 Xanthius thus sees (or pretends to see) the empousa transform into a bull, a mule, a beautiful woman, and a dog.The slave also reassures that the being indeed had one brass (copper) leg, and another leg of cow dung besides.The Empusa was a being sent by Hecate (as one scholiast noted), or, was Hecate herself, according to a fragment of Aristophanes's lost play "Tagenistae" ("Men of the Frying-pan"), as preserved in the Venetus.