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Posleen – A crocodile-headed reptilian centaur from Legacy of the Aldenata. Sumi – An animal guardian spirit with the wings of a Thunderbird and the legs of an American black bear who is the mascot of the 2010 Winter Paralympics.
Centaur – head, arms, and torso of a human, the body and legs of a horse (Greek) Cheval Gauvin – horse which tries to kill its rider (French/Swiss) Cheval Mallet; horse that tempts and kidnaps weary travelers (French) Chiron – centaur believed to be exceptional among his brethren (Greek)
Carbuncle (Latin America) – Small creature with a jewel on its head; Catoblepas (Medieval Bestiary) – Scaled buffalo-hog hybrid; Cat Sidhe – Fairy cat; Ceasg – Benevolent Scottish mermaids; Ceffyl Dŵr – Malevolent water horse; Centaur – Human-horse hybrid; Centicore – Horse-Antelope-Lion-Bear hybrid
The centaurs are portrayed as a proud, elitist group of beings that consider themselves superior to all other creatures. The fourth book also has a variation on the species called an Alcetaur, which is part man, part moose. The myth of the centaur appears in John Updike's novel The Centaur. The author depicts a rural Pennsylvanian town as seen ...
Inside the 4,000-year-old burial, researchers found nine crocodile heads, the release said. The heads were found wrapped in fabric and discarded in heaps left by earlier researchers. Remains of ...
The falcon-headed Horus and crane-headed Seth. Examples of humans with animal heads (theriocephaly) in the ancient Egyptian pantheon include jackal-headed Anubis, cobra-headed Amunet, lion-headed Sekhmet, and falcon-headed Horus. Most of these deities also have a purely zoomorphic and a purely anthropomorphic aspect, with the hybrid ...
Suppon No Yurei: A turtle-headed human ghost from Japanese mythology and folklore. Tlaloc: Aztec god depicted as a man with snake fangs. Typhon, the "father of all monsters" in Greek mythology, had a hundred snake-heads in Hesiod, [4] or else was a man from the waist up, and a mass of seething vipers from the waist down.
Crocodile "on the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo river" Just So Stories: Kipling, Rudyard: 1902 The crocodile pulls the nose of the Elephant's Child, stretching it into a trunk. [4] The eponymous crocodile The Enormous Crocodile: Dahl, Roald: 1978 The crocodile wanders the jungle planning to eat children, but is foiled by other ...