avoid the Ocean and do not eat it's fisheries and enjoy it. Therefore apart from our coast guards (the pirates) we don't have a relationship with our waters at all which must change.

Naturally sea stories of mermaids and alike are non existent.

 

[Xoxoxo]

Somalis despite having the largest coast in mainline Africa avoid the Ocean and do not eat it's fisheries and enjoy it. Therefore apart from our coast guards (the pirates) we don't have a relationship with out waters at all which must change.

So no Somalia mermaid?

 

[Jiron]

Yes, it is well known mermaids exist in southern Somalia specially off the coast of kismayo. I wish I remember the Somali word for them

 

[Xoxoxo]

Yes, it is well known mermaids exist in southern Somalia specially off the coast of kismayo. I wish I remember the Somali word for them

Weird? I am from the south but never heard of any stories

 

[𐒁𐒚𐒒𐒂𐒘𐒂𐒗 𐒎𐒚𐒗𐒗𐒒]

Most of the sea is unexplored so who knows if they exist or not, nothing would surprise me at this point.

 

[Xoxoxo]

Most of the sea is unexplored so who knows if they exist or not, nothing would surprise me at this point.

It wouldn’t surprise me though? Many countries that lay on the Indian oceans have witnessed humanoid creatures in those oceans (Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique & Madagascar) so it wouldn’t also surprise me either but then again, these mermaids exist in countries where witchcraft is heavily practiced

 

[mr steal your naag]

I remember when a burcad badeed filmed this video saying this was a washed up dead mermaid

This nigga really put a wig on a doll and then put it on a tree and said this was a mermaid And then you have the chick in the background saying can we eat that

 

[Boqorada]

This nigga really put a wig on a doll and then put it on a tree and said this was a mermaid And then you have the chick in the background saying can we eat that

I'm such a chicken, I know it's a mannequin but I can never get myself to finish. I always freak out half way.

 

[one]

Yes, it is well known mermaids exist in southern Somalia specially off the coast of kismayo. I wish I remember the Somali word for them

Gabadhmaanyo or gabadh badeed. There are lots of stories about them up in the north as well.

Somalis usually associate them with jinns.

 

[Yahya]

Oral tradition. All our ancient stories and mythology is lost in time when a tribe of elders die of famine or perhaps get flooded etc....etc....etc

Only a foolish society fails to document it's history. Imagine how many stories and myths that our ancestors used to tell, that have now been washed away in the winds of time.

 

[Cerberus]

I noticed that most countries with coast lines or are islands have crazy stories about people living under water. My Caribbean friends used to tell me and scare the shit out off me with stories about La sirene/Mani wata (aka a mermaid). Our people have lived along the coast for thousands of years but I never heard about any mermaid stories in Somalia?

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where would its vagina be? how can a human have sex with it,

 

[Dima&Damo]

Somalis despite having the largest coast in mainline Africa avoid the Ocean and do not eat it's fisheries and enjoy it. Therefore apart from our coast guards (the pirates) we don't have a relationship with our waters at all which must change.

Naturally sea stories of mermaids and alike are non existent.

We Eat All Kinda Fish In Eyl It's Only Reer Magaal Who's Running With This Narrative

 

[Apollo]

Somalis despite having the largest coast in mainline Africa avoid the Ocean and do not eat it's fisheries and enjoy it. Therefore apart from our coast guards (the pirates) we don't have a relationship with our waters at all which must change.

Naturally sea stories of mermaids and alike are non existent.

Sanaag and Bari have a long standing seafaring and fishery culture.

It's mainly Somaliland, Mudug, and the South where they dislike fish, at least historically.