"Shocking and uncouth black things with smooth, oily, whale-like surfaces, unpleasant horns that curve inward toward each other, bat wings whose beating makes no sound, ugly prehensile paws, and barbed tails that lash needlessly and disquietingly.  And worst of all, they never speak because they have no faces, but only a suggestive blankness where a face ought to be."

                                                                   - Clavis Solomanus (translated by Scott Theobald)