Posts Tagged: mix-and-match creatures
The Questing Beast is a creature that several knights in Arthurian legends went on quests to kill. The name, however, comes from the sound it makes, which is a barking described as the sound of “thirty couple hounds questing.” I imagine these brave knights (King Pellinore, Sir Palamedes, and Sir Percival) were pretty nervous about … Read the rest →
The winged horse, Pegasus, was created by the Greek god Poseidon and Medusa (he sprung from her neck after Perseus took her snake-haired head). The Greek hero Bellerophon captured Pegasus with a little help from Poseidon and Athena. Then he rode the winged horse to defeat Chimera. (The movie Clash of the Titans didn’t follow … Read the rest →
The Ophiotaurus is half bull (taurus) and half serpent (ophio). Next to the hippocampi, this is one of my mermaid’s favorite mythological sea creatures. In Greek mythology, the creature was created in the chaos with Gaea and Ouranos and killed by the Titans. Its entrails (ewwwww, gross) granted the power to defeat the gods to … Read the rest →