![]() ![]() ![]() In all, the monsters and the myths only help to blur the lines between the fact and the fiction of the Golden Age of Piracy.Ĭlick on the Serpent to return to the table of contents or just scroll down to read all! The point of the page is not to de-bunk the myth only to explain them.īelow are some of the most common monsters and myths. This page will try to explain the origin of some of these myths. Other parts of pirate mythos comes from the minds of great story tellers, long after the Golden Age of Piracy had come to a close. As the quote above suggests, most learned men were skeptical of the more rousing tales of seafarers. Some of the myths about the sea and pirates have been part of the human story for thousands of years. Pirate fiction probably could not exist without the myths, monsters and other imagined mayhem that has ravaged the seas since man first ventured upon it. *Credulity: Over-readiness to believe disposition to believe on weak or insufficient grounds. Oliver Goldsmith: A History of the Earth and Animated Nature (Natural History), 1774. ![]() “To believe all that has been said of the sea-serpent, or the Kraken, would be credulity*”. ![]()
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