"'I can't describe it — no one could. It resembled nothing so much as a star shaped blob of transparent jelly that shimmered and changed color like an opal. It appeared to be some lower for m of animal, one-celled, not large, only about a foot in circumference when it stretched those feelers out to full length. It oozed along over the sand like a snail, groping its way with those star-points — and it hummed!'"
"'It took me about three days to trap the thing, although it gave no more actual resistance, of course, than a large snail.'"
"I saw horror — a jelly-like, opalescent thing like a five-pointed star. It pulsed and quivered for an instant, and the room fairly rocked to the unmuffled sound of that vibrant humming."
Mary Elizabeth Counselman, The Black Stone Statue
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