Man. A person weighs more fasting than after a good meal.
The Jews maintained that man has three natures--body, soul, and spirit. Diogĕnês Laertius calls the three natures body, phrên, and thumos; and the Romans called them manês, anĭma, and umbra.
There is a nation of pygmies.
The Patagonians are of gigantic stature.
There are men with tails, as the Ghilanes, a race of men “beyond the Sennaar;” the Niam-niams, of Africa, the Narea tribes, certain others south of Herrar, in Abyssinia, and the natives in the south of Formosa.
Martin. It is unlucky to kill a martin.
Mole. Moles are blind. Hence the common expression, “Blind as a mole.”
Pray you tread softly, that the blind mole may not
Hear a footfall.
Shakespeare, The Tempest, act. iv. sc. 1 (1609).