Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
Introduction--"A Description of 300 Animals"--Unicorn--The Bible Unicorn--The Heraldic Unicorn--The Horn as a Poison Test--The Unicorn of Mediæval Legend--Wolf Causing Dumbness--The Rompo or Man-Eater--The Manticora--The Lamia--Stag Antipathies--Dragons-- Dragon-Slaying--Legen...
should be a brazier by his face, for, o' my conscience, twenty of the dog-days now reign in his nose: all that stand about him are under the line, they need no further penance....
5. Book IV. of the treatise is devoted to the consideration of serpentsand insects. Amongst serpents and insects the dragon naturally takes the place of honour. The writer evidently has his doubts, and carefully qualifies his description by a free...
6. CHAPTER II.The Sphinx--The Chimæra--The Centaurs--The Origin of the Myth--The Onocentaur--Sagittarius--Satyrs and Fauns--The Harpys, described by Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Milton, and ot...
4. CHAPTER I.Introduction--"A Description of 300 Animals"--Unicorn--The Bible Unicorn--The Heraldic Unicorn--The Horn as a Poison Test--The Unicorn of Mediæval Legend--Wolf Causing Dumbness-...
7. CHAPTER III.Comparatively Small Number of Mythical Bird-Forms--The Martlet--The Bird of Paradise--The Humma--The Huppe--The Ibis--The Roc--The Hameh Bird--Reptiles, Fish, &c.--The Sea-Serpe...
3. CHAPTER III.Comparatively Small Number of Mythical Bird-Forms--The Martlet--The Bird of Paradise--The Humma--The Huppe--The Ibis--The Roc--The Hameh Bird--Reptiles, Fish, &c.--The Sea-Serpe...
1. CHAPTER I.Introduction--"A Description of 300 Animals"--Unicorn--The Bible Unicorn--The Heraldic Unicorn--The Horn as a Poison Test--The Unicorn of Mediæval Legend--Wolf Causing Dumbness-...
2. CHAPTER II.The Sphinx--The Chimæra--The Centaurs--The Origin of the Myth--The Onocentaur--Sagittarius--Satyrs and Fauns--The Harpys, described by Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Milton, and ot...