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Folk stories

What was passed from mouth to mouth, from one generation to the next.
The water spirit, chest-deep in water, looks out at the viewer
Ivan Bilibin, The Vodyanoy, 1934 Public domain
Legends · Folk stories

The ship that will not strike

Newfoundland and Labrador

Out of the fog a vessel comes on under full lights and holds her course to ram. The blow never lands.

Legends · Folk stories

The kraken, entered as an animal

Bergen

A bishop questioned sailors, weighed their answers, and put the kraken into a work of natural history. That is precisely why the creature is still with…