#Mermay day 27 “Amabie”

The legendary Japanese ningyo with three tails, who allegedly emerges from the sea and prophesies an abundant harvest or an epidemic.

She appeared Higo Province of Japan in 1846, in the Edo Period. After glowing object had been spotted in the sea, the town's official went to the coast to investigate and witnessed the amabie, a mermaid with long hair, a mouth like bird's bill, all covered in scales from the neck down and three-legged. Amabie told him that she lived in the open sea and went on to deliver a prophecy: "Good harvest will continue for six years from the current year; if disease spreads, draw a picture of me and show the picture of me to those who fall ill and they will be cured."

In these hard pandemic times, I draw you, Amabie, to help us from the covid-19 disease!