MAKE A MEME View Large Image Sea fables explained (15587574235).jpg THE LERNEAN HYDRA <br> 53 <br> Having ascertained that the octopus was a familiar <br> object in the very locality where the combat between <br> Hercules and the Hydra is supposed to have taken place ...
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Keywords: Sea fables explained (15587574235).jpg THE LERNEAN HYDRA <br> 53 <br> Having ascertained that the octopus was a familiar <br> object in the very locality where the combat between <br> Hercules and the Hydra is supposed to have taken place <br> let us compare the animal as it exists with the monstrous <br> offspring of Typhon and Echidna <br> It is a not uncommon occurrence that when an octopus <br> is caught it is found to have one or more of its arms shorter <br> than the rest and showing marks of having been amputated <br> and of the formation of a new growth from the old cicatrix <br> Several such specimens were brought to the Brighton <br> Aquarium whilst I had charge of its Natural History <br> FIGURES OF THE OCTOPUS ON GOLD ORNAMENTS FOUND BY <br> DR SCHLIEMANN AT MYCEX « <br> Department One of them was particularly interesting Two <br> of its arms had evidently been bitten off about four inches <br> from the base and out from the end of each healed stump <br> which in proportion to the length of the limb was as if <br> a man's arm had been amputated halfway between the <br> shoulder and the elbow grew a slender little piece of newly- <br> formed arm about as large as a lady's stiletto or a small <br> button-hook ” in fact just the equivalent of worthy Captain <br> Cuttle's iron hook which did duty for his lost hand It <br> was an illustrative example of the commencement of the <br> repair and restoration of mutilated limbs <br> This mutilation is so common in some localities that 10985659 41337 10456 Page 53 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/10985659 1883 10 5962/bhl title 10456 International Fisheries Exhibition; Lee Henry NameFound Echidna NameConfirmed Echidna EOLID 24229 NameBankID 210872 NameFound Octopus NameConfirmed Octopus EOLID 38592 NameBankID 2694948 Biodiversity Heritage Library Sea fables explained Squid Octopi Monsters Are Real Folklore Ocean Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 10985659 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/10985659 bhlMonstersRreal Halloween octopus smithsonian libraries bhlmonstersrreal halloween Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-10-21 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/15587574235 2015-08-25 17 54 57 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 Octopus Sea fables explained Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script
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