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illmamnim
Ship figureheads were made to ward off dangerous mermaids.
Because mermaids can grow to be gigantic, they assess each other based on size. By adding a figurehead, mermaids would mistake the entire ship to be a scary deep-sea mermaid – leaving the crew and vessel alone.
However having a ship figurehead can lure actual scary deep-sea mermaids.
Many “kraken” attacks are just deep-sea mermaids giving a tentacled greeting to the strange, lonely, wood covered mermaid carrying humans on its back. Unfortunately, their tentacled “handshake” destroys the ship, leaving the traumatized mermaid believing they had murdered their own kin.
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