119. The Greatest of the Thracian Cyclops

In the Thracian Calcidusae, near Olinthus, they say there is a place called Kentharlethras, a little larger in size than a threshing floor, and that when any other living creature reaches the spot, it departs again. Men see that in Christonia, near the country of the Bessaltai, the hairs that are captured have two livers. There is a certain place about a rude in extent, into inch, where whatever animal enters dies. The Hennity offer gifts to jackdaws who eat up their corn; but if they do not taste them, an attack will be made upon them by their enemies