The Mermaid of Finnmark

"The Land Baby" Oil Painting on canvas by John Collier 1899 

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My Aunt Hanna once told me about the time she and her husband encountered a mermaid while out fishing.

This all happened years ago but my Aunt Hanna remembers it perfectly, it happened of the coast of Vardø in Finmark Norway, were Aunt Hanna and her husband Gunnar was out for one of their usual jig fishing trips in a small open boat, this was one of several fishing spots over a natural underwater cave known for it's rich schools of fish. As they started hauling up their jig, Gunnar noticed there was something swimming just under the surface of the water, at first he thought it was a harbor porpoise which is a small whale common in this part of Norway. 

He altered Hanna of the whale, and they watched it swimming around the boat before surfacing, it was then they realized this was not a whale at all but what seemed to be a female, with blue gray skin and long hair, she also wore sea weeds around her neck as if it was ornamental. She stood still in the water watching them before returning back to the deep, hair fish tail was the last thing Hanna and Gunnar saw before the mermaid disappeared down into the depths of the ocean.  

To this day Aunt Hanna still swears that mermaids are indeed real, my uncle Gunnar passed away years ago so I never got to hear his version of their mermaid encounter. 

I have always been fascinated with mermaids and other merfolks, and also a adamant supporter of the water ape theory as part of our own human evolution. This is why when I recently I came across a program that in the best ways I so far have seen described the water ape theory and merged this with the mermaid mythos I was especially thrilled. 

The documentary below is fictional in nature but still sums up all the mermaid mythos and looks at the water ape theory as part of the human evolutionary tree like no other program I have seen before.

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Blood-stopping - Lœsing - The Will to Stop Bleedings

Blood-stopping is a well-known phenomena in Northern Norway, both by the Sami, Finnish and Norwegian people. I am myself from a family known for their ability to perform the "reading" (lœsing) which stops blood. TJ, which a relative of mine, is the one I know best in this art and I have observed her doing blood-stopping when needed. This involves reciting the bible and commanding the blood to stop. I have also heard that some of the Native Americans has very similar "readings" of the bible to perform blood-stopping.

One time while up in the mountains one of our friends fell and broke his leg, and had a deep cut too gushing with blood, immediately TJ run over and started performing the "reading" and the blood stopped almost instantaneously, and also caused my friend to pass out. TJ commented, "I think I read it too strong, usually they do not pass out during reading."

A different time that I was able to observe this was when TJ performed blood-stopping on a injured cow, it had been badly injured from a harvesters blade falling over and penetrated more than a foot deep into the young cow, which by the time we got to her already had substantial blood loss, and again just as with humans TJ did the same type of reading and commanded the blood to stop.

TJ has perform this type of instant emergency healing regularly and helped save both people and animal so they could be brought to the hospital, as she has done this many times like her uncles and grandparents before her, a long chain of those with the ability or as TJ puts it the Will to stop blood.

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Growing-up as a Psychic

Here is another contribution from Nina in Tromsø, Norway

I think that I have always been psychic, I used to know things that no one told me, like when I was about 4 years old, I shocked my parents by telling them that I felt really sorry for our neighbor Astrid, then when they asked why I told them that she was dying. They got even more shocked when they went over to see Astrid and she told them she was dying of cancer. Then when they asked me how I knew I would simply reply, "I just know". I do not remember this one myself, but it was one of the earliest cases of the paranormal that my parents experienced from me, and they made sure that the early stories got retold as I grew up.

One of the earliest recollections that I actually remember myself happened back in my grandparents house, I was about 5 years old and the house has always been haunted by the earlier generations of our family, all the way back to my great great grandparents. This one time the spirits were especially restless, turning on and off lights, footsteps and knocking. I stood there in the middle of the kitchen were the most commotion was and said loud and clear to all the others present. "There is nothing to worry about, these are just the spirits of the house letting us all know they are here, and that they are here watching over us".

Since things like this always happened to me it is one of the most natural parts of my being, and I am used to getting bits and pieces of information from objects or when giving someone a handshake, though I do not share this fact with most people, since one could quickly be marked as insane by those that do not understand, believe or those that even think that psychic abilities are of the devil.

Personally I believe that any abilities psychic or normal ones could be used for good or evil, so the abilities them-self does not make one in league with the evils of the world. I have also learned that people from Finnmark, especially those that are full or part sami like me seem to be much more willing to believe in paranormal phenomena's than those from Tromsø or farther south in Norway.

I have never been able to control my ability other than one could choose to be open and prepared for the flash of information and thereby catch more of it or one could choose to block it thereby only getting very tiny fragments. Strong emotions are pretty much impossible to block and some people would literally blow your mind out with their own total chaos in their emotional state of mind.

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