What were electric eels called before electricity was discovered?

Indigenous people in Venezuela called the electric eel arimana, which means "something that deprives you of motion".

Early European naturalists called the electric eel the numb-eel.

The electric eel is actually a knifefish, not an eel, and is a freshwater teleost that produces electric discharges.

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