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Published: 01.05.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Sea Monsters', 1.
Extract

Many families were torn apart, and their social status crushed due to the fantastic stories of unbelievable creatures told by early sailors. The stories they told of krakens, sea serpents, and monsters of enormous size that glowed with eerie luminescence, earned them reputations as liars and psychos. Today we still think of them as being superstitious and we ignore the facts that we already know. Those sailors did see something that they could only have described as monsters of the uncharted seas. …

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