animalSalamanderBeings · NatureSalamander as an animal people have named and used. Immortality, Secrets, Transformation — one living kind, not a single symbol.Salamander is used in Medicine.Pliny’s Natural History treats the salamander among animals of fire-lore and drug speech in Roman encyclopedic chapters. A named salamander in that encyclopedia, not a modern amphibian checklist alone and not a heraldic dump.from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CEused in · sourced · documentedsourcesNatural History · Pliny the ElderPliny, Naturalis Historia.