both sides to his eares, and the head and face of a female like unto a Badgers. It is also called Martiora, which in the Parsian tongue, signifieth a devourer of men.”
Du Bartas, in “His First Week, or the Birth of the World,” mentions our friend as being created:—
“Then th’ Vnicorn, th’ Hyæna tearing tombs,
Swift Mantichor’, and Nubian Cephus comes;
Of which last three, each hath, (as heer they stand)
Man’s voice, Man’s visage, Man like foot and hand.”
It is mentioned by other writers—but I have a theory of my own about it, and that is, that it is only an idealised laughing hyæna.