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Is this creature definitely a sea serpent? Because it also looks like a Kelpie to me. I personally don't know the source well enough to say for certain though.RedWizard98 (talk) 02:44, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
- Hi there! Great question. I think the lack of certainty is probably why it got removed from the actual Sea serpent article, after it made an appearance in Fantastic Beasts: Cases from the Wizarding World? Prior to that it seems like there were no known images. You can invite Logo8th over here to see if they had info that we missed, or if they simply assumed the creature in this image to be it. (To be clear, I personally don't know if it's a sea serpent or not.) --Sammm✦✧(talk) 03:02, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
- I agree that it should be a Kelpie (reason said in the edit summary of this revision) MalchonC (talk) 12:02, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
- In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, sea serpents are described to have "a horse-like head and a long snake-like body that rises in humps out of the sea". Then for a kelpie, it says that it was a "water demon" that "can take various shapes, though it most often appears as a horse with bulrushes for a mane", and that "Its favourite form is that of a sea serpent". So the reason for undoing my edit was wrong. Even though sea serpents don't shapeshift, kelpies do. They both have a distinctive head of a horse.