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may not bend but if he bear all the body about. And 

 this beast hath endless many manners and diverse colours 

 in his eyes, and full movable eyes and unsteadfast. And 

 his shadow maketh hounds leave barking, and be still, if 

 he come near them. And if this beast Hyaena goeth thrice 

 about any beast, that beast shall stint [i.e., stop] within his 

 steps. And this beast gendereth with a lioness of Ethiopia, 

 and gendereth on her a beast that is most cruel, and 

 followeth the voice of men and of tame beasts, and hath 

 many rows of teeth in every side of the mouth. This 

 beast Hyaena breedeth a stone that hight Hyaena ; and 

 what man that beareth it under his tongue, he shall by 

 virtue of that stone divine and tell what shall befall. Also 

 Hyaena hateth the panther. And if both their skins be 

 hanged together, the hair of the panther's skin shall fall 

 away. This beast Hyaena flee'th the hunter, and draweth 

 toward the right side to occupy the trace of the man that 

 goeth before ; and if he [i.e., the man] cometh not after, 

 he [the man again] goeth out of his wit, or else falleth 

 down off his horse. And if he turn against the Hyaena, 

 the beast is soon taken. And also witches use the heart 

 of this beast and the liver in many witchcrafts. 



Bartholomew (Bertbelet), bk. xviii. 61. 



IN the Hyaena itself there is a certain magical virtue 

 transporting the mind of man or woman, and ravishing 

 their senses so as that it will allure them unto her very 

 strangely. When the Hyaenas fly before the hunter and 

 would not be taken, they wind with a career out of the 

 way toward the right hand, and wheel about until the man 

 be gotten before them ; and this they do because they 

 would meet with his tracts and footing ; which if they 

 happen upon, and get behind him, you shall see the hunter 

 incontinently to be so intoxicate in his brain, that he is 

 )t able to bear his head nor sit his horse, but to fall from 

 lis back, But in case that they turn on the left hand, it 

 an evident sign that they be ready to faint, and then 

 l they quickly be taken. The sooner also and with 

 lore ease be they caught if the hunter tie his girdle about 

 lis middle with 7 knots, and the cord of his whip likewise 

 therewith he ruleth and jerketh his horse with as many, 

 "his chase after the Hyaena must be just at the very point 



