Beast
Hydros
| Latin name: | Hydros |
| Other names: | Enhydros, Enidris, Enidros, Enydros, Ydro |
| Category: | Serpent |
A water snake that makes those bitten swell up
General Attributes
The hydros is a water serpent that causes those bitten to swell up, the cure for which is the dung of an ox. It lives in rivers but not in marshes.
The hydros is sometimes confused with the hydrus and the hydra.
Uses Magical, Medical, Alchemical and Culinary
The hydros has a stone in its head that it will vomit up if it is flayed alive; this stone is a cure for the illness called dropsy or edema (swelling due to fluid retention) and rheumatism.
