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Whale

The whale spends so much time at the surface of the ocean that sand accumulates on its back. Sailors mistake the whale for an island and land on it to rest, but when they light a cooking fire the whale feals the heat and dives, drowning the sailors.

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Digital Walters Art Museum

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Private Library - Unknown Owner, ex-Phillipps MS 6739 (Bestiaire of Pierre de Beauvais, long version), folio 33r

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