Fairy?

[Unorthodox]

Random crap...

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[Rusty Edge]

I say hoax. Just because it has bones doesn't mean it's natural. It could be a frankenthingie.

[Buster's Uncle]

That's not even a good fake, looks like.

Uno, what's the term I'm trying to think of, the sewn-together fake mermaids?  My brain is trying to cough up something like "Molly Sawdust", which isn't right.

[E_T]

You have to purchase the full video to be able to see it...

X-ray, shesh, use CAT, MRI, PET and ultrasound on the thing.... and some scanning Electron Microscope as well as gene squencing...  Too much can be done too "Cheaply" these days...

Fake I am guessing....   if it was real, I Would have had the video free and started a crowd funding effort, if monies for further.research was needed...

[Unorthodox]

That's not even a good fake, looks like.

Uno, what's the term I'm trying to think of, the sewn-together fake mermaids?  My brain is trying to cough up something like "Molly Sawdust", which isn't right.

Fiji Mermaid was the most famous. 


Anyhow:

If real, those wings would be incapable of flight.  They lack the proper bones to support musculature needed. 

I'm 90% sure that's a bat corpse someone took the wing structures that actually attach to the wrist area of the bat, and sewed them onto the back.  I know 3 artists off hand who could make a convincing sideshow gaff version of that with a dead bat. 

[gwillybj]

Looks like a mutated mantis to me.

[Buster's Uncle]

Fiji Mermaid is right -ISTR something about sewing a fishtail on a monkey- but that's more of a modern label, I think, and there was at least one other common term at the time...  Jenny Hawser is popping into my head, now.

[Unorthodox]

Looks like a mutated mantis to me.

Only bugs with a wing structure anywhere close to that would be a stick bug species.  Even then, it would take more modification than a bat to produce such a thing. 

[Bearu]

I remain suspicious of any object that the publisher does not authenticate through a scientific test. The obvious absence of the authentication raises a series of warning klaxons for my mind.

[Unorthodox]

Fiji Mermaid is right -ISTR something about sewing a fishtail on a monkey- but that's more of a modern label, I think, and there was at least one other common term at the time...  Jenny Hawser is popping into my head, now.

Yes, the original Fiji mermaid was a monkey/fish. 

About the only other one that old is the furred trout I can think of.  Perhaps you're thinking more into the 1900s? 

You had a slew of 'mummies' "petrified men" and "giants" through the mid 1800s in dime museums... 

[Buster's Uncle]

I may indeed be thinking later than you.  Not an interest of mine, but I've certainly heard of the slew of 'mummies' "petrified men" and "giants" - dead notorious cowboys taken on tour, for that matter.

[Unorthodox]

Maybe you're thinking the various angel/devil/alien (depending on where and how old) corpses made from rays and cuttlefish? 

They kicked up when more industrial scale fishing started happening . 

[Buster's Uncle]

Oh, I've heard of that stuff too, but thinking a lot further back than that.

ISTR reading something a long time ago -Rolling Stone article, maybe- about a giant corpse that toured in the 1800s and still exists fairly intact, someone xrayed and found goodies like actual bailing wire inside...

[Rusty Edge]

Fiji Mermaid is right -ISTR something about sewing a fishtail on a monkey- but that's more of a modern label, I think, and there was at least one other common term at the time...  Jenny Hawser is popping into my head, now.

When you said "Molly Sawdust", I thought "No, it's a Jenny... something or other ... maybe the last name starts with "Mc" or "Mac" or maybe not.

So I'm pretty sure the Jenny part is right.

[Unorthodox]

Oh, I've heard of that stuff too, but thinking a lot further back than that.

ISTR reading something a long time ago -Rolling Stone article, maybe- about a giant corpse that toured in the 1800s and still exists fairly intact, someone xrayed and found goodies like actual bailing wire inside...

Maybe McGinty/Sylvester.  IIRC he was a mixture of wire, concrete and corpse.  Soapy Smith built him found the most spectacular specimen in a mine,  and used him as an attraction for a few years, and it then was sold to a traveling circus.  The Provenance of the item in question is rather suspect after it left Smith's hands. 

He's...well, there's one that claims to be him somewhere, and it's been examined a few times.  I think the Mummies of the World exhibit picked it up on one of their tours, but it didn't come locally here. 

The only reason I know so much about THAT one is an abnormal interest in Soapy Smith.