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Panotti (Medieval Bestiaries)

The Panotti (also called Phanesii, Panotii and Panotioi, for "all ears") were a mythical race of people, described as possessing large ears that covered their entire bodies. In AD 77–79, the classical writer Pliny the Elder published his thirty-seven volumes of encyclopedic works known as the Natural History containing entries of both the real and the imaginative.

In the Natural History, Pliny writes about the strange race of people known as the Panotti who live in the "All-Ears Islands" off of Scythia. These people there have bizarrely large ears that are so huge that the Panotti use them as blankets to shield their body against the chills of the night. Their ears were used in lieu of clothing.