1 The giant octopus seems to live in the Pacific Ocean, not Europe. So giant octopus only appears in Japanese spring paintings. Europe and America may all depict giant squid. (This mistake, there is a so-called "Kraken Tentacles Of The Deep" in Nordic legends, that is, the giant octopus monster will attack ships, see 3).

In Greek mythology, Scylla is half human and half octopus, but half human is female.

The first famous scene in modern pop culture, "Sacrifice to a Man at the Tentacle", may be attributed to two Wan Li under the sea. A male crew member of Nautilus was dragged into the sea in a scuffle with a giant cephalopod, and the tragic death was in French (Nautilus was stateless and used either South Asian or artificial language), which aroused the emotion of the first-person narrator (French).

Modern Japanese think octopus looks funny and clumsy, so they use "octopus" as a soft slang for "idiot and pig head".

Octopus can be yellow, but it can also be violent

But the octopus is on the north shore of the Mediterranean (burning/pickling musk octopus, frying octopus pasta. North Africa, south of the Mediterranean, has an industry of catching octopus for export, but the locals have no tradition of eating octopus. ) and the coastal areas of northeast Asia (onion mixed with eight belts, octopus sashimi, octopus baked) are common foods, which are hard to be awed.

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