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Sourced using AI1951 · Galle, Ceylon
Read record →Sourced using AI1910s–1946 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Read record →Sourced using AINovember 2004 · Pacific Ocean, off Southern California
Read record →Sourced using AI1970 · Hawaiian Islands
Read record →Sourced using AIMississippi River Indigenous image and 19th-century documentation; later reinterpretations · Near Alton, Illinois, United States, with broader comparative folklore relevance
Read record →Sourced using AI1977–1981 · Pakistan; locality uncertain
Read record →Sourced using AI1930s · Nanjing, China
Read record →Sourced using AI14 April 1561 · Nuremberg, Bavaria
Read record →Sourced using AI2022–2024 · Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s · Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
Read record →Sourced using AI2016 · Phoenix, Arizona
Read record →Sourced using AIModern Southern African folklore; widely documented in the 20th and 21st centuries · Southern Africa, especially South Africa, Lesotho, and Eswatini
Read record →Sourced using AI1977–1981 · Toledo, Ohio and western Lake Erie
Read record →Sourced using AIMalay-world folklore; modern documentation and popular adaptations · Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia
Read record →Sourced using AIOctober–November 1975 · Minot Air Force Base and surrounding airspace, North Dakota
Read record →Sourced using AI1912–1913 · Mozambique and northeastern South Africa
Read record →Sourced using AINovember 1957 · Odessa, Texas
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · Taipei, Taiwan
Read record →Sourced using AI1860s–1880s · Mexico; Paris, France
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · Ipoh, Perak
Read record →Sourced using AI1994 · Irkutsk airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI2001 · Nanjing, Jiangsu
Read record →Sourced using AI1997 · Anchorage, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI1993–1996 · Gdańsk and the Baltic coast
Read record →Sourced using AI1968 · Friedrichshafen or northern Lake Constance, Baden-Württemberg
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval Ethiopian hagiography; saint died in 1352 · Ethiopia and northern Egypt in the saint’s travel tradition
Read record →Sourced using AIMay 20, 1967 · Falcon Lake, Manitoba
Read record →Sourced using AISeptember 1957 · Ubatuba, São Paulo
Read record →Sourced using AI2000 · Bari, Apulia, Italy
Read record →Sourced using AI1959 · Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal
Read record →Sourced using AI2006 · Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Read record →Sourced using AIText transmitted under the name Liezi; extant compilation probably early medieval, drawing on earlier material · China
Read record →Sourced using AI1953–1969 · Utrecht
Read record →Sourced using AI1992 · Fairbanks, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI1952 · Campinas, São Paulo
Read record →Sourced using AI1994 · Freeport, Grand Bahama, Bahamas
Read record →Sourced using AI27 October 1975 · Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Michigan
Read record →Sourced using AI2008 · Hilo, Hawaii Island, Hawaii
Read record →Sourced using AI1985 · Ukrainian SSR; multiple regions
Read record →Sourced using AI1969 · Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI1972 · Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas
Read record →Sourced using AI1768; published 1771 · Tahiti, Society Islands
Read record →Sourced using AI2000 · Hessdalen Valley, Norway
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2009 · Venice Lagoon, Veneto
Read record →Sourced using AI2007 · Ross Sea
Read record →Sourced using AI1953 (exact date requires verification) · Ota, near Alenquer
Read record →Sourced using AI2002–2007 · Jerusalem; Israel Antiquities Authority and courtroom proceedings
Read record →Sourced using AIUsually dated to late antiquity, perhaps 4th century CE · Egyptian Greek papyrus tradition
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