μῦθοι Mythoi
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  • Irish mythCross.
Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it
Bird with beak of iron
Filed beside it
Cerberus. The hell hound with three heads, a serpent's tail, and a writhing tangle of snakes from his bodyMonster 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 silverFox with eight-forked tailGhormuhas: men's bodies, horses' heads, one leg, cannibals. (Cf. B21.)Three-tailed turtleLeopard with nine tailsBoar with nine tusks in each jawCow with tallow liverAnimal unusual as to skinAnimal with one head, two bodies, six legsEel with fiery maneBird with tail of fireMonster with 100 hands, 100 palms on each hand, and 100 nails on each palmEagle with twelve wings and three heads

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