TORCHINGS OF TETHERS, POTSHOTS AT ARTERIES: A PICKLER'S GUIDE TO THE HIGHWAY

"There is an animal whose name is Yadu'a ["Known"]... which grows like cucumbers and gourds from the earth, to which it is attached at the navel by a kind of big rope which comes from a root. The Yadu'a is like a man in the shape of its face and in the shape of its other [sic] limbs. No creature can approach it, for it tears everything to pieces and grazes everything around it as far as its rope will reach. When they come to hunt it they shoot at the rope from a distance, and when the rope breaks the Yadu'a instantly dies."

--Shabbatai Bass, Sifte Khakhamin