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Sigmund and the Sea Monsters; Sea Serpent as depicted in C.S. Lewis' novel, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and its 2010 film adaptation, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The Meg, the giant moray eel Great Abaia, and the giant squid Lusca. The Great are 3 sea monsters featured as bosses in the survival video game ...
Large, serpent-like creature. [57] Rivers, Lakes, and Caves throughout New Zealand [58] New Zealand: Australia: Taniwha: Resembles a shark, dragon, or whale, or a shapeshifter that can appear like any of those animals. [59] Creatures from Māori folklore Bala Lake Wales United Kingdom: Europe: Teggie [citation needed] Thetis Lake British ...
The hafgufa (described as the largest of the sea monsters, inhabiting the Greenland Sea) from the King's Mirror [67] [68] [o] continues to be identified with the kraken in some scholarly writings, [70] [19] and if this equivalence were allowed, the kraken-hafgufa's range would extend, at least legendarily, to waters approaching Helluland ...
Articles relating to sea monsters, beings from folklore believed to dwell in the sea and often imagined to be of immense size. Marine monsters can take many forms, including sea dragons, sea serpents, or tentacled beasts. They can be slimy and scaly and are often pictured threatening ships or spouting jets of water.
Sea-bee – Fish-tailed bee; Sea-lion; Sea monk (Medieval folklore) – Fish-like humanoid; Sea monster (Worldwide) – Giant, marine animals; Sea serpent (Worldwide) – Serpentine sea monster; Sea-Wyvern – Fish-tailed wyvern; Seko – Water spirit which can be heard making merry at night
In Nordic mythology, Jörmungandr (or Midgarðsormr) was a sea serpent or worm so long that it encircled the entire world, Midgard. [4] Sea serpents also appear frequently in later Scandinavian folklore, particularly in that of Norway, such as an account that in 1028 AD, Saint Olaf killed a sea serpent in Valldal in Norway, throwing its body onto the mountain Syltefjellet.
On April 25, 1977, the Japanese trawler Zuiyō Maru, fishing east of Christchurch, New Zealand, caught a strange, unknown creature in the trawl.The crew was convinced it was an unidentified animal, [4] but despite the potential biological significance of the curious discovery, the captain, Akira Tanaka, decided to dump the carcass into the ocean again so not to risk spoiling the fish caught.
Their hands are webbed like an aquatic creature, along with scales and fins. It wears an amautik, an Inuit parka mostly worn by women. [4] Some say that their parkas are made of eider duck feathers and are used to carry kidnapped children. [5] It is said to have two flippers, one is able to emit a shrill sound that paralyzes its victims.