Making monsters added value. They were commercially lucrative things: oddities, curiosities and rare things were very marketable. The market for monstrosity motivated the literal creation of monsters: 'mermaids' were assembled from pieces of fish, monkeys and other objects while 'ray-dragons' were created from carefully mutilated and dried rays. More @Wikipedia
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