Erumpent

An erumpent is a huge African magical beast.

Description
Erumpents resemble a rhinoceros with a roundish body. They are powerful creatures with thick hides capable of repelling most curses and charms, a single long horn, and a thick tail. They are treated with great caution and respect by African witches.

Erumpents do not attack unless provoked, but the results are usually fatal when they do attack. The horn is capable of piercing skin and metal and contains a deadly fluid that causes whatever was injected with it to explode. There have been rare occasions when the injected object or being did not explod, as in the case of Wilfred Elphick, the first witch to have been gored by an erumpent.

Erumpent numbers are not large because male erumpents frequently blow themselves up during mating season. Female erumpents also only give birth to one calf at a time.