![]() ![]() Like the hafstramba, she is connected to bad sea storms and was mentioned alongside the strange, pale torsos. Her eyes are piercing, her hair is wild, and her webbed hands are seemingly too big for her body. Yet another humanoid sea monster from Norse mythology, the margygr is a giant, horrifying mermaid that lurks off the coast of Greenland. If away, the crew has a chance of pulling through. If it came toward the ship, the crew would lose many men in the storm. The shy creature would either swim toward the ship or away from the ship as it submerged itself. Whenever sailors would come across this strange creature, it meant a storm was on its way. However, what makes this sea creature particularly creepy is its ominous nature. Again, the horror of the unknown is common with sea tales. It’s odd and uncanny, seemingly blending the horror of a corpse and a giant sea monster simultaneously. Nobody knows whether its lower half ends in a tail or if it draws out into another sharp point. It isn’t scaly but has icy pale skin and a pointy head. The hafstramba is a humanoid Norse sea monster that is giant, emaciated and possibly just a torso. However, the fact that nobody actually knows what it looks like gives it that extra Jaws element of unseen destruction. ![]() In a way, it’s a strange element of nature-a part of the natural cycle of the world. It devours everything smaller than itself and regurgitates fish guts back into the sea for other creatures to eat. Though the hafgufa isn’t on the level of other world-ending giant sea monsters, it holds a unique place on this list as an unseen “mother of sea monsters”. Most accounts suggest the Hafgufa has a mate named Lyngbakr, which is kind of sweet in a giant monster sort of way. If sailors mistake the monster’s mouth for land, they may be devoured as the island sinks back into the abyss. Appearing in Nordic works such as The Kings Mirror, this creature’s nose and jaws jut out of the sea like rocky islands. Otherwise known as “Sea Fog” or “Sea Mist”, Hafgufa is an insanely huge Nordic monster. Apocalyptic Serpents-Leviathan/Jörmungandr.If we don’t take actions like slowing boaters and reducing fertilizer runoff, we may lose these creatures, and a source of mermaid myth will vanish from the ocean.The scariest sea monsters in mythology include: The IUCN lists the dugong as vulnerable, as it is extinct or declining in at least one-third of its range. There is also trouble for dugongs, close relatives of the manatee that share many of the same threats. One subspecies, the Antillean or Caribbean manatee ( Trichehus manatus manatus), currently has a population of just 2,500 mature individuals and is expected to decline by more than 20 percent over the next two generations unless something can be done to reduce these threats. Because of such harrowing statistics, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has listed all three species of manatees as vulnerable to extinction, and a few manatee subspecies as endangered. Of these, 276 were killed by algae blooms, 115 from an unknown disease, and 72 from boat collisions. Florida manatee deaths hit a record high in 2013, with 829 killed-about 17 percent of the known population, including 126 calves. With all of these factors combined, manatees are suffering. Barrie's Peter Pan, some versions of mermaids can be kind, such as Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, made famous by Disney’s 1989 popular film iteration of the same story. Although these sirens had vicious personalities, as did the mermaids in J.M. Though the ancient Greek sirens, who lured sailors to their deaths in Homer's Odyssey, were originally described as having bird bodies, they are often portrayed as fish-tailed mermaids-so frequently that variations on the word “siren” means mermaid in many languages. The first recorded half-fish, half-human creature is Oannes, a Babylonian god from the 4th century BCE who would leave the sea every day and return at night. Mermaid mythology is quite varied, with mermaids taking on many different appearances, origins, and personalities. One creature that shows up in such stories throughout history is the mermaid. They helped to bring the mysterious ocean into the more familiar realm of the ‘known' by introducing human traits and an element of storytelling. In centuries past, the ocean was thought to be full of krakens, sea serpents, sea monsters and other fantastic creatures.
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