animal, saying: 'My inhcritance is made for mc like the
cave of the Yena'. Yes, those of you who serve wantonness
and avarice are compared to this monster.
  Since they are neither male nor female, they are
neither faithful nor pagan, but are obviously the people
concerning whom Solomon said: 'A man of double mind
is inconstant in all his ways'       About whom also the Lord
said: 'Thou canst not serve God and Mammon'.

  This beast has a stone in its eye, also called an Yena,
which is believed to make a person able to foresee the
future if he keeps it under his tongue. It is true that if an
Yena walks round any animal three times, the animal can-
not move.    For this reason they affirm that it has some
sort of magic skill about it.
  In part of Ethiopia it copulates with a lioness, from
whence is born a monster known as a Crotote.1 This can
produce the voices of humans in the same way. It is said
not to be able to turn its eyes backward, owing to its
rigid backbone, and to be blind in that direction unless
it turns round. It has no gums in its mouth. It has one
rigid tooth-bone all the way along, which shuts like a
little box, so that it cannot be blunted by anything.
  1 Leucrota (q.v.). Other names for derivatives of the hyaena species were
Rosomacha,  Crocuta,  Corocotta, Leucrocuta, Akabo, Aizabo,        Zabo,
Ana,
Belbus, Lupus vesperitinus, Zilis and Lacta. Shakespeare calls it a Hyen.
'J
will laugh like a hyen, and that when thou art inclined to sleep.' is Tou
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