Cerberus. The hell hound with three heads, a serpent's tail, and a writhing tangle of snakes from his body

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Cerberus. The hell hound with three heads, a serpent's tail, and a writhing tangle of snakes from his body.

Animals. · Mythical animals. · Mythical beasts and hybrids. · view the constellation · filed as B15.7.1

Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Irish mythCross
GreekFox 88, 142.

Within the index

Filed under Other animals with unusual limbs or members. (Cf. B20, B142, B92.)

Filed beside it

Monster three-legged ass. Stands in the ocean. Has three feet, six eyes, nine mouths, two ears, one horn, a white body. Two eyes are in eye position, two on top of his head, two on his hump. He renders powerless by the sharpness of his eyes. He has three mouths in his head, three in his hump, and three in the inner parts of his flanks. Each mouth is the size of a cottage. (Cf. B13, B15.1, B15.2, B15.4.)Bird with head of gold and wings of silver Fox with eight-forked tail Ghormuhas: men's bodies, horses' heads, one leg, cannibals. (Cf. B21.)Three-tailed turtle Leopard with nine tails Boar with nine tusks in each jaw Cow with tallow liver Animal unusual as to skin Animal with one head, two bodies, six legs Eel with fiery mane Bird with fiery beak Bird with tail of fire Monster with 100 hands, 100 palms on each hand, and 100 nails on each palm Eagle with twelve wings and three heads

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