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<h2 id="diablo-de-los-mares">Devil of the Seas</h2>

**Marine beast** of North Atlantic legend. The monster, decidedly terrifying, was known as "The Devil of the Seas." Witnesses described it as a kind of giant ray that could also fly and even drop down onto vessels, sending them to certain shipwreck.

The account of the Abbé de Choisy in the seventeenth century adds to the traditional descriptions a pair of horns similar to those of a bull.