3000 BC

Hieroglyphica of Horapollo

Electric Catfish in the Nile

The Hieroglyphica of Horapollo used a hieroglyph of an electric catfish to refer to a "man who had saved many in the sea". It is believed that the ancient Egyptians considered the electric catfish the protector of fish because if one was caught in a net and let off a charge the fisherman would drop the net and all the fish caught in it would escape.

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