Sea monster

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sea monster • Generic name for any imaginary sea creature.

Three sea monsters. John Meares, 1796. Viaggi dalla China alla costa nord-ovest d'America fatti negli anni 1788 e 1789, Firenze, A spese di Giovacchino Pagani. https://jcb.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/s/515y3u

English

Sea monster

Portuguese

Monstro marinho

Norwegian

Sjømonster; Havmonster

Dutch

Zeemonster

German

Seeungeheuer; Seeungetüm

French

Monstre marin

Spanish

Monstruo marino

Catalan

Monstre marí

Italian

Mostro marino

Greek

Creole

Monstru (Island of Santiago, Cape Verde)

Monstlu (Forro, creoule of São Tomé and Príncipe)

References

• Video Mermaids and Manatees, CHAM-Centre for the Humanities.
• Video Hybrid beings and aquatic mammals in the Greco-Roman accounts, CHAM-Centre for the Humanities.
• Brito, C. 2016. New Science From Old News: Sea monsters in the early modern Portuguese production and transfer of knowledge about the natural world. Scientia et Historia, Escola de Mar nº 1. ISBN: 978-989-9931-11-4
• Brito, C. 2019. Fantasy, Cryptozoology and/or Reality: Interconnected stories of mythological creatures and marine mammals. In: Mário S. Ming Kong. Maria do Rosário Monteiro & Maria João P. Neto (Eds) PHI: Intelligence, Creativity and Fantasy. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, London, New York, Leiden: 335-351.
• Hendrikx, S. 2018. Monstrosities from the Sea. Taxonomy and tradition in Conrad Gessner’s (1516-1565) discussion of cetaceans and sea-monsters, in Jacquemard, C., B. Gauvin, M.-A. Lucas-Avenel, B. Clavel & T. Buqet (éds), Animaux aquatiques et monstres des mers septentrionales (imaginer, connaître, exploiter, de l’Antiquité à 1600). Anthropozoologica 53 (11): 125-137. https://doi.org/10.5252/anthropozoologica2018v53a11
• https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/anthropozoologica/53/11
• Leclercq-Marx, J. 2018. Entre tradition classique et imaginaire germano-celtique : les monstres anthropomorphes des mers septentrionales, au Moyen Âge et au début de l’époque moderne, in Jacquemard C., Gauvin B., Lucas-Avenel M.-A., Clavel B. & Buquet T. (éds), Animaux aquatiques et monstres des mers septentrionales (imaginer, connaître, exploiter, de l’Antiquité à 1600). Anthropozoologica 53 (3): 53-65. https://doi.org/10.5252/anthropozoologica2018v53a3
• https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/anthropozoologica/53/3
• Duzer, C. van 2013. Sea Monsters in Medieval and Renaissance Maps. The British Library, London.