The WEASEL, finding the lair of the basilisk, kills it with the smell of its urine, and this smell, indeed, often kills the weasel itself.

The AMPHISBOENA has two heads, one in its proper place, the other at the tail; as if one place were not enough from which to fling its venom.

DRAGONS. These go in companies together, and they twine themselves after the manner of roots, and with their heads raised they cross lakes, and swim to where they find better pasture; and if they did not thus combine they would be drowned, therefore they combine.

CATOBLEPAS. It is found in Ethiopia near to the source Nigricapo. It is not a very large animal, is sluggish in all its parts, and its head is so large that it carries it with difficulty, in such wise that it always droops towards the ground; otherwise, it would be a great pest to man, for any one on whom it fixes its eyes dies immediately.

The bestiary of LEONARDO DA VINCI

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