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

Θαλάσσιο τέρας

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.