Spittle Bone

The Spittle Bone is an enemy in the Castlevania series. It is a four-legged skeleton that crawls on walls.
==Origins==
According to ancient and medieval authors, the Artibatirae were an Ethiopian tribe of abnormal humans which walked on all fours and roared like animals. They were first described by the Roman historian Pliny the Elder in his encyclopedic work Naturalis Historia from AD 77. According to most surviving accounts, neither the Artibatirae nor any other similar monstrous humanoid races lived to be 40 years old.
The Artibatiraes don't appear very often in medieval writings. There are also few known images of this people and these are mostly found in the galleries of monstrous tribes adjacent to bestiaries. In some of the illustrated lists of On the Universe by Raban Mavr, we can also find Artibatiraes. They are usually depicted either as a bent man or a naked man on all fours, and in at least one case they were confused with the Himantopodes, another monstrous race which crawled instead.Артабатиты at Bestiary.us.
==Description==
A four-legged crawling skeleton that incessantly moves along the surface it is affixed to, making loops endlessly unless destroyed. In some games it drips poison, while in others it breathes flames in a steady stream outward. 
The Vice Beetle is a similar enemy that breathes out clouds of poison.
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==Gallery==
Dxc 009.png|Spittle Bone enemy list entry from The Dracula X Chronicles version of Symphony of the Night.
Spittle Bone MR.jpg|"Spittle Bone" artwork from Moonlight Rhapsody.
==See also==
*Crawling Skulls
*Vice Beetle
==References==
==External links==
*Артабатиты at Bestiary.us
*Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin - Bestiary by Darth Nemesis at GameFAQs
Category:African Monsters
Category:Fire Enemies
Category:Poison Enemies
Category:Skeletal Monsters
Category:The Dracula X Chronicles Enemies
Category:Grimoire of Souls Enemies
Category:Harmony of Despair Enemies
Category:Moonlight Rhapsody Enemies
Category:Portrait of Ruin Enemies
Category:Symphony of the Night Enemies