As long as there has been men and women by the Sea, there has been stories told about Mermaids.
The folk story of Mermaids tears is well known by sea glass addicts but for anyone who wasn't sure, here you go....
Long ago, when men were just starting to spread their tendrils across the world and traveled the sea by ships, searching for new discoveries and adventure. Sailors would share tales of their perilous sea journeys, sea serpents, huge waves and mystical caves and caverns filled with flying lights and glowing pools. They also talked of beautiful creatures, half woman and half fish, whose pale hands held the fortune of all sailors that dared cross their seas. Such was their power, they would carve these women, Mermaids, onto the front of their ships as good fortune.
A Mermaid could quiet a storm with a single breath or bring forth a wave with a flick of her fin. Fate itself could be diverted by a mermaid’s kindness. Yet, Neptune, Lord of the Sea, helped maintain the laws of fate, and forbade the maidens to use their powers to change the natural course.
One stormy night a young, handsome Captain was caught in a terrible storm. Unbeknownst to him, a mermaid had been following his ship for years, watching silently as he grew from a deck hand to Captain, and she'd fallen him love with the man he had become. The Captain now perilously close to the raging sea, the mermaid couldn't bare to loose him so in an instant, the she calmed and tamed the waves, changing the course of nature and saving the life of the man she had grown to love from afar.
For her impetuous act, Neptune banished the sobbing mermaid to the oceans depths, condemning her for eternity never to surface or swim with the ships again. To this day, her gleaming tears wash up on the beaches as sea glass . . . treasures in magic sea colors, an eternal reminder of true love.
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