Griffin. Half lion, half eagle — Mythoi

Motif

Griffin. Half lion, half eagle.

Animals. · Mythical animals. · Bird-beasts. · view the constellation · filed as B42

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
Icel. *Boberg
Jewish Neuman.
general *Chauvin VII 13 No. 313B
general *Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 1129f.
general Penzer I 104, 141 n. 2

Within the index

Filed under Bird-beasts.

1 finer motif beneath it

Hippogriff. Horse with fore-quarters of griffin

Filed beside it

Bird-horse Winged bull Bird-bear Air-going elephant Vasa Mortis. Bird with four heads, middle like a whale, feathers and feet of a griffin Winged camel Flying crustacean. (Cf. B62, B94.) Bird-beasts – miscellaneous

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Griffin as guardian of treasure. (Cf. B42.)

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