HY ANA, | NATURAL HISTORY. 163 
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 Hyzna goeth thrice 
about any beast, that beast shall stint [#.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 Hyzna breedeth a stone that hight Hyena; and 
what man that beareth it under his tongue, he shall by 
virtue of that stone divine and tell what shall befall. Also 
Hyena hateth the panther. And if both their skins be 
hanged together, the hair of the panther’s skin shall fall 
away. This beast Hyzna fleéth the hunter, and draweth 
toward the right side to occupy the trace of the man that 
goeth before; and if he [z.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 Hyena, 
the beast is soon taken. And also witches use the heart 
of this beast and the liver in many witchcrafts. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 61. 
In the Hyena 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 Hyznas 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 
not able to bear his head nor sit his horse, but to fall from 
his back. But in case that they turn on the left hand, it 
is an evident sign that they be ready to faint, and then 
will they quickly be taken. The sooner also and with 
more ease be they caught if the hunter tie his girdie about 
his middle with 7 knots, and the cord of his whip likewise 
wherewith he ruleth and jerketh his horse with as many. 
This chase after the Hyena must be just at the very point 
