Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 1, Number 4, DeMotte, Jasper County, 18 August 1932 — Octopus Has No Terror for Daring Fishermen [ARTICLE]

Octopus Has No Terror for Daring Fishermen

Few people would care to take liberties with a tiger, but still fewer would tackle an octopus with their bare hands. Some of the fishermen of southern Italy have a method of cap“terror of the seas” which volves this, and seem to think nothg of it They grip the creature between the head and the body, and are able, by a peculiar twist, to turn it inside out, thus rendering it harmless. But the methods employed by some native divers in the Pacific are stranger still. They will allow an octopus to put its tentacles round them until the creature is only attached to the rock by two of them. Then the diver jerks away the remaining tentacles, and he and the octopus come to the surface together.