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Rodway, James
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Indian charms. In: W. Beebe, G. I. Hartley, & P. G. Howes, Tropical wild life in British Guiana; zoological contributions from the Tropical Research Station of the New York Zoological Society. Vol. 1.
New York, New York Zoological Society (504 pp.): 488-499. Fig. 143. Jan. 1917.
–States that the "water-mamma" or manatee is believed to upset boats and "carry people down to a kind of fairyland beneath the dark waters"; it "may be repelled or propitiated by rubbing the bulb of the red lily over the corial before encountering the danger" (491). This plant is identified as Hippeastrum equestre on p. 499.
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Mermaid Legend
(SEE ALSO: Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Ri)
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Rodway, J. (Guyana; "water mamma"; 491, 499.) |
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Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance
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Rodway, J. (TMM; Guyana; 491-499.) |
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Trichechus manatus manatus Linnaeus, 1758, Hatt, 1934
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Rodway, J. (Guyana; "water mamma"; 491, 499.) |
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