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A Real “Devil Fish”-Victor Hugo’s Narrative Matched.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 23, 1867

Readers of M. Victor Hugo’s “Toilers of the Sea,” will remember the terrible narrative of the fisherman Gilliatt’s encounter with the octopus or sea-devil, who winds his horrible suckers round his victim, and gradually draws away his life’s blood. The poet novelist has been accused of exaggeration in this incident, but according to Mr. Lord, […]

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Beset By Octopuses.

Thursday, October 20, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 11, 1907

    The crew of the Perle, a French fishing boat, was about to pull a big net in when they encountered a sudden resistance and found that the net was simply crammed, not with good mackerel, but with dozens of octopuses, each provided with tentacles more than six feet in length. The poor men had […]

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The Bull And The Devil Fish.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 29, 1879

A combat on the margin of the sea between Spain’s favorite and monsterous octopi. Tokeo [Japan] Times.      The story given below was communicated by a correspondent; “The author of “Schuykidan” who lived some sixty years ago, was once traveling in Mutta, one of the northern provinces. Walking one day near the beach he heard […]

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