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The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead. In European literature and art, the unicorn has for the last thousand years or so been depicted as a white horse - or goat -like animal with a long straight horn with spiralling ...
A winged unicorn ( cerapter, flying unicorn, unisus, pegacorn, unipeg[ 1]) is a fictional ungulate, typically portrayed as a horse, with wings like Pegasus and the horn of a unicorn. [ 2] In some literature and media, it has been referred to as an alicorn, a word derived from the Italian word alicorno, [ 3] (itself from Latin wing āla and horn ...
Region. India, Persia. The Karkadann (Arabic كركدن karkadann or karkaddan from Kargadan, Persian: كرگدن) is a mythical creature said to have lived on the grassy plains of India and Persia . The word kargadan also means rhinoceros in Persian and Arabic. Depictions of karkadann are found also in North Indian art. [ 1]
Kuk – Kuk's male form has a frog head while his female form has a snake head. Meretseger – The cobra -headed Egyptian Goddess. Sirin – Half-bird, half-human creature with the head and chest of a woman from Russian folklore; its bird half is generally that of an owl's body. Sobek – The crocodile -headed Egyptian God.
The monoceros was first described in Pliny the Elder 's Natural History as a creature with the body of a horse, the head of a stag (minus the antlers), the feet of an elephant, and the tail of a wild boar. It has one black horn in the middle of its forehead, which is two cubits (about 1 m or 3 feet) in length, and is impossible to capture alive ...
A host of legendary creatures, animals, and mythic humanoids occur in ancient Greek mythology.Anything related to mythology is mythological. A mythological creature (also mythical or fictional entity) is a type of fictional entity, typically a hybrid, that has not been proven and that is described in folklore (including myths and legends), but may be featured in historical accounts before ...
Shadhavar. This folio from Walters manuscript W659 depicts the Aras, an animal with one horn. Shâd'havâr ( Arabic: شادهافار) or Âras (آرس) is a legendary creature from medieval Muslim bestiaries resembling a unicorn. Al-Qazwini said that it lives in the country of Rūm ( Byzantium) and that it has one horn with 42 hollow branches ...
Heraldic beasts. Medieval European legendary creatures. Medieval legends. Horses in mythology. Fantasy creatures. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.