European Orientalist travelers claimed human-animal hybrids roamed Egypt

Evidence

European travelers in the Orient also claimed that human/animal hybrids roamed the land and water. In Egypt they claimed to have observed a human/crocodile hybrid, which is not the only Muslim monster that occupies the Orient. With a few exceptions, the monsters of Orientalism are radically different from their predecessors-human-animal hybrids, sea monsters, and the like were replaced by images of Muslim men as morally depraved and hyper-violent villains. This was not the end of monsters, but rather a transitory period that re-defined them: The consequence of this [Enlightenment] critique is not the disappearance of the monster. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 378

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the shift from supernatural to moral monsters that the reader is tracking across chapters 8 and 9 as the manufacture of the Muslim monster.