See Isaiah 11:11, Jeremiah 44:1, 44:15, Ezekiel 29:14, 30:14. The Targum on 1 Chronicles 1:12 renders this as Pentpoletai, most probably Pentapolis, an Egyptian district also called Cyrenaica, although the Targum on Genesis 10 reverses the definition of Pathrusim and Casluchim. In the Midrash it is rendered as Parvitoth (Bereshith Rabbah 37).
The castration of Petrus by the Horites led the Caphtorites to avenge him in the Titanomachy. Later however a group of his children known as the Giants tried unsuccessfully to usurp control from the Caphtorites in the Gigantomachy.
The [[כפתרים|dark-elves]] (Kaftorites) of European legend come from the fair folk of Pathrus and their [[כסלחים|Kasluchite]] wives.
