This vampire which is amongst us…can command all the meaner things, the rat, and the owl, and the bat, the moth, and the fox, and the wolf, he can grow and become small, and he can at times vanish and come unknown.
– Bram Stoker
Dracula, Chapter 18. Van Helsing on the supernatural powers Count Dracula has and how he can command all the "meaner" animals at will.