cacothephas

Updated: February 25, 2026

For in the ends of Egypt and of Ethiopia fast by the well where men suppose is the head of Nilus that runneth by Egypt, be bred wild beasts, that hight Cacothephas, the which beast is little of body, and uncrafty of members and slow, and hath a full heavy head.

Robert Steele - Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus