Exod. 3:14

Abstract

Very interesting in connection with Dr. Godbey's essay on the unicorn and detection of poison by means of its horn is what KaBgari reports in his Diwan Lu'dt al-Turk, III, 164, 9-12. K~Sgari knew wares and ideas current among the Turks in the eleventh century A.D. as did few others. Defining the Turkish word Catuq, he says: "The horn of a deep-sea fish, which is imported from China. Some say, it is the root of a tree, from which knife-handles are made. By it poison is tested, when it is in food. The broth or whatever it may be is stirred with it in a wooden bowl, and the food boils without fire; or this horn is placed on a bowl, and it sweats without steam."