הַפְּרוּטִיּוֹת אֲסוּרוֹת, וְהָרַמָּךְ מֻתָּר. וְאַדְנֵי הַשָּׂדֶה, חַיָּה. רַבִּי יוֹסֵי אוֹמֵר, מְטַמְּאוֹת בָּאֹהֶל כָּאָדָם. הַקֻּפָּד וְחֻלְדַּת הַסְּנָיִים, חַיָּה. חֻלְדַּת הַסְּנָיִים, רַבִּי יוֹסֵי אוֹמֵר, בֵּית שַׁמַּאי אוֹמְרִים, מְטַמֵּא כַזַּיִת בְּמַשָּׂא, וְכָעֲדָשָׁה בְּמַגָּע:
<i>Perutiyot</i> [mules that we cannot be sure whether its mother was a horse or a donkey] are forbidden [with each other], but the <i> ramakh</i> [a mule whose mother is a horse] is permitted. <i>Adnei Hasadeh</i> [man-like creatures] are like wild animals [the laws of wild animals apply to them, i.e.they do not impart uncleanliness in a tent]. Rabbi Yosi says, They convey uncleanliness in a tent like a human being. The hedgehog and the weasel of the bushes are [considered] wild animals. [With regard to the] weasel of the bushes, Rabbi Yosi says, Beit Shammai say, the size of an olive [of its carcass renders the person carrying it] impure, and the size of a lentil [of its carcass] renders the person touching it impure.
Sefer HaChinukh
To not ask a yidaaoni: That we not ask a yidaaoni. And this matter is that the sorcerer puts a bone from an animal, the name of which is yidoaa, into his mouth, and that bone speaks through magic. And [regarding] this animal, the name of which is yidoaa, I have seen in a book from the Geonim (early post-Talmudic authorities) that (see Rash on Mishnah Kilayim 8:5) it grows with a large cord that comes out of the ground, similar to the cord of squash and pumpkins, its form is like the form of a man in everything - in the face, the body, the hands and the feet - and it is connected to the cord from its navel. And no creature can approach for the cord's length, since it grazes around it like the length of the cord, and it devours all that it can reach. And when they come to hunt it, they shoot arrows into its cord, until it is separated, and [then] it dies immediately. And in Talmud Yerushalmi Kilayim 8:4, they, may their memory be blessed, said in explanation of "For your covenant will be with the rocks of the field" (Job 5:23), "It is a man of the mountain, and it lives from its navel. If its navel is separated, it does not live."
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