Vultures

“The [...] kills wild bulls in the foothills, and it kills the stags in the high mountains.”

“The Vulture is a Patient Bird”

“I think it was his eye, yes, it was this! One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture— a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees - very gradually - I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus myself rid of the eye forever.”