Medieval saints were famous for their encounters with dangerous animals. In their Lives we read of confrontations with wolves, bears, stags and snakes; but also of meetings with more exotic creatures. Beachcombing thinks of St George facing down a dragon or St Brendan and his monks celebrating communion on the back of an enormous sea beast named Easter.
It is one of these more curious episodes that is sometimes (perhaps dubiously) clamed to be the first eye-witness account of the Loch Ness Monster.
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On the whole I consider it most likely that St. Columba and these men with him encountered a Master-Otter, partly for the reason that the Master-Otter is one of the few Water-Monsters that are alleged to have aggressively pursued and killed humans (probably this would mean the males and only when provoked)
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