He particularly relished the flesh of serpents and would quickly devour the largest.

In the presence of Lorenze he seized a live cat with his teeth, eventrated it, sucked its blood, and ate it, leaving the bare skeleton only.

In about thirty minutes he rejected the hairs in the manner of birds of prey and carnivorous animals.

He also ate dogs in the same manner.

On one occasion it was said that he swallowed a living eel without chewing it; but he had first bitten off its head.