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6,852 published records with substantive text · Page 130 of 143
Though PONTOPPIDAN did not seem to believe that this animal was his sea-serpent, I am convinced that such was indeed the case, because the whole description is exactly that of the animal
Read record →“Last winter I happened to meet the Royal Commander and Pilot-general at Bergen, Mr
Read record →called Jule-Naess, as I was reading in a book, I heard a kind of murmuring voice from amongst the men at the oars, who were eight in number, and observed that the man at the helm kept off from the land
Read record →VON FERRY’S declaration that the head of the sea-serpent resembled that of a horse, we cannot give another explanation than that it evidently was held at nearly right angles with the neck, that the nostrils were wide opened and large, and that the mane on the
Read record →Here again it is stated that the sea-serpent is only seen in July and August (and PONTOPPIDAN believes that these two months are the pairing-time of the animal), that it only appears in calm weather, and dives under water as soon as the wind rises
Read record →“Like all who are enemies to credulousness I too doubted of the existence of the sea-serpent, when at last my doubt was dispelled by incontestable proofs
Read record →It is remarkable that though EGEDE has nowhere asserted that his animal was a sea-serpent, our learned Bishop seems to have recognized it as such at once, believing, however, it to be another species of the same genus
Read record →The sharks, however, which are also cartilaginous fishes without bones, have such a backbone, but it is very subtile and even in the largest sharks only ten ells long
Read record →There is but one single reason why we think the sea-serpent is a viviparous being, viz
Read record →ARENDT BERNDSEN (Danmarks og Norges frugtbare Herlighed p
Read record →PONTOPPIDAN further tells us that the sea-serpent sometimes encloses ships by laying itself round them in a circle, that the fishermen then row over its body there where a coil is visible, for when they reach the coil, it sinks, while on the contrary the invis
Read record →employed in Missions in the District of Maine, and navigated his own boat among the islands, &c
Read record →“With peculiar pleasure I comply with your request, though the urgency of my affairs must excuse my brevity
Read record →CUMMINGS in his second letter says “it appeared so to us, his real motion might be horizontal”
Read record →“All this evidence, I think, cannot fail to establish the fact that a large sea-serpent has been seen in and near the Bay of Penobscot
Read record →Though the Committee now possessed the long wished-for drawing of the Sea-Serpent, it did not publish it, nor did it state why it did not
Read record →What now are the most interesting parts of this notice?
Read record →of Gloucester, in the County of Essex, shipmaster, depose and say; that I have seen a strange marine animal, that I believe to be a sea-serpent, in the harbour in said Gloucester
Read record →“In the paper called the “Illustrated London News” of 28th
Read record →“During the past three years you will have seen accounts in the newspapers, or reports will have met you in another form of an immense sea-serpent having infested our shores in Boston Bay
Read record →s, that a few days before, as he was taking a ride with his wife in a chair, the road taking them close to a bank which overlooks the harbour (and is nearly a perpendicular precipice), he saw an uncommon appearance, which induced him to descend from the carria
Read record →It was killed by a labourer at that place
Read record →DE BLAINVILLE tried to throw ridicule on two reports, viz
Read record →“If we were now to scrutinize the existence of the Great Sea-Serpent, we must confess that it would be difficult to deny the appearance of an animal of very great length, very slender, and swimming with rapidity, in the sea near Cape Ann, but that it is a true
Read record →“In the testimonies above referred to, the imagination seems to have had no influence, and we certainly know from them, that the existence of the animal to which they relate is indisputable; we know that it moves by vertical undulations, at least while near th
Read record →e Seven Tablets of Creation, which King was enabled, through the information contained in them, to arrange for the first time in their proper sequence, shows that the main object of the Legend was the glorification of the god Marduk, the son of Ea (Enki), as t
Read record →She is depicted as a ferocious monster with wings and scales and terrible claws, and her body is sometimes that of a huge serpent, and sometimes that of an animal
Read record →Ea went forth to fight the powers of darkness and he conquered Apsu and Mummu
Read record →ivalent, of ANU, the Sky-god, in the kingdom of darkness, for it is said in the text "Kingu was exalted and received the power of Anu," i.e., he possessed the same power and attributes as Anu
Read record →Tiamat saw Marduk and began to revile him, and when he challenged her to battle she flew into a rage and attempted to overthrow him by reciting an incantation, thinking that her words of power would destroy his strength
Read record →ce of the original form of the Legend of the Fight between Ea and Apsu, and Marduk and Tiamat, and the period of its composition are unknown, but there is no doubt that in one form or another it persisted in Mesopotamia for thousands of years
Read record →1] begins with a description of the Creation and then goes on to describe a Flood, and there is little doubt that certain passages in this text are the originals of the Babylonian version as given in the Seven Tablets
Read record →[In the British Museum tablets lines 63-108 are either wanting entirely, or are too broken to translate, and the last 130 lines of the Berlin fragment are much mutilated
Read record →A 1914-10-12 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “little people”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.
Read record →A 1914-10-12 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “little people”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.
Read record →A 1917-02-14 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “little people”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.
Read record →A 1917-06-03 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “sea serpent”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.
Read record →A 1919-03-01 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “little people”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.
Read record →A 1900-11-28 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “sulphur smell”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.
Read record →A 1921-09-17 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “strange footprints”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.
Read record →A 1913-05-29 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “haunted house”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.
Read record →A 1913-05-29 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “haunted house”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.
Read record →A 1908-08-07 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “giant bird”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.
Read record →A 1897-04-16 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “giant bird”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.
Read record →A 1892-04-07 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “strange light in the sky”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.
Read record →A 1899-05-04 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “lake monster”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.
Read record →A 1916-04-06 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “sulphur smell”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.
Read record →A 1918-05-23 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “vanished suddenly”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.
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