This page groups mythical creatures by whether anyone has ever claimed they were real. Wikipedia defines a legendary creature as one that "may be featured in historical accounts before modernity, but has not been scientifically shown to exist." Browsing by historicity lets a visitor separate a creature once treated as a real animal from one always understood as symbolic.
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What Defines This GroupingBeings that dwell in rivers, lakes, springs and the sea. Water is among the most widely attested dwellings of local powers, and such beings are usually tied to one named body of water rather than to a pantheon. 2 Learn More
The water spirits
This small group gathers a water spirit, a being dwelling in rivers, lakes, springs or the sea, of a kind found across the world's folklore, where water is often the home of alluring, capricious or dangerous powers.
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Historicity
Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005the article on waterView the Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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