The Strangeness of the Vegetable Lamb of Tartar

In its most elaborate form it seems like such a contradiction to our other tales of the fantastic so many creatures you encounter in a medieval bestiary or any kind of folklore mythology are wilder and more dangerous. This is a thing that is like the domestic lamb made even more harmless, he says. The hunters who went in search of this creature were unable to capture or remove it until they had succeeded in cutting the stem by well aimed arrows or darts when the animal immediately fell prostrate to the earth and diedIts bones being placed with certain ceremonies and incantations in the mouth of one desiring to foretell the future he was instantly seized with a spirit of divination and endowed with the gift