A zitiron as represented in an illuminated manuscript of Jacob van Maerlant’s poem “Der Naturen Bloeme”, c. 1350 Wikimedia Commons
A zitiron, or sea knight, is a mythological creature with an upper body in the form of an armed knight, fused with the tail of a fish.[1] The sea bishop and the sea monk are similar creatures that appear in Caspar Schott’s Physica Curia (1662).[2]
It was once believed that everything that exists on earth must have its equivalent in the sea.[1]
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