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Irish Folklore: Merrows or Mermaids and Mermen

Merrows

A merrow is a mermaid or merman. The Female merrow's top halves are human and their bottom halves are like the tails of fish. They are beautiful and have little duck-like scale between their fingers. Male merrow, on the other hand, are more like the "creature from the black lagoon". They have green teeth, green hair, pig's eyes, and red noses. Both genders possess a magical little hood, which gives them the power to live underwater. If they were ever to lose it, they would be exiled to land until they could find it again.

The fishermen do not like to see them, for it always means coming gales. Sometimes the mermaids prefer good-looking fishermen to their sea lovers. In the last century, there is said to have been a woman covered all over with scales like a fish, from a tryst between a mermaid and a fisherman. Sometimes they come out of the sea, and wander about the shore in the shape of little hornless cows. 

Irish Folklore: Tuatha Dé Danann Or Faries

Tuatha Dé Danann 

Tuatha Dé Danann or the People of Goddess Danu, were one of the great ancient tribes of Ireland. They inhabited Ireland before the arrival of the Milesians (the ancestors of the modern Irish). They are said to be the predecessors of Irish fairies and elves. 

They were led by King Nuada and when they came ashore they set fire to their ships to hide their arrival but also to stop themselves from having to retreat from Ireland. Smoke from these fires could be seen for miles and filled the sky for 3 days and 3 nights.

A poem in the Lebor Gabála Érenn says of their arrival:

It is God who suffered them, though He restrained them

they landed with horror, with lofty deed,
in their cloud of mighty combat of spectres,
upon a mountain of Conmaicne of Connacht.

Without distinction to descerning Ireland,
Without ships, a ruthless course
the truth was not known beneath the sky of stars,
whether they were of heaven or of earth.

They came from four mythical cities of islands in the north called Findias, Gorias, Murias, and Falias where they learned the skill of wisdom and magic. They brought four treasures to Ireland, Dagda’s Cauldron, the Spear of Lugh , the Stone of Fal, and the Sword of Light of Nuada.

Dagda’s Cauldron was said to be bottomless and supplied endless food and drink to whoever deserved it. It was said to have a ladle so big that two people could fit in it. The Spear of Lugh was a fiery lance or spear that never missed it's mark and protected the bearer from battle. The Sword of Light of Nuada, or shinning sword, no one ever escaped from it once it was drawn from its sheath. The Stone of Fal stone, speaking stone of Ireland, would cry out under kings of Ireland.

The Tuatha Dé Danann won the battle with the Fir Bolg. Out of respect for the manner in which they had fought, they allowed the Fir Bolg to remain in Connaught while the victors ruled the rest of Ireland.

King Nuada having lost an arm in battle, it was decreed that he could not rightly be king. Breas, a tribesman of Fomorian descent, was then made king. He turned out to be a tyrant and ruled for seven years until he was ousted by his people who had become disenchanted with hunger and dissent. Nuada returned as King with his replacement arm made from silver.

Breas raised an army of Fomorians battled with Nuada at Moytura in County Sligo. The Tuatha again prevailed and the power of the Fomorians was broken forever. Nuadha died in the battle, so hero of the conflict named Lugh was instated as the new King of Ireland.

The grandsons of the next King, Daghda, ruled during the invasion by the mighty Melesians. The Tuatha Dé Danann were defeated, but they were allowed to stay in Ireland but only underground. Not having nutrients from their goddess, they shrunk. They became the bearers of the fairies of Ireland.

Investigators Are Now Building A Case Against 9 Year Old Trinity Love Jones' Mom For Her Murder Along With The Mother's Boyfriend.

9 year old Trinity Love Jones' body was found partway in a duffel bag on March 5th, in an embankment near a hiking trail in Hacienda Heights in Los Angeles California. Her death was a homicide and are not ready to release the cause of death. The Coroner hypothesizes that she was killed on March 1st.

Trinity's mother's boyfriend and convicted child abuser, 38 year old Emiel Hunt, was arrested and is being charged with her murder.  His arraignment has been postponed until April 16th. 

Trinity's uncle, Jamiel said,

"Trinity was trapped with a monster. 

Nobody knew."

Now investigators are preparing a criminal case against Trinity's mother, Taquesta Graham. The specific nature of the charges that might be filed were not specified. She was extradited from Texas to Los Angeles on Thursday and is being held on an unrelated warrant. She was subsequently interviewed regarding her daughter's murder.

Investigators learned Hunt, Graham and Trinity were homeless just prior to her death and were residing in a Santa Fe Springs motel or in their vehicle.

Diana's Body Was Found On Tuesday, Now Police Her Looking Into The Death Of Her Husband's First Wife As Well.

38 year old nurse and mother of two, Diana Alejandra Keel went missing this last weekend. Her body was found on Tuesday along Pokes Hole Road, four miles outside Leggett and a 30-minute drive from her home on Old County Home Road in Nashville. Her husband, Lynn Keel, is a person of interest in her death. Authorities say that foul is definitely involved in her case. Authorities have responded to the Keel home in the past for domestic issues.

Investigators are now taking a second look at the death of Lynn Keel's first wife, Elizabeth Bess Edwards Keel, who died on January 1st, 2006 at the same home Keel lives in today.

She Survived Being Shot,Stabbed And Left For Dead, But Can't Remember Who Tried To Kill Her.

Evelyn Bunte was 18 years old when she was shot three times in the head and then stabbed in the neck. She survived, but she couldn't remember who did it due to brain damage she received from the attack. 

The attack happened before 1 a.m. on November 5th, 2016, in the 3600 block of Galvez Avenue, in Fort Worth, Texas.

After graduating from high school the previous year, Evelyn moved out of her dad's house in Chicago and to Fort Worth, to live with some friends. Her dad had a bad feeling about this and didn't want her to go, be he couldn't stop her.

With in a month of her arrival, Evelyn found a job doing the night shift at Wal-Mart as a greeter and soon fell in love with a 19 year old railroad worker, Dallas Eyerman. Evelyn and Dallas soon moved in together.

On the night of the attack, Dallas claims that he was at work while Evelyn was at home waiting for Dallas' mother to give her a ride to work. Dallas says his mother called him at about 10 p.m. and said that she went to the house and banged on the door. She said that the house was dark and there was no answer.  Dallas claims that he called and texted her and there was no answer, so he rushed home. He says that when he got home, he was relieved to find her sleeping on the couch. He tried to wake her up and that's when he noticed all the blood. He then called the police.

By the time Evelyn reached the hospital, everyone was in complete and utter shock that she was still alive. It turns out that she had been home for over 5 hours before Dallas arrived home. And not only was she shot in the head 3 times, she was stabbed in the neck,  strangled, as well beaten, before being left for dad. Once at the hospital, she had to go through extensive life-saving procedures where they had to do brain surgery, and even take out metal shrapnel from her mouth. She was going to also require major rehabilitation.

Evelyn’s father got a phone call saying that not only had his daughter been brutally attacked, but that she was in critical condition in John Peter Smith Hospital in Texas. He immediately made the trip from Chicago to Fort Worth. Before entering the room the doctors informed her dad that Evelyn had coaxial blindness and she was very, very weak and almost paralyzed on the right side of her body.

When Evelyn's dad entered the room he saw that she had a large black spot on her cheek where she had been shot. Her head was wrapped and bandaged. And her eyes were going in a couple different directions. He fell to his knees crying and that is when Evelyn called out and said,

"Dad, don’t cry. Don’t cry. I’m still here. I’m still here.”

The doctors told Evelyn's dad that anything more than 5 millimeters into the back of the head will kill you. Evelyn's wound in the back of her head was 7 millimeters deep, this proves that her surviving was a miracle.

Not only did Evelyn suffer from severe brain damage, the attack has also left her partially paralyzed and fractionally blind. While Evelyn was fighting for her life, authorities were trying to figure out who was behind the brutal attack on her life, and why they would want to kill her? Sadly, Evelyn lost many of her memories and claims that she couldn’t recall at the time who orchestrated the attack. Evelyn’s father believes that her boyfriend, Dallas, was behind it all. He believes that Dallas did it in a jealous rage, but police's repeated interrogations turned up nothing. Dallas requested and took a polygraph test, which he failed miserably. The detective told Evelyn's dad that in all the years that he had been working cases, he’d never seen anybody fail a polygraph as bad as Dallas failed.

Allegedly Dallas’s father made a statement that he felt that Evelyn was cheating on Dallas. And his cousin supposedly produced some emails that he had sent to a former girlfriend, and in these emails he said that if he ever found out she was cheating on him he would shoot her.

Dallas claims that he was being framed by someone named Jesse he owed money too.

What do you think?

Since the incident, Evelyn went through intense therapy, learning how to walk again and even regaining not only the use of her right side, but part of her eye sight as well. 

Now she is a 20 year old mortuary student and living her life to the fullest.

I can't find an update on if they ever found out who did this horrific crime to her, but one think i know for sure is, Evelyn is a strong, courageous woman. If she can over come something like what she has been through, she can conquer anything that she sets her mind to.

Freddie Oversteegen Was 14 Years Old When She Seduced And Murdered Nazis

Freddie Oversteegen and her sister Truus were engaged in a ferocious battle for their country's freedom. When Freddie was just 14 years old, her and her big sister left the family home to join the Dutch resistance against the Nazis. They set out with their friend Hannie Schaft, on a campaign of sabotage against the Nazi invaders. Together, they sabotaged bridges and railway lines with dynamite, smuggled Jewish children out of concentration camps and seduced Nazi occupiers then executed them with guns they kept hidden in their baskets. They also gunned down Nazis while ridding along on their bikes. Some of their targets were high-ranking Nazi officers.

In a interview Freddie said this about their heroic actions,

"We had to do it. 

It was a necessary evil, killing those who betrayed  the good people".

Even before the war the Oversteegen family were heroes. They lived on a barge and would hide people from Lithuania in the hold of their ship. When Freddie's parents divorced, the girls moved with their mother into an apartment. The family hid a Jewish couple in their home.

After the war Truus became a sculptor and a painter.  She married Piet Menger and had four children, one of whom she named after Hannie. Truus was regularly a guest speaker at universities and secondary schools about wars, anti-Semitism, tolerance and indifference. Her book about her experiences during the war, Not then, Not now, Not ever, was published in 1982. On May 10th, 1967, She was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations. At her 75th birthday in 1998, she was invested as an Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau for her services. She died in July 2016.

Freddie married Jan Dekker and went on to have three children.    She served as a board member on the National Hannie Schaft Foundation, which was established by her sister, Truus. In 2014, Freddie and Truus were awarded the Mobilization War Cross by Dutch Prime Minister for their acts of resistance during the war. A street named after her in Haarlem as well. Freddie was 92 years old when she passed away a day before her birthday, in a nursing home, on September 5th, 2018.

Hannie's real name was Jannetje Johanna Schaft. She was also known as "the girl with the red hair" and was on the Nazi's most wanted list. When one of her friends and fellow resistance workers was injured in a assassination effort, he mistakenly gave her name to Dutch Nazi nurses disguised as Resistance workers. German authorities arrested her parents and sent them to a concentration camp. Hannie ceased resistance work temporarily; her parents were eventually released. Hannie dyed her hair black to hide her identity and returned to Resistance work. She once again contributed to assassinations and sabotage, as well as courier work, and the transportation of illegal weapons and the dissemination of illegal newspapers. She was eventually arrested at a military checkpoint in Haarlem on March 21st, 1945, while distributing the illegal communist newspaper de Waarheid, which was a cover story. She was transporting secret documentation for the Resistance. After much interrogation, torture, and solitary confinement, Hannie was identified by the roots of her red hair by a former colleague. She was assassinated by Dutch Nazi officials on April 17th, 1945. Two men took her and one shot her at close range, only wounding her. She supposedly said to her executioners: 

"I shoot better than you," 

after which the other man delivered the fatal shot.
On November 27th, 1945, Hannie was reburied in a state funeral. Queen Whilhelmina called Hannie "the symbol of the Resistance."

Diana Keel Was And Lost Then Found, Now Her Husband Is One Of The Persons Of Interests In Her Death

Diana Alejandra Keel was 38 years old when she went missing this last weekend. She was an emergency room nurse and a mother of two. Her 18 year old daughter reported her missing on Saturday. Her car was found parked at her house in North Carolina. 

Lynn Keel, said he last saw his wife on Friday and that she left with friends. Now Lynn is a person of interest in the case. He was brought in for questioning after Diana's body was found on Tuesday. He hasn't been charged yet and police let him go home. Allegedly there are other persons of interest in the case, but their names haven't been released at this time.

Investigators executed search warrants on both of the Keels' cars.

Authorities say foul play is definitely involved.

Diana and Lynn also have a 10 year old son.

Now Authorities Are Looking Into The Death Of Lynn's First Wife

Update On Ted Bundy's Victim Debra Kent

17 year old Debra Kent went missing from her school parking lot during a high school play at Viewmont High School in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1974.

Before his execution in 1989, convicted serial killer Ted Bundy admitted to killing Debra. Apparently when police searched the location in Fairview Canyon, they found a human knee cap among hundreds of animal bones. That patella eventually was given to her family. 

Then in 2015, human remains were found in Fruit Heights, this lead investigators to review missing persons files. Two of the cold cases for the city were women who'd gone missing,one of them was Debra. They came across news reports of Debra's mother, Belva Kent, pulling out a box with a human patella bone, or kneecap, that had been found where Bundy said he left her remains. Investigators retrieved the knee cap from the family to use for DNA testing.  It matched the family's DNA. The authorities gave the bone back to the family along with Debra's death certificate.

Now with the Netflix film about Ted Bundy gaining so much popularity, police decided to release their revelation of this evidence to the public.

Henry Ford: Hard Working Man, Business Man, Inventor, Conspiracy Theorist And Anti-Semite.

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, 

not with it."

Henry Ford was born on July 30th, 1863, on a farm in Greenfield Township, Michigan to Mary and William Ford. He was the eldest son of his five siblings. 

When his mother died, when he was 13, he was completely devastated. His father owned a prosperous farm and expected Henry to take it over someday. Henry hated farm work.

Henry was educated at the local one-room school for eight years where he demonstrated an early interest in mechanical objects.

His father gave him a pocket watch in his early teens. At 15, Henry could disassemble and reassemble friends and neighbors watches, giving him the reputation of being a watch repairman.

He constructed his first steam engine in 1878.

Three years after his mom died, Henry left home to work in Detroit as a apprentice machinist. He returned home in 1882 to work on the family farm, where he became adept at operating the Westinghouse portable steam engine. He later worked frequently at Westinghouse to service their steam engines. Henry also studied bookkeeping at Goldsmith, Bryant & Stratton Business College in Detroit.

Henry married Clara Jane Bryant, who had grown up on a nearby farm, on April 11th, 1888. He supported them by farming and running a sawmill. 

They had one child together named Edsel Ford.

Henry returned to Detroit in 1891, taking a position as night engineer for the Edison Electric Illuminating Company. He was promoted to chief engineer in 1893, which gave him enough money and time to devote attention to his personal experiments on gasoline engines. 

This led to his invention of his "Quadricycle" in 1896. The quadricycle was comprised of a light metal buggy frame mounted on four bicycle wheels and was powered by a two-cylinder, four-horsepower gasoline engine. The fuel tank was under the seat and a tiller was used for steering. He sold his invention for $200 to finance future endeavours.

Also in 1896, Henry met Thomas Edison at a work meeting. He approved of Henry's automobile experimentation and encourage him to design and build a second vehicle, completing it in 1898.  Backed by the capital of Detroit lumber baron William H. Murphy, Henry resigned from the Edison Company and founded the Detroit Automobile Company on August 5, 1899 with  Edison. The company was dissolved in January 1901 because the automobiles that were produced were of a lower quality and higher price than Ford wanted and ultimately, the company was not successful.

Did you know that Henry had Edison's last breath saved in a test tube and you can still see the test tube at the Henry Ford Museum.

In October 1901 and with the help of C. Harold Wills, Henry designed, built, and successfully raced a 26-horsepower automobile. 

The Henry Ford Company started in November 1901 with Henry as the chief engineer. He left the company after three months and after he was gone the company was renamed the Cadillac Automobile Company.

In 1902, Henry partnered up with with former racing cyclist Tom Cooper, and produced the 80+ horsepower racer "999". It was driven to victory in a race in October of that year.

Did you know that Henry was one of the early backers of the Indianapolis 500.

Henry received the backing of an old acquaintance and a coal dealer, Alexander Y. Malcomson. Together they formed "Ford & Malcomson, Ltd." to manufacture practical automobiles. The duo leased a factory and contracted with a machine shop owned by John and Horace E. Dodge to supply over $160,000 in parts. Sales were slow, and a crisis arose when the Dodge brothers demanded payment for their first shipment. So Malcomson brought in another group of investors and and convinced the Dodge Brothers to accept a portion of the new company. On June 16, 1903, Ford & Malcomson was reincorporated and the Ford Motor Company was born.

Henry then demonstrated a newly designed car on the ice of Lake St. Clair and set a new land speed record, driving 1 mile in 39.4 seconds at 91.3 miles per hour.

Henry decided that every man, rich or poor, should be able to own an automobile and continually brought prices down. He did have to  bow to stockholders` pressure and ended up building the six-cylinder Model K. He continued to release Models using the alphabet, until he came to the T.

In 1908, the company introduced its famous Model T vehicle and was the first automobile to be mass produced. It's steering wheel was on it's left, which other companies shortly copied and the entire engine and transmission were enclosed. The four cylinders were cast in a solid block and the suspension used two semi-elliptic springs. It was easy to drive and cheap and just as easy to repair. It was priced at just $825 and within months demand became so high that production could not keep up. That is when Henry introduce the first assembly line in 1913.  

Henry said,

"Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black."

The Model T was such great success for Ford and his company, that by 1918, more than half of the automobiles on United States roads were Fords.

Henry was a firm believe in a livable wage, so he raised the pay rate from $2.34 to $5 a day for employees over 21, when the normal minimum wage was only $1. He also reduced the daily work hours from nine to eight hours.

Did you know that in 1918, Henry was convinced by President Woodrow Wilson to compete for the seat of senate as a Democrat and lost by only 4500 votes?

Stockholders wanted to split all the profits for themselves, Henry didn't want his company run that way, so he bought out all of the stockholders in 1919.

Henry was adamantly against labor unions and thought they were too heavily influenced by some leaders who, despite their good intentions, would end up doing more harm than good for workers. He promoted Harry Bennett, a former Navy boxer, to head the Service Department. Bennett employed various intimidation tactics to squash union organizing.

In the 1920's, the marketplace was changing and Ford began to fall behind the times. At the time, Ford's biggest competitor was Chevrolet. Chevrolet had an improved model every year and soon surpassed Ford in sales. Ford's "Tin Lizzie" was in need of a change.

In May 1927, thousands of workers  were laid off while 64 year old Henry, tried to find a way to get back into the marketplace. With the release of a brand new Model A, the company came roaring back to life. And with the success of the new Model A, when the stock market crashed in October 1929, the company rode out the first two years of the Depression relatively untouched. He raised his employee's wages and lowered the price of his automobiles.

The Depression caught up to the company in 1931 ant it was again forced to shut down production and send workers home.

The Ford V-8 with it's innovative eight-cylinder engine put Ford back on top and workers came back to discover that working conditions had drastically changed. To ensure his workers put in a full day's work, Henry hired a foreman and a group of supervisors creating the Service Department. Many of the members of the service department were ex-cons and boxers, who ruled the plant through fear and coercion.

Henry also founded the Ford Airline Company during World War I due to his interest in the aviation industry and built Liberty engines. When the U.S. entered the war in 1917 the company became a major supplier of weapons, especially the Liberty engine for airplanes, and anti-submarine boats. Ford plants in the United Kingdom produced tractors as well as trucks and aircraft engines. 

His most successful aircraft was the Ford 4AT Trimotor, often called the "Tin Goose" because of its corrugated metal construction. It first flew on June 11th, 1926 and and was the first successful U.S. passenger airliner, accommodating about 12 passengers comfortably. The company shut down in 1933 because of the Great Depression.

Henry hated war and insisted that "war was the product of greedy financiers who sought profit in human destruction". He was a conspiracy theorist who, in 1939, claimed that the torpedoing of U.S. merchant ships by German submarines was the result of conspiratorial activities undertaken by financier war-makers. He thought the war-makers were Jews. He also accused the Jews of instigating the first World War.

He never liked or entirely trusted the Franklin Roosevelt Administration and when World War II erupted, Henry and his company continued to do business with Nazi Germany, including the manufacture of war material.

Hitler said he regarded Ford as his "inspiration", and kept Ford's life-size portrait next to his desk.

In Germany in 1940, the Ford-Werke was under the control of the Ford Motor Company when requisitioned between 100 and 200 French POWs to work as slave laborer.

When the U.S. entered World War II the next year, Henry supported the war effort. The government asked him to build the B-24 Liberator Bomber but he had suffered a stroke that year, and due to his rapidly deteriorating physical and mental health, supervision of the project fell largely to Ford's only son, Edsel. This became too much for Edsel to handle and in May 1943, 50-year-old Edsel Ford died. At the age of 80, in spite of his clearly diminished capacities, Henry Ford once again was at the helm of Ford Motor Company.

The company began to decline, losing more than $10 million a month  and the administration of President Franklin Roosevelt had been considering a government takeover of the company in order to ensure continued war production. 

Instead, in August 1943, the Navy sent Ford's 26-year-old grandson, Henry Ford II, home in hopes that he could bring order to the chaos. With much protest on Henry's part he ceded the company Presidency to his grandson in September 1945. Henry then went into seclusion, appearing only occasionally at company events. 

Henry Ford died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 83 on April 7th, 1947. He was in his wife's arms at Fair Lane, his estate in Dearborn when it happened. At his public viewing at Greenfield Village up to 5,000 people per hour filed past the casket. Funeral services were held in Detroit's Cathedral Church of St. Paul and he was buried in the Ford Cemetery in Detroit.

Did you know that Henry tried to build a city in the middle of the Amazon to obtain a supply of rubber. It was called Fordlandia, and it didn't work out. The town is still empty to this day.

Henry was a Freemason and was raised in Palestine Lodge No. 357, Detroit, in 1894. When he received the 33rd degree of the Scottish Rite in 1940, he said, "Masonry is the best balance wheel the United States has."

Retired curator of transportation at The Henry Ford, Bob Casey admired Henry and said,

" Henry was one of these people who didn't take a job because he knew how to do it. 

He often took jobs because he didn't know how to do them, and they were opportunities to learn. 

It's a very gutsy way to learn."

Did you know that Henry believed in recreation?