The Ministry of Magic stated that a competent wizard should be able to cope with this animal, however they still officially advised wizards not to approach a Fire Crab from behind or to leave it unattended near flammable material.
įire Crabs were sold and exported as pets in places such as the Magical Menagerie, but the owners required a special licence. The Fire Crab was a protected species, and a reservation had been created to protect them from Muggles who would value the jewelled shell, as well as wizards who used the shells as cauldrons.
It was able to defend itself by shooting flames from its rear end when attacked. Occamies resemble Amphipteres from European Heraldry, and were described as serpentine creatures with either fully feathered bodies and wings or scaled bodies with semi-feathered wings.It had six legs and a heavily jewelled, multicoloured shell.The film version of the Occamy resembles Quetzalcoatl, a god of Central American myth who had the appearance of a feathered serpent.While some art depicts them as bipedal bird-like creatures, the film showed them as long and serpentine.It is currently unknown if Occamies, given their snake-like appearance, can speak Parseltongue.Rowling, since the existence of the Occamy itself (and just about every other creature described in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) has no reason to exist and came into being solely for the sake of fleshing out the aforementioned book. The word "Occamy" is derived from the name of the English philosopher Occam, who invented the methodological principle " Occam's Razor", which asserts that when evaluating two competing explanations for a situation one should accept the one that requires least assumptions to be made (or, in other words, nothing should be presumed to exist that is not absolutely necessary for explanation).Īs such, the naming of this creature as an "Occamy" is a joke on the part of J. It is unknown if Lockhart, a long-term resident of St Mungo's, recalled this failed aspiration.īy at least the 2010s, a Calamity Investigator working for the Statute of Secrecy Task Force studied the habits and environment of Occamys and Mokes in order to determine the potential similarity between their shrinking abilities. As Occamies were very territorial, it proved to be too dangerous and too expensive to supply. He wanted to mass produce the products with his secret ingredient: Occamy egg, as the main ingredient for Occamy egg yolk shampoo.
It was once Gilderoy Lockhart's ambition to create a line of haircare products, as he was very proud of his naturally bouncy and wavy hair. ĭuring the 1990–1991 school year at Hogwarts, Professor Kettleburn taught seventh-year students about how the handling of Occamies in Care of Magical Creatures. During the 1986–1987 school year, Kettleburn asked Jacob's sibling and Liz Tuttle to care for his baby Occamy Squawk while he was away, which might have been this Occamy. Īt some point during his teaching career, the Care of Magical Creatures Professor Silvanus Kettleburn brought an Occamy to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
One of them escaped, along with various other creatures, and had to be eventually tracked down and captured in the storeroom of Ginzberg Delaunay, a New York department store. Newton Scamander had several Occamies in his suitcase during his visit to New York in 1926. History īaby Occamies in Newt Scamander's suitcase It was a known possible but rare corporeal form of the Patronus Charm. The Occamy was known to be choranaptyxic, meaning it grew or shrank in order to fit available space. It was extremely protective of its eggs, which were made of the most pure and soft silver. The Occamy was extremely aggressive to anyone who approached it, and lived off of insects, rats, birds, and occasionally monkeys. It was a plumed, two-legged serpentine-bodied creature with wings that reached up to fifteen feet in height.
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