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other mermaid stories from Cornwall, Wales, Scotland and the Isle of Man and have suggested that the egg-broth motif may indicate that the legend emerged in a much earlier period, perhaps the eighteenth century, "when the negative associations between eggs, witches, mermaids and maritime culture were far better known". They also argue that the reference to Jackdaw's Well (which had been destroyed by a landslide by the time Brown recounted the legend) makes sense only if the legend was circulating from at least the nineteenth century, when it

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