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Hello? Hello and welcome to Stories of Scotland, an award-winning podcast about heritage and nature.

I'm Jenny.

And I'm Annie.

In this glorious warm spring afternoon, we're bringing you old Scottish folklore on mermaid. Yeah.

And this is one of my favourite episodes that we've researched, because the archives that we've unraveled feel like traversing through fairy tales. Or more like swimming through, or actually

sailing through fairy tales, as so much of this episode is based on old sailor folklore.

Indeed, and that folklore has seeped into every corner of Scotland. So Jenny, when you were

Bonnie Weillassie, did you believe in mermaids? I actually, I did, yes, completely and utterly. My

family has always been quite open to the idea of the

other worlds, I guess, so we had lots of strange and mystical books floating around the house,

and I loved these. Although, looking back, I don't think I was too good at distinguishing

between what was fact and what was fiction. I remember one specific book that had all these photographs of real-life mermaids in it.

Only these are more like, well, if you think of a regular mermaid as a grape,

these mermaid specimens were like raisins?

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