The Kraken
03/03/21 • 17 min
Monstrous cephalopods of legend!
As mentioned in the episode, copy and paste these URLs to see the Kraken's real-world cousins in action!
First living giant squid ever photographed in its natural habitat!
http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2013/01/08/exp-early-ellis-giant-squid.cnn
A recent video of a giant squid in the Gulf of Mexico!
http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2019/06/22/giant-squid-orig.cnn
A rare surface encounter with a giant squid in Toyama Bay, Japan!
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/dec/30/rare-giant-squid-encounter-toyama-bay-japan-video
Visit Scholar Minor at http://www.ursaminorcreations.com!
Overhead forest photo by Spencer Watson via Unsplash.
Book spine photo by Annie Spratt via Unsplash.
Music: "Wonderland" by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Bibliography:
“An Essay on the Credibility of the Existence of the Kraken, Sea Serpent, and Other Sea Monsters.” United Kingdom: W. Tegg & Company, 1849.
Bassett, Fletcher S. Sea Phantoms: Or, Legends and Superstitions of the Sea and of Sailors. United States: Morrill, Higgins & Company, 1892.
Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: Insufficient- Mashy. United Kingdom: B. Fellowes, 1845.
Hann, Michael. "A monster from the depths of our imagination." The Guardian. March 1, 2006. Accessed March 1, 2021. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/mar/02/g2
"Monographic Revision of the Cephalopods of the Atlantic Coast, from Cape Hatteras to Newfoundland." Report of the Commissioner for 1879, Part VII. United States: Bureau of Fisheries, 1882.
Salvador, Rodrigo B. and Barbara M. Tomotani. "The Kraken: when myth encounters science." Historia, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos. V. 21, N. 3. Rio de Janeiro: 2014.
Salvador, Rodrigo B. "Kraken: The real-life origins of the legendary sea monster." The Independent. January 4, 2016. Accessed March 1, 2021. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/kraken-real-life-origins-legendary-sea-monster-a6796241.html
Verrill, Alpheus Hyatt. The Ocean and Its Mysteries. United States: Duffield & Company, 1917.
Verne, Jules. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. United States: Butler Brothers, 1887.
Monstrous cephalopods of legend!
As mentioned in the episode, copy and paste these URLs to see the Kraken's real-world cousins in action!
First living giant squid ever photographed in its natural habitat!
http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2013/01/08/exp-early-ellis-giant-squid.cnn
A recent video of a giant squid in the Gulf of Mexico!
http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2019/06/22/giant-squid-orig.cnn
A rare surface encounter with a giant squid in Toyama Bay, Japan!
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/dec/30/rare-giant-squid-encounter-toyama-bay-japan-video
Visit Scholar Minor at http://www.ursaminorcreations.com!
Overhead forest photo by Spencer Watson via Unsplash.
Book spine photo by Annie Spratt via Unsplash.
Music: "Wonderland" by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Bibliography:
“An Essay on the Credibility of the Existence of the Kraken, Sea Serpent, and Other Sea Monsters.” United Kingdom: W. Tegg & Company, 1849.
Bassett, Fletcher S. Sea Phantoms: Or, Legends and Superstitions of the Sea and of Sailors. United States: Morrill, Higgins & Company, 1892.
Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: Insufficient- Mashy. United Kingdom: B. Fellowes, 1845.
Hann, Michael. "A monster from the depths of our imagination." The Guardian. March 1, 2006. Accessed March 1, 2021. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/mar/02/g2
"Monographic Revision of the Cephalopods of the Atlantic Coast, from Cape Hatteras to Newfoundland." Report of the Commissioner for 1879, Part VII. United States: Bureau of Fisheries, 1882.
Salvador, Rodrigo B. and Barbara M. Tomotani. "The Kraken: when myth encounters science." Historia, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos. V. 21, N. 3. Rio de Janeiro: 2014.
Salvador, Rodrigo B. "Kraken: The real-life origins of the legendary sea monster." The Independent. January 4, 2016. Accessed March 1, 2021. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/kraken-real-life-origins-legendary-sea-monster-a6796241.html
Verrill, Alpheus Hyatt. The Ocean and Its Mysteries. United States: Duffield & Company, 1917.
Verne, Jules. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. United States: Butler Brothers, 1887.
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The strange and sorrowful life of a Gothic horror legend.
Visit Scholar Minor at http://www.ursaminorcreations.com!
Overhead forest photo by Spencer Watson via Unsplash.
Book spine photo by Annie Spratt via Unsplash.
Music: "Wonderland" by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Bibliography:
Bondurant, Agnes M. Poe's Richmond. The Poe Museum. Accessed on February 22, 2021. https://www.poemuseum.org/poe-in-richmond
The Collected Letters of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume I: 1824-1846. Edited by John Ward Ostrom, Burton R. Pollin, and Jeffrey A. Savoye. New York: The Gordian Press, 2008.
Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Edited by Louis Untermeyer. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Heritage Press, 1971.
"Huffman's Study of the Eighteenth Century Novel." Reviewed by Atcheson L. Hench. The Alumni Bulletin of the University of Virginia, Volume 16. United States: University of Virginia Press, 1923.
The Last Letters of Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Helen Whitman. Edited by James A. Harrison. New York & London: The Knickerbocker Press, 1909.
Poe, Edgar Allan. Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Poems. United States: Bottletree Books, LLC, 2008.
Taylor-White, Alyson L. Shockoe Hill Cemetery: A Richmond Landmark History. United States: History Press, 2017.
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Ghosts, Part 1: Poltergeists
Otherworldly mischief-makers!
Visit Scholar Minor at http://www.ursaminorcreations.com!
Overhead forest photo by Spencer Watson via Unsplash.
Book spine photo by Annie Spratt via Unsplash.
Music: "Wonderland" by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Bibliography:
Dagnall, Dr. Neil and Ken Drinkwater. "Eight things you need to know about poltergeists - just in time for Halloween." Manchester Metropolitan University. October 31, 2017. Accessed March 8, 2021. https://www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/story/6543/
Romain, Lindsey. "The Terrifying True Story That Inspired Poltergeist." Nerdist. October 2, 2020. Accessed March 8, 2021. https://nerdist.com/article/poltergeist-true-story-inspired-movie/
Thurston, Herbert. Edited by J.H. Crehan. Ghosts and Poltergeists. Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1954.
Thurston, Herbert. Surprising Mystics. Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1955.
Potts, Michael. "Herbert Thurston." Psi Encyclopedia. London: The Society for Psychical Research, 2015. Accessed March 8, 2021. https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/herbert-thurston
White, Micah. "The 'Poltergeist' Curse: Inside the Mysterious Cast Deaths and Oddities On Set." Biography. June 17, 2020. Accessed March 8, 2021. https://www.biography.com/news/the-poltergeist-curse-its-heeere
Scholar Minor - The Kraken
Transcript
"Below the thunders of the upper deep,
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumbered and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms in the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages,
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