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in 1531. It refused to eat and died after three days. It was described and pictured in the fourth volume of
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Specula physico-mathematico-historica notabilium ac mirabilium sciendorum
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reported in the 16th century. According to legend, it was taken to the
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believed the report was based on the discovery of a large mutilated
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The Reader's Digest Book of Strange Stories, Amazing Facts 1976,
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The Kraken and the Colossal Octopus: In the Wake of Sea-Monsters
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Johann Zahn
sea monster
King of Poland
Catholic
bishops
sign of the cross
Germany
Conrad Gesner
Historiae animalium
Bernard Heuvelmans
Grimaldi scaled squid
Oannes (mythology)
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Sea monk
Gesner, C.
Historiae Animalium

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