Nessie, Yeti and those lovely lurking beasts can remythologise this oh-so-banal world In TH White’s Arthurian trilogy, The Once and Future King, one of the knights of Camelot, Sir Pellinore, dedicates his life to pursuing.
Closer to home is the realm of the humanoid Yeti, the so-called Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas, said to be a denizen of the high pinnacles of eternal snow. During the 1950s-1960s, when the Cold War was at its peak, and Earth a ticking doomsday clock minutes away from nuclear Armageddon, inexplicable phenomena like UFOs, and little green men from Mars, provided diverting distraction from the looming threat of destruction.
A remarkable new documentary explores the world of amateur and professional mermaiding and the language bubbling up within it. Some mermaiding enthusiasts