The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition by al-Nuwayri Shihab al-Din

Author:al-Nuwayri, Shihab al-Din [al-Nuwayri, Shihab al-Din]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-08-29T16:00:00+00:00

ON VENOMOUS CREATURES THAT ARE NOT DEADLY

These include the dung beetle, the gecko, the thorn-tail lizard, the weasel, the chameleon, the hedgehog, mice and rats, ticks, ants, grubs, lice, and nits.

The Beetle

They say that beetles are born from putrid earth. There are different types, among them the well-known dung beetle and also the black beetle, which is born from cattle dung. It dies if it smells perfume or if it is buried in roses. If it is then unearthed and buried in horse dung, it will live. What is most likely is that they don’t die but simply go numb and stop moving, and if they are treated with the substance that they are generated from, they are strengthened again. And God knows best.

Among the kinds of beetles is the wood louse, which is born from moist places and mostly in bathhouses and fountains. It is found in different colors, including black, chestnut, and white. A poet once said, describing the wood louse:

Wood lice are a species never described

By anyone as I have described them

Like the halves of unripe red dates set aside

After being split, their stems still on them

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