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Pages in category "Medieval European legendary creatures" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Legendary creatures from Europe, supernatural animal or paranormal entities, generally hybrids, sometimes part human (such as sirens), whose existence has not or cannot be proven. They are described in folklore (including myths and legends ), but also may be featured in historical accounts before modernity .
This is a list of medieval bestiaries. The bestiary form is commonly divided into "families," as proposed in 1928 by M. R. James and revised by Florence McCulloch in 1959–1962. Latin bestiaries
The bestiary — the medieval book of beasts — was among the most popular illuminated texts in northern Europe during the Middle Ages (about 500–1500). Medieval Christians understood every element of the world as a manifestation of God, and bestiaries largely focused on each animal's religious meaning.
The art of the Middle Ages was mainly religious, reflecting the relationship between God and man, created in His image. The animal often appears confronted or dominated by man, but a second current of thought stemming from Saint Paul and Aristotle, which developed from the 12th century onwards, includes animals and humans in the same community of living creatures.
Griffin (Europe) Lamassu (Mesopotamian) Lampago mythical heraldic beast in the form of a "man-tiger or man-lion" Leo – Lion of Cithaeron ; Nemean lion ; Lion of Al-lāt (Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia) – lion icon of Al-Lat; Manticore; Manussiha – statue with a human head and two lion hindquarters
Sassanid bowl with sitting griffin, gilted silver, from Iran.. The griffin, griffon, or gryphon (Ancient Greek: γρύψ, romanized: grýps; Classical Latin: gryps or grypus; [1] Late and Medieval Latin: [2] gryphes, grypho etc.; Old French: griffon) is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle with its talons on the front legs.
This category is for Bestiaries, compendiums of beasts. Originating in the ancient world, bestiaries were made popular in the Middle Ages in illustrated volumes that described various animals and even rocks. The natural history and illustration of each beast was usually accompanied by a moral lesson.