Numina difflatur pulveris instar homo.
Robert Keuchen, Crepundia, 211.
Echinus. An echīnus, fastening itself on a ship’s keel, will arrest its motion like an anchor.--Pliny, Natural History, xxxii. 1.
Egg. The tenth egg is always the largest.
Decumana ova dicuntur, quia ovum decimum majus nascitur.--Festus.
Elephant. Elephants celebrate religious rites.--Pliny, Natural History, viii. 1.
Elephants have no knees.--Eugenius Philalethes, Brief Natural History, 89.
The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are for necessity, not for flexure.--Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, act iii. sc. 3 (1602).
Fish. If you count the number of fish you have caught, you will catch no more that day.
Frog. To meet a frog is lucky, indicating that the person is about to receive money.