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Hafgufa (Old Norse: haf "sea" + Old Norse: gufa "steam"; [2] [3] "sea-reek"; [a] [5] "sea-steamer" [6]) is a sea creature, purported to inhabit Iceland's waters (Greenland Sea) and southward toward Helluland. Although it was thought to be a sea monster, research suggests that the stories originated from a specialized feeding technique among ...
Simultaneously strong, generous and humble, the Sea-Wolf was said to bring great luck and wealth to anyone fortunate enough to spy it, or hear its soulful howl. [ 2 ] According to artist Herem, Gonakadet myth is found among the Tsimshian , Tlingit and Haida peoples of British Columbia and Alaska and concerns the story of a sea-monster who is a ...
a fictional creature native to the northern regions of North America. Ikaroa: Māori Mythology: A long fish said to have given birth to all the stars in the Milky Way or to be the Mother Goddess of all the stars. Jasconius: An enormous fish in the story of Saint Brendan: Leviathan: A biblical sea creature from Talmud. Namazu: Catfish: Japanese ...
The captain who captured the creature tours the coast and profits from the corpse of the deceased creature. Some months later, the vessel with the creature breaks free from its moorings in a storm and disappears. A few weeks later, as the captain attempts to finish his business at Martin's Beach, two lifeguards and other on the beach attempt to ...
The original title of the story was "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms". It was published in The Saturday Evening Post. Meanwhile, a film with a similar theme of prehistoric sea monster was being shot under the working title of Monster from Beneath the Sea. Later the producers, who wished to capitalize on Bradbury's reputation and popularity ...
There is a monster in the sea which in Greek is called aspidochelone, in Latin "asp-turtle"; it is a great whale, that has what appear to be beaches on its hide, like those from the sea-shore. This creature raises its back above the waves of the sea, so that sailors believe that it is just an island, so that when they see it, it appears to them ...
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Charybdis aided her father Poseidon in his feud with her paternal uncle Zeus and, as such, helped him engulf lands and islands in water. Zeus, angry over the land she stole from him, sent her to the bottom of the sea with a thunderbolt; from the sea bed, she drank the water from the sea thrice a day, creating whirlpools.