Map & Territory
The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong
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The Island of the Hand of Satan
Anteia had to be the island of St. Nase, also known as the Isle of the Hand of Satan. It might have been home to actual evil devils that would attack anyone stupid enough to land there. The Norse called them Skraillings and it's possible they were hostile native islanders. In 1508 Johann Roch placed a new island on his map of Newfoundland, the Isle of Demons. André Thévet describes the Isle of Demon as teeming with its eponymous monsters. From the shore one could hear 'a great clamour of men's voices confused'
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