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Non-Jews also knew of the Ziz. [[Johannes Buxtorf]]'s 1603 ''Synagoga Judaica'' discusses the Ziz.<ref>{{cite book |last=Buxtorf |first=Johannes |title=Synagoga Judaica |year=1603 |publisher=Sebastianus Henricpetrus |location=Basel|pages=36, 335, 649–654 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l5oPAAAAQAAJ}}</ref> His text is echoed in English by Samuel Purchas in 1613:<ref>{{cite book |last=Purchas |first=Samuel |title=Purchas, His Pilgrimage; or, Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages |year=1614 |publisher=William Stansby |location=London |pages=[https://archive.org/details/purchashispilgri00purc/page/222 222]–223 |url=https://archive.org/details/purchashispilgri00purc}}</ref>
{{quote|''[[Elia Levita|Elias Leuita]]'' reporteth of a huge huge bird, also called ''Bariuchne'', to be rosted at this feast; of which the Talmud saith, that an egge sometime falling out of her nest, did ouerthrow and breake downe three hundred tall Cedars; with which fall the egge being broken, ouerflowed and carried away sixtie Villages... But to take view of other strange creatures, make roome, I pray, for another Rabbi with his Bird; and a great deale of roome you will say is requisite: Rabbi ''Kimchi'' on the 50. Psalme auerreth out of Rabbi ''Iehudah'', that ''Ziz'' is a bird so great, that with spreading abroad his wings, he hideth the Sunne, and darkeneth all the world. And (to leape back into the Talmud) a certaine Rabbi sayling on the Sea, saw a bird in the middle of the Sea, so high, that the water reached but to her knees; whereupon he wished his companions there to wash, because it was so shallow; ''Doe it not'' (saith a voyce from heauen) for it is seuen yeares space since a Hatchet, by chance falling out of a mans hand in this place, and alwayes descending, is not yet come at the bottome.|me}}
[[Humphrey Prideaux]] in 1698 describes the Ziz as being like a giant celestial rooster:
