Hostile animals — Mythoi

Motif

Hostile animals.

Animals. · Mythical animals. · Mythical beasts and hybrids. · view the constellation · filed as B17

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XLIX XLIX. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 9, Section 20
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 3, Section CLXLIX
Literary Crystallization Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None , Chapter 55 LV. THE SPIRIT OF GRAVITY.

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Mythical beasts and hybrids.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Hostile beasts Other hostile animals

Filed beside it

Dragon Basilisk. A mythical lizard or serpent whose hissing drives away all other serpents Unicorn. (Cf. B15.7.2.) Other hybrid animals Animals with unusual limbs or members Devastating animals Behemoth: mythical gigantic animal Other mythical beasts

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