In his book Merpeople: A Human History, Vaughn Scribner offers a good analysis of the “culture of merpeople” that Christian Europeans took with them around the globe, for better or worse. And staying with watery weirdness, Tim Binnall writes of Multiple Nessie Sightings Reported recently at Scotland’s most famous Loch. Alas, no definitive photos, which is a great pity as one critter was reported to be “the size of a bus.â€� (LP)

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