«Their forms are horrible, their heads square, all set with prickles and surrounded by long sharp horns like the roots of an upturned tree: these heads are ten or twelve cubits long, very black, with huge globular eyes...». The legends about the Kraken were always frightening, but also very exciting to people. But let’s remember, who started spreading these stories? Sailors. Stories about heroic battles with monsters in almost a hundred percent of cases involved merchant ships. And coincidentally, after meeting the Kraken, many sailors became fabulously rich. In this video, you will find out: what did the Kraken really look like? What legends about the Kraken are told in the twenty-first century? And most importantly, we’ll figure out why did the sailors invent the Kraken?