INCLUDES

Large Octopus pendant with your choice of hanging options, in a black velvet jewelry bag.

SIZE

~This XL Octopus is about 2" tall x 2.25" wide (51mm x 58mm)

~The necklace chains are offered in your choice of length from 16" to 50" (40cm to 127cm)

~The earring hooks are 21 gauge earring wire (not too thick, not too thin).

~The zipper clasp is about (25mm x 8.6mm) and is made with heavy duty 16 gauge flat wire (1.4mm x .85mm)

~The keychain/backpack clasp measurements are: keychain split ring 1-3/16 OD (.187 / 30.2mm Outside Dimension). Large backpack clasp: 0.8" OD (20.5mm) it opens to about .315" (8mm)

MATERIALS

~The PENDANT is a hypoallergenic Zinc Alloy casting finished with verdigris patina over antiqued bronze; No Nickel, Lead or Cadmium.

~The CURB chains are Iron Alloy with Antiqued Bronze color finish, Lead free (Nickel content is generally less than 1%)

~The FIGARO chains are Iron Alloy with Antiqued Bronze color finish, Nickel and Lead free

~The CUBAN CURB chains are Iron Alloy with Antiqued Bronze color finish, Lead free (Nickel content is generally less than 1%).

~The 2.5mm SMALL PAPERCLIP chains are Brass Alloy metal with Antiqued Bronze color finish, No Nickel, Lead or Cadmium.

~The 3mm MEDIUM PAPERCLIP chains are Brass Alloy metal with Antiqued Bronze color finish, No Nickel, Lead or Cadmium.

~The 5mm LARGE PAPERCLIP chains are Iron Alloy with Antiqued Bronze color finish, Lead free (Nickel content is generally less than 1%).

ABOUT

ANTIQUED BRONZE with VERDIGRIS PATINA is a dark gold/brass/bronze color, with a green/aqua patina called "verdigris" added as a last step after polishing, in order to mimic the natural patina that forms on bronze as it ages. The process was specifically developed to resemble antique bronze artifacts!  Antiqued style finishings on metals are popular with cosplayers, steampunk aficionados, Goths and Neogoths, and those creating Victorian style outfits and accessories.

An OCTOPUS is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusk of the order Octopoda. The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids. Like other cephalopods, an octopus is bilaterally symmetric with two eyes and a beaked mouth at the center point of the eight limbs. The soft body can radically alter its shape, enabling octopuses to squeeze through small gaps. They trail their eight appendages behind them as they swim. The siphon is used both for respiration and for locomotion, by expelling a jet of water. Octopuses have a complex nervous system and excellent sight, and are among the most intelligent and behaviorally diverse of all invertebrates. 

Octopuses generally avoid humans, but incidents have been verified. For example, a 2.4-metre (8 ft) Pacific octopus, said to be nearly perfectly camouflaged, "lunged" at a diver and "wrangled" over his camera before it let go. Another diver recorded the encounter on video. All species are venomous, but only blue-ringed octopuses have venom that is lethal to humans. Blue-ringed octopuses are among the deadliest animals in the sea, their bites are reported each year across the animals' range from Australia to the eastern Indo-Pacific Ocean.

KRAKEN is a legendary sea monster of enormous size, etymologically akin to a squid or octopus, said to appear in the sea between Norway and Iceland. It is believed the legend of the Kraken may have originated from sightings of giant squid, which may grow to 12–15 m (40–50 feet) in length. Kraken are often a subject of sailors' superstitions and myths. The Norwegian bishop Pontoppidan (1753) was the first to describe the kraken as an octopus (polypus) of tremendous size, and wrote that it had a reputation for pulling down ships. Besides kraken, the monster went under a variety of names early on, the second to kraken being horven ("the horv"). Paleontologist Mark McMenamin and his spouse Dianna Schulte McMenamin claimed that an ancient, giant cephalopod resembling the legendary kraken caused the deaths of ichthyosaurs during the Triassic Period. Although assumed fictional and the subject of myth, the legend of the Kraken continues to the present day, with numerous references in film, literature, television, and other popular culture topics.

CTHULHU is a fictional cosmic entity created by writer H. P. Lovecraft and first introduced in the short story "The Call of Cthulhu", published in the magazine Weird Tales in 1928. Considered a Great Old One within the pantheon of Lovecraftian cosmic entities, the creature has since been featured in numerous popular culture references. Cthulhu as a gigantic entity worshipped by cultists. Though invented by Lovecraft in 1928, the name Cthulhu is probably derived from the word chthonic, derived from Classical Greek, meaning "subterranean", as apparently suggested by Lovecraft himself at the end of his 1923 tale "The Rats in the Walls". Lovecraft transcribed the pronunciation of Cthulhu as Khlûl'-hloo and said that "the first syllable pronounced gutturally and very thickly. The u is about like that in full; and the first syllable is not unlike klul in sound, hence the h represents the guttural thickness." S. T. Joshi points out, however, that Lovecraft gave several differing pronunciations on different occasions. According to Lovecraft, this is merely the closest that the human vocal apparatus can come to reproducing the syllables of an alien language. Cthulhu has also been spelled in many other ways, including Tulu, Katulu and Kutulu. The name is often preceded by the epithet Great, Dead, or Dread.

SEA MONSTERS are beings from folklore believed to dwell in the sea and are often imagined to be of immense size. Marine monsters can take many forms, including sea dragons, sea serpents, or tentacled beasts. They can be slimy and scaly and are often pictured threatening ships or spouting jets of water. Sea monster accounts are found in virtually all cultures that have contact with the sea.

CRYPTIDS are animals that cryptozoologists believe may exist somewhere in the wild, but whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated by science.

OTHER giant octopus or squid-like creatures include Leviathan as told in Christian and Hebrew theology, the Ainu Akkorokamui, the Greek Ketos (Latin Cetus), and Gorgon of ancient Greece. I'm sure there are more, but those are the ones I've heard of!