A Mermaid and a Magic Comb

Cury, Cornwall, England (map)

Dated: 1700 - 1800

Have you ever walked along the beach and wondered where the items washed up by the tide come from? Well, one elderly man in Cornwall, many years ago, found something very strange indeed and it changed his life.

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Name: Anita Stefanelli	14th July 2014
awesome story i loved it i just wish tell us more about the husband

Name: Kathy	10th July 2014
when my grandma was a littel girl she saw a Fisher man who fell a sleep when he woke up he found a come made of a bull horn shaped as a mermaid when he came to shore he gave it to my grandma i was so surprised to see it because im fasanated in real stories. this is true

Name: Navenshia	4th July 2014
This sounds so real .I can't believe that mermaid tales Like this actualy existed

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