Beast

Hemtra


Latin name: Hemtra
Other names: Emptra, Eniptra, Eniptra, Entira, Entyra, Entyria
Category: Beast

Very small animals in Germany

General Attributes

The hemtra appears in some medieval encyclopedias. It is a very small animal that lives in parts of Germany. The male and the female gather food in the summer, with which they live in the winter. They store this food by making heaps on the ground. The female and male have different dispositions: the female is greedy and the male is parsimonious, which causes conflict over how much food each gets.

Reality

Possibly the marmot (Scanlan, page 141).