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1973, Italo Calvino, William Weaver (translator from Italian), chapter 2, in The Castle of Crossed Destinies, published 1977, part II:At his feet the solar twins have reappeared, transformed into two beings whose features are both human and animal, with horns, tail, feathers, paws, scales, linked to the rapacious character by two long threads or umbilical cords, and it is likewise probable that each of them holds on a leash two other, smaller devils that have remained outside the picture, so that from branch to branch stretches a network of ropes which the wind sways like a great cobweb, amid a flutter of black wings of decreasing size: noctules, owls, hoopoes, moths, hornets, gnats.
1973, Italo Calvino, William Weaver (translator from Italian), chapter 5, in The Castle of Crossed Destinies, published 1977, part II:When the Sabbath is caught by the first ray of the rising sun, all the witches and the vampires, incubi and succubi, take flight, some transforming themselves into noctules, some into other bats, some into still other species of Chiroptera.