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5. Kraken
A Norwegian folklore creature that attacks ships, creates whirlpools to drown people in or would wrap its tentacles around the ship dragging it to the bottom of the sea for all we know, the Kraken mistook the ship as a whale and tried to eat it.
Anyways, the Kraken is said to be so gigantic that it is often mistaken to be an island where people would mistakenly land on and they are said to look part octopus part crab or even a whale or turtle-like, but how they exactly look like seem to differ with different accounts.
Maybe its because of its humongous size, it was impossible to see the big picture or because those who come across it became utterly traumatized by it. But the most common thing that it has are tentacles and is very big.
The first detailed depiction of the Kraken was in 1752 by Erik Pontoppidan called “The first Attempt at the Natural History of Norway”. But the Kraken’s popularity started to rise in literature when a poem by Alfred Tennyson called “The Kraken” was published in 1830.
Now people believe that the Kraken is a giant, giant squid.