"Ancient Egyptian texts dating from 2750 BCE referred to these fish as the “Thunderer of the Nile”’
-wikipedia electricity
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Lightning snakes
This, more that likely. Lightning has been around long before man poked out of his cave. And we know that back in the days of Vikings, pretty much anything that slithered was deemed a serpent.
But lightning is this huge deathray from the gods. The fish are just very tingly and ouchy and makes you twitch.
It’s not a twitch, if I recall correctly- you get fully paralyzed and dragged under water
From what I hear, Electric Eels does more than just tingly and ouchy stuff.
Screeching Eels, duh.
Electricity was discovered by the first guy looking at a thunderstorm, so they were called “thunder fish”.
The word “electricity” was invented to describe the property of attracting straws after rubbing some wool on an “electron”, which was associated with “sunbeam” and was the Greek word for amber (which in turn got its name after people conflated the ambergris or “gray amber” derived from sperm whales, with the fossilized tree resin or “yellow amber”… and the whales got their name from whale oil or “spermaceti”… which yes, people thought was whale semen that just happened to burn great in candles).
PS: blow the candle and sweet dreams… 🌬️🕯️
Snappy snakes.
I don’t know, but that makes me wonder. Why are we still wasting time saying Electric Eel when we could say eEel?
Patent Pending Eels surely
🎶 Goin’ over to Susan’s house
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They were discovered about a decade after Ben Franklin was credited with the kite experiment, not any record AFAIK what the natives called them before then, but the word Electric was commonly used to describe objects with electrostatic charge since at least a century earlier, making the Electric Eels name fittingly more akin to the shock they give than any actual unit of conductivity or charge they hold.
It was always that name. Electricity is named after the fish.
