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The Devil Whale is a legendary sea monster that was first reported by St. Brendan. According to myths, this whale is of enormous size and could swallow entire ships. It is often mentioned in children's books.
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The Devil Whale name has been attributed to the California gray whale by Japanese whalers. In 1908, a Japanese whaler related stories about hunting gray whales, which he referred to as "Kukekua Kugira" (Devil Whale) due to the difficulty and danger in hunting it.
Moby Dick is a fictional novel about a whale written by Herman Melville in 1851; subsequent studies of the book have drawn connections between the Moby Dick character and the Devil Whale.
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