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About the Hoaxipedia ... Museum of Hoaxes > Hoaxipedia Home > Feejee Mermaid ... Article Feejee Mermaid...
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A reference guide to hoaxes, pranks, practical jokes, frauds, tricks, and other forms of deception. ... With all this publicity, anticipation to see the Feejee Mermaid (as it was now being called) became enormous. (Note: it's also often spelled Fiji or Fejee.) It was the main topic of conversation throughout the city.
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These creatures are the sisters and brothers of Barnum's Mermaid, some crawling from the banks of a lagoon, others laid out like wizened specimens in a laboratory. They seethe with life, they call to us with shrill tongues and crooked fingers, they beg to drag us down into the abyss.
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The Art of Juan Cabana ... Please visit the galleries ... Home Aquatic 1 Aquatic 2 Aquatic 3 For Sale Publicity...
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Don't know what this is? See the Feejee Mermaid resources. ... 1850 newspaper ad for Feejee Mermaid ... "Feejee Mermaid" from the New York Sunday Herald...
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I saw my first FeeJee Mermaid when I was in college. She was working at a sleazy sea side freak show in North Carolina. I had heard rumors she was merely a dried orangutan skull and torso cleverly sewed onto the tail bones of a large fish.
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Now appears in: Monsters of the Sea by Richard Ellis (Also discussed in The Feejee Mermaid by Jan Bondeson); P.T. Barnum's skillful manipulation convinced thousands to see his "Feejee Mermaid." It was displayed for "positively one week only!" at a concert hall on Broadway.
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The Merman (AKA Feejee Mermaid, Fiji Mermaid), veteran of sideshow tent and county fair midway, has seen it all. If you can't trust his sense of a good attraction, then who can you trust? ... P.T. Barnum purchased his first merman in 1842 and put it on exhibit as the "Feejee Mermaid." It was an immediate sensation.
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FeJee Mermaid; The FeJee Mermaid--now part of the collection of the Peabody ; Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Exhibit: FeeJee Mermaid. Museum Room: Picture Gallery. Document Type: Image.
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