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The Natural History of Fabulous Animals Peter Costello. CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE MANTICORA The manticora is another of those animals , originally classical , that passed into the bestiaries , and from them into the works of the early ...
The Natural History of Fabulous Animals Peter Costello. CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE MANTICORA The manticora is another of those animals , originally classical , that passed into the bestiaries , and from them into the works of the early ...
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... manticora was the subject of a paper he published in 1884. Pausanias and others had suggested that the manticora was the Indian tiger , but no one had explained how the description given by Ctesias , which seems quite fantastic , fitted ...
... manticora was the subject of a paper he published in 1884. Pausanias and others had suggested that the manticora was the Indian tiger , but no one had explained how the description given by Ctesias , which seems quite fantastic , fitted ...
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... manticora , Hunt confesses , ' cost me many a bitter night ' , and in his childhood terror we can catch something of the terror the beast must have inspired in medieval Europe . For not only he has confessed to being frightened by it ...
... manticora , Hunt confesses , ' cost me many a bitter night ' , and in his childhood terror we can catch something of the terror the beast must have inspired in medieval Europe . For not only he has confessed to being frightened by it ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Animals and Man 1 Animals and Man 74 | 5 |
Shaman into Scientist ΙΟ | 10 |
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