Catherine’s Reviews > The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul > Status Update

[Tycho] Brahe's eccentricities were widely known. He had a dwarf jester named Jepp with supposed psychic abilities who sat under his dining table during meals. For years, Brahe kept a beer-swigging pet elk in his castle. One night the elk drank too much beer, fell down a staircase, and died. It is not known if Jepp predicted this.